Wednesday, February 14, 2007 @7:06 PM
Named After A Christian Martyr
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The amount of gifts and letters sent on this day is so significant that it was made the second largest gift-giving holiday of the year, after Christmas. This uncanny day became associated with romantic love in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. Through the ages of time, this habitual day of exquisite dating soon cultivated into more than a global holiday, and into a culture. A tradition. Acknowledged by copious countries worldwide, this is the day worth celebrating, at least for stereotypes...
People, principally female, carried a lot of "gifts" that seemed to be "given" to them and it looked VERY expensive, like plastic transparent roses which petals were abounded with a runny and dyed fluid that you could purchase at any shoddy bookshop. It takes one to wonder, if the "gifts" that they were flaunting ever so condescendingly were not given by a male guest, but a female friend, who's intent was having a gift-exchange kind of thing between themselves. Anyway, this is sounding quite absurd already. Call it intuition. Or an instinct. Or maybe just a stupid guess.
It appeared quaint and droll to me why females get so animated over a day like this. It wasn't just any day, it was a WEDNESDAY. It seemed apparent to me that they must have thought about this upcoming day, what they should do, what they would do. To an ignorant individual, it may seem pointless to carry out all that drudgery. I mean, its a WEDNESDAY.I was both impressed and inspired by the works of countless youths in the Royal Commonwealth Society's Essay Competition. Simply astounding and beyond belief. The year before, I did not really bother about attaining a place in the prestigious archive of the company. But I would appreciate it if I made it through. Really.
realise that no "Valentine" was being mentioned, byelionel...