WHY VALENTINE'S DAY

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Every festival we celebrate has a reason or a story behind that inspires us to celebrate that festival.
As others, Valentine’s day too have a story behind but some of our people has completely changed the meaning and purpose of this day.
It is the day when people show their affection for another person or people by sending cards, flowers  or chocolates with message of love.
The day gets it’s name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The popular beliefs about St. Valentine’s is that he was a priest  from Rome in the third century AD.
Emperor Claudis II has banned marriage because he thought married man were bad soldiers. Valentine felt this was unfair, so he broke the rules and arranged marriage in secret.
When Claudis found out, Valentine was thrown in jail and sentenced to death.
There he fell in love with the jailors daughter and when he was taken to be killed on 14 February- he sent her a love letter signed “from your Valentine”.
So, having a particular Valentine’s day is a very old tradition, thought to have originated from a Roman festival.
It’s thought that as part of celebrations, boys drew names of girls from a box. They’d be
boyfriend/girlfriend during the festival and sometimes they’d get married.
Later on, the church wanted to turn this festival into a Christian celebration and decide to use it to remember St. Valentine too.
Gradually, St. Valentines name started to be used by people to express their feelings to those they loved.
The celebration of Valentine’s Day in India began to become popular following the economic libralisation. There have been protests against the celebration by the groups who consider it a western influence.
The  Valentine day is not just confined to youth or teen age, rather it’s just to make the ‘bond’ or the ’knot’ of a relationship strong. It is simply a day when people take out  time from  their busy schedule to express their feelings or love for each other .This day has no-hard core, ill motive or unethical desire to hurt anyone in person or religion.
Just like other festivals, its main motive is to bring happiness and cheerfulness in human life. It is similar to other festivals where we take a break from our routine life and become socially active.
But, in this scenario it has become a social system to have a girlfriend/boyfriend. Teens are more concentrating on this aspect instead of other valuable traits of life. They become so desperate to be in relationship that they end up with frustration and get involved in unfair practices like taking drugs and they get involved in pre marital sex, which somewhere ruins their life. After taking such a step they find themselves lying in utter darkness.
Basically Indian festivals involve family and not just couples. On the other hand, even with some of these festivals various unwanted elements are attached and there is no opposition to those.
So actually what matters the most is the way in which the festivals are celebrated rather their name and origin. Just like rights and duty go hand in hand so does the celebration of any festival and its limit. Youth celebrating valentine day should not forget that the society in which they are living is undergoing a transformation and there are many bad elements in the society that takes full advantage of such days. For them love means physical and not more than this. If this is the intention then it is true that not only valentine but any such festival is against Indian Culture.
Moreover, we are not open society and when we openly confess such things then these are considered wrong. But if the Valentine day is celebrated with a good spirit of festival, we spend time with our loved one’s ,there is nothing wrong in this.
So, people should celebrate this day with family, friends and their loved ones by spreading happiness and harmony among all.    
Love is not about finding the right person,but creating a right relationship with your loved ones. Its not how much love you have in the beginning but how much you build till the end.
That really what a Valentine day is....

Comments

  1. Priyanshu Siraswal13 February 2018 at 19:52

    Absolutely True. Indeed every festival brings a message of peace, love, happiness and unity in human life.Every festival has a true way of celebration that involves family and provides a way to spend time with loved ones. But people with evil thoughts have destroyed that sense of spirituality. Maybe Its because of lack of moral values.

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