the girliest national holiday in the wooorrrllldd!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! :))
      i know, i know. some (probably most) of you don't really enjoy valentine's day. but i'm going to give you my thoughts on valentine's day.
      i think, valentine's day shouldn't just be something you spend all your money and time on a single person. you might love that person immensely, but there's other people you love, right? (like family, or friends) who might not have a person to spend all day with on valentine's day. or they do, but you can still be nice :3 i'm not saying it isn't a good time to chill with that certain person, because it is :)) but get up a little bit earlier than usual and make some cookies for your family or something, SPREAD THE LOOOOVVVEEE!!!  there's a lot of it floating around :))
     
of course, valentine's day wasn't originally a romantic holiday. Have you ever heard anyone call it St. Valentine's day? i think i might've but, anyways, if you have there's a reason for it :))
      originally, valentine's day was created to commemorate the death and/or burial of St. Valentine. who was, a pretty romantic guy. But this is just what some people claim. other's say it was the christian church trying to "christianise" the pagan celebration of lupercalia, a fertility festival dedicated to faunus, the roman god of agriculture. This holiday survived until it was outlawed and deemed un-christian around the end of the 5th century, which is around the time Pope Gelasius declared february 14th St. Valentine's day.
      It wasn't until much later, that it became definitely associated with love. During the middle ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that february 14th was the beginning of bird's mating season. this added to the idea that it should be a day for romance.
     
       It wasn't until 17th century that valentine's day was popularly celebrated. and around the 18th century, it became common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes.

there you go. a little bit of history you probably weren't planning on seeing here...........just so you know, i didn't take a whooole lot of time researching this, but i got my knowledge off of history.com so i felt like i could trust it. have a nice day guys, even though it's almost over because this was kind of a last minute thing :3




~~~doodle doodle doodle *insert music notes*~~~