Celebrating V Day

What i like about Valentine's Day is the decorations, cards and the soft toys they sell for that occasion. It's cute. The other day i saw a teddy bear with devil horns holding a love that says something about V Day. Maybe because i like the colour red, so i get excited when i see these cute stuff in red.

Would i celebrate V Day if i have a bf? Hmm not really. Maybe celebrate it privately but won't go to the malls since there will be a lot of people and the restaurants will probably be full and i have no intention to see couples over doing PDAs (Public Display of Affection).

I think some women who are in relationship do feel the pressure of V Day, trying to compete with one another as in who get more roses or bigger presents. Thus probably hoping their partner will send those things to their office or give those stuff when they go out so she can carry them around for the public to see. I love big teddy bears but i definitely won't carry one around me, it's embarrassing. Just sent it home immediately or put it in the car.

Bfs and husbands probably want to avoid going out during V Day since they would be pressured to buy the flowers/candies/toys being sold openly in malls. There will probably be some idiot walking around with a basket of roses trying to spot couples and pressure the guy to buy the roses.

V day is in fact harmless, but there are idiots out there who think that having out of wedlock sex on V Day is EXTRA SPECIAL (as if they don't have sex on other occasions?). Thus this make religious authorities think V Day is evil where people will do immoral acts.

Quoting wikipedia on how V Day came into existence :

"appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail.

There is an additional modern embellishment to The Golden Legend, provided by American Greetings to History.com, and widely repeated despite having no historical basis whatsoever. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved,[15] as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed,[16] or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."[15]"

Anyway, how can priest have a lover? i thought he can't get married? I know pastor can do so.

V Day is not against Islam if u minus the holding hands (or any body contact) and out of wedlock sex. Duh, even those who called themselves religious or make themselves look so Islamic also hold hands with their gf/bf.