it's my very first entry on my very first blog ... so let's see where all this may end ... some day
today it's valentines day ... so what is that for? valentines day ... for me it's just another day without anything special (apart from a friends birthday)
according to wikipedia.org:
"Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual between holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affectionintimate companions. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards."
in my opinion the modern celebrating of this day was invented by the flower-industry ;)
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funny enough: I was going through wikipedia about Valentine's Day myself yesterday. I wanted to write something too so I was going through all sorts of stuff...trying to figure out what people think about Valentine's Day and I gotta agree: it pretty much is "invented" by the flower-industry^^and the chocolate one too lol
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