How has Valentines Day Changed Over Time?

From a day of romance to an occasion that celebrates love in all its forms, that is how Valentine's Day has evolved over the years. From gifting tokens of love to girlfriends, wives to boyfriends and husbands this day has now become significant for sending Valentine gifts or tokens of love and affection across relationships. So, be it your wife or sister or mother you can now find this occasion as a reason to express your love for all of them through the various means that have become popular these days.

The reason people began celebrating Valentines Day was to honour a priest named Saint Valentine. Gradually the basis of this occasion has changed to a day that is relevant for the feelings of love, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial love, which is more platonic in nature. In fact this is one celebration that has lost the significant association with its origin.

Valentine's Day has also evolved into a commercial occasion. From cards and chocolate companies to florists, these days everyone comes into action with the knowledge of Valentine's Day being round the corner. It has definitely become associated as being one of the most 'profitable' occasions in a calender year.

This is a day which has so many facets to it and that too also since it is an occasion which is so personal in nature. That has resulted in the celebration having taken a different flavor with differences in places, regions and cultures across the world.