Valentines Day...

I think Valentines Day is totally over rated. Ok I already know what you are thinking, "another bitter female talking shit because she doesn't have a Valentine", but that is not the case. I have been happily married now for almost 8 years, and I am truly blessed to have found such an amazing guy. History does not even know the actual facts or real story behind why we celebrate "Valentines Day" Experts have several different theories, but no cold hard facts to back up this tradition. I love my husband every moment of my life, I do not need one set day a year to tell me that I should show him love. It is just another commercial holiday to make American's spend their money. So on February 14th, resturaunts across america have a "Valentines Day Special" where they jack up the prices on a meal for two and the service is terrible because of how busy everyone is. Why pay up to 50% more on flowers and candy when you can get them any other day of the year for a normal price? And if you don't have a significant other in your life on Valentine's Day, it just draws more attention to that matter and makes you feel terribly lonely.

Origins of Valentine's Day: A Pagan Fertility Festival in February called Lupercalia

While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial, others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to "Christianize" the pagan celebration of Lupercalia.
Celebrated on February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat's hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage.

A Day of Romance: The Story of St. Valentine

On February 14 around the year 278 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was executed.
Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel, Rome was involved in many unpopular and bloody campaigns. The emperor had to maintain a strong army, but was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. Claudius believed that Roman men were unwilling to join the army because of their strong attachment to their wives and families.
To get rid of the problem, Claudius banned all marriages and engagements in Rome. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.
When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Valentine was arrested and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He was beheaded on February 14, on or about the year 270.
Legend also has it that while in jail, St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it "From Your Valentine."

So to sum it all up, we celebrate Valentines day for two reasons; randomly matched people fucking on the day of fertility and/or some dude who illegally married people and eventually had his head chopped off. How romantic is that??