My Funny Valentine.

The Jam Roly Poly said to the Sherry Trifle 'we may be just desserts but we can still make sweet music together'. The papers will be full of those sort of messages today, and why not ?.

Much is made of the fact that St Valentines Day is now just another commercial festival increasingly designed to make fat profits for the manufacturers of greetings cards and the entertainment industries, whilst this is undoubtedly true, its worth remembering that the fertility festivals of early spring long predate either St Valentine, or Clinton Cards. Such festivals probably go back to the earliest days of agriculture when our early ancesters, seeing the first signs of the seeds they had planted in the autumn beginning to poke through the snow, began to think about planting other kinds of seeds elsewhere. As with all such festivals, as society became more developed the customs became more organised and complex and developed religious overtones, eventually as we know, commerce got in on the act.

Whilst, of course we should show our feelings to the ones we love every day of the year, I dont see why there should not be one day when we make that special effort to show how much we value someone who is, or should be, at the centre of our lives. Whatever some may say, humans are at their best when they have that special someone in their lives who makes their heart beat just that bit faster and lightens the day by their prescence. So if you have that special someone in your life make today that special day but try to make every day special in some way or another. St Valentines day should not be the be all and end all of our emotional lives, but it should set a standard that we should try to live up to the rest of the year.