Let's Celebrate the Love

I was sitting in my physics class the other day, oh and by the way it was February 14th in case you care, and one of my friends asked my monotonous teacher, "What are you going to do for Valentines Day?" She wasn't interested in him or anything so you with sick minds need to cut it out. He responded to her, "We don't celebrate Valentines Day." I was appauled. Why that is cruel and should be illegal. But his answer is what changed my mind. "We don't need a holiday that was created for business to say we love each other."

Ok, fine. I guess that is a pretty valid argument. Why should have to wait so long just to love your special someone. That doesn't make sense. I think that could cause some problems in a lot of mairrages. Then that made me confused. Does that mean that Valentines Day is totally and I should ignore it all together. (Just to make things clear, I didn't mean be a scrooge for Valentines Day and hate everybody for it, just not participate in it.) I don't like this idea because I want to do good things for other people, but he is right in saying that I shouldn't need a holiday to do that.

I think I have a theory on this matter. I do believe that the reason why Valentines Day was created wasn't in the interest that most people are thinking. Christian Rock plays into this argument too. Just because the roots are evil doesn't mean it can't be unrooted and be used for something good. Maybe if we just change our aspects on the whole Valentine's Day thing we can get more people interested, those single and those not.

I think that instead of using this day to love our significant other we need to just celbrate love in general. We should celerate all kinds of love in every way. Just like at Thanksgiving we celbebrate gratefulnes, and Christmas we celbrate giving (and the best Gift ever), and so on. We should celebrate love for spouses, friends, enemies, all sorts of love. And especially we should celbrate God's unconditional love. That's IS the best love ever after all.

I think our family kind of all ready does this. I know that my parents have a different love between them than between us, but we still try and do something special for them, because we love them and that is a day for love. So come on people, let's celbrate the love!