Valentines Day A Romantic Peak Or A Commercial Basement?

Valentines Day A Romantic Peak Or A Commercial Basement?

Every year there is a surge in romantic interest as February, the Month of Hearts, approaches, and the scent of Valentines Day begins to waft in the air. When it comes to reality, though, how much of that surge is genuinely about romance? Is it not all a commercial exercise designed to rake in the profits?

I do not think anyone can argue that commercial interests contribute greatly to the publicity that surrounds Valentines Day. You see it everywhere from Christmas onwards; the Valentines cards, the Valentines chocolates with their heart shaped boxes and pictures of roses, plus of course all the advertisements for the roses themselves and how you must book early for that Valentine evening meal.

The commercial side of Valentines can appear so overwhelming you may be persuaded to believe that it is nothing to do with love and romance at all, but purely about making money; that the hearts and the roses are nothing more than artificial symbols of a romantic world that no longer exists.

With much of Western society having a hardened veneer, where underneath relationships fall apart with a puff of...