Valentine’s Day - Finding Your Inner Pagan
Greetings all, Steve here, wishing you a happy Valentine’s Day. Now, normally Dad would write the posts about things like Valentine’s Day, give some background on it, say something witty and then suggest that maybe this event has something to do with our personal psychology. Dad’s not available today, so I shall attempt to fill in in his stead.
For those of you who are alone this Valentine’s Day, don’t feel bad - you’re not missing much. It used to be much more fun. Wikipedia reports that Valentine’s Day was originally the Roman holiday Lupercalia, a magical time of year when young people all across the empire would, well, get together in a field and boink. Also, again according to Wikipedia, “at this time many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs.” That’s some religion ya got there guys. I guess they drank a lot back then.
Anyhow, Lupercalia was eventually banned by Pope Gelasius I, who wikipedia describes as, “an unbelievable jerk.” In it’s place, the church instituted a holiday where young people could give themselves thoughtful cards of affection. No more shaggy thongs for you guys.
Now would be the time for the thoughtful psychological statement. Hmmm… this is harder than it seems. O.k., how about this? We might want to ask ourselves, who’s boinking in our psychological field. Uh, no, that’s terrible. Try again. One question it might be useful to ask is: what is our inner Pope banning? No, that’s even worse. Uh, o.k. I got it, I got it. Perhaps on this holiday we could get in touch with our inner pagan. Naw, scratch it, pick it up tomorrow.
Happy Valentine’s Day:)