Valentine oh valentine

Adoration or irritation...


February 14th, hearts, pink, red, flowers, plush, chocolate, cards, poems. Weeks before you know it’ll be the day of (secret) love.
Valentine’s day, goes way back, Saint Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration, celebrating love and affection between ‘sexual lovers’. Today it’s more about showing your love for each other, especially your secret love. Even at schools they give kids the opportunity to send each other cards, flowers and so on. It’s a big hype, and if you’re not celebrating, you’re not cool.

Valentine’s day is one of those days, that flowers cost more than usually, but everybody still wants to buy it. Companies earn big money on days like this.
Fact: Today, Hallmark employs an 80-person research staff to analyze the sales pattern of previous valentines. That analysis, combined with more than 100,000 annual customer interviews, focus groups and in-store observations, will help create roughly 2,000 cards in Hallmark's core Valentine's Day line.

But why? Why do we spend so much money, on a set day? If you really love someone, you might just want to surprise them any time of the year! Show people you love and care, every day, any day! The world is full of hate, we should celebrate love as much as we can, and maybe someday, we can forget about all the negativity.

Valentine’s day works for people who share their heart with someone, or at least try to share the feeling. But also on this day you’ll see a lot of sad faces. People will be reminded of the fact that they’re alone, and some will even turn themselves against everything a day like this. So there’s the hate again. It seems it’s all about loving and be loved.

Valentine’s day…all cool and lovely, right?
Just some facts:


The heart symbol that we use to express our love, doesn’t look like our heart, bouncing in our chest. The red color is the color of blood though. But the shape of the heart could be considered to depict features of the human female body, such as the female's butt, pubic mound, or spread vulva.

15 percent of U.S. women send themselves flowers on Valentine's Day.

More at-home pregnancy tests are sold in March than in any other month.

Penicillin, a popular treatment for venereal diseases such as syphilis, was introduced to the world on February 14, 1929.

The roots of St. Valentine's Day can be traced back to the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia. On Lupercalia, a young man would draw the name of a young woman in a lottery and would then keep the woman as a sexual companion for the year.


Well, Happy Valentine's Day