What's Love Got To Do With Val's Day?

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It's St Valentine's Day, the day often called Lovers day; when love, coming fully into visible air, should be felt and expressed. It is a day open for willful expression of love, and which many have chosen to do in their own convenient way, ways that meet their ends.

But Valentine's Day or Lovers day, what is the focal point?

The focal point, to me, remains the battle of love against hatred. Yes, the point of view is the re-enactment of the 'fight' between the epitome of today's celebration- which I think ought to be a moment of deep reflection rather than of the instituted fun fare-St Valentine versus Emperor Claudius.

In Claudius indeed we see the manifestation of coldness to individual concerns. In him we saw how the value that life reflects pulverized and battered. In him we saw really the enactment of hatred.

But there came a man thought to be indifferent to the very expression of what love seemingly is. Reverend Father Valentine came and showed that love, more than mere effusive and emotive expression of lascivious excitement that it has often been represented as more of an active show of affection that radiates from and deep in the heart.

Valentine redefined love, he gave love its relational essence and emboldened it to stand out; and it's for his reason that Valentine Day today is celebrated.

However it's rather unfortunate how the very motive of St Valentine's commitment to advocating for love which is the defeat of practical, expressive love over hatred and indifference is today been slaughtered on their altar of passive feeling.

Today, love has become redefined into a representation of immorality and lustfulness. Today, love abysmally defined, has been muddled and demonized. Love has been defeated; its true meaning of sacrifice, selflessness, goodliness have been defeated.

Nonetheless, today the message of Valentine still radiates; and that's: let's all human conquer hatred with love. Of loving your neighbors selfsame way you love yourself. It is of letting love leads over all evil!

Merry Valentine's day.

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