The exhilaration of expressing love changes orbit as Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

Perhaps, you would be already burning the flab in your wallet, preparing for special surprises and candle light dinners to please your loved one.

Valentine’s Day is considered to be booming business time for the one whose targeted customers are young people while various socio-religious factions in India discourages the celebration as it is believed to be highly disgraceful and immoral for many Indian societies.

Yet, Love is like water, can’t stop, can’t stay still and the day of Valentine is nothing more than a reason to express love in concert, spend thousands of rupees and to feel happy on an occasion which is based on fiction.

There are 3 popular theories of Valentine’s Day which revolve around Saint Valentine of Rome.

St.Valentine was a priest in the times of Roman Emperor Claudius. The Emperor Claudius needed a strong and large army to fight wars, but men with families were reluctant to join the army and he was thus falling short of military strength.

The Emperor hence sought to solve this problem by banning marriages in Rome. He assumed that no marriage and family concerns would make people less reluctant to join the army and fight. However, this law could not deter them; both the young men and Saint Valentine.

Saint Valentine used to perform wedding rituals in secret and when his clandestine deeds came to light, Claudius sent him to jail and later on he was sentenced to death on 14^th February.

The other two legends are an extension of the first one. One of them says that when the saint was brought to the Claudius, the Emperor was impressed with him and gave him an option to convert his religion from Christianity to save his life.

As Saint Valentine was a loyal priest at heart, he rejected the offer and tried to persuade Claudius to be a Christian. Nobody was converted and the Saint was sent to jail and sentenced to death later.

The last theory of Valentine’s Day is that of the Saint’s tenure in jail. The story says that he fell in love with the blind daughter of the jailer, who used to visit him like many other young people. They used to spend a lot of time with each other.

It is said that Saint Valentine had heeled the girl from her blindness with his love in that period. The night before being executed he had sent the first ever card to his beloved signed as “With love from Your Valentine”.

14th February was declared as Valentine’s Day officially by Pope Gelasius in 496 AD, almost after 200 years of the Saint’s death in his remembrance. Since then the day has been committed to lovers.

Indeed how imprudent we all are to squander our emotions, our money and time on myths which has no strong base. Love, obviously don’t need any ‘logical’ reason to express and celebrate on a particular day.