The thing about Valentine’s Day that makes it important, however, isn’t that it is a day just to celebrate couples. The day, in fact, is to celebrate Love overall, whether romantic or not. Whether we like it or not, having some form of Love in our lives is actually necessary for good health. There are constant and research coming out telling us that loneliness is detrimental for health.
The real purpose behind St. Valentine’s Day may shock some students as this was chosen as a day to celebrate love because the beginning of the birds mating season was around this time as well. The oldest known valentine still exists today and was written from a duke to his wife while he was imprisoned, the letter was dated 1415. Although St. Valentine’s Day began in Europe and the Americas, the holiday has now become a worldwide phenomenon. Wherever you may be in the world on February 14, chances are that talk of valentines, love and gifts probably won’t be too far away.
Valentine's Day is a fixed day on the calendar that got lumped into a mid-February holiday on the ancient Roman calendar called Lupercalia which some historians believe is what led to Valentine's Day being all about love. Lupercalia celebrated fertility, and may have included a ritual in which men and women were paired off by choosing names from a jar. In Ancient Greece, people observed a mid-winter celebration for the marriage of the god Zeus and the goddess Hera.
