Pimville youngster share their understanding of Valentine’s Day
The youth was so sure that Valentine's Day only meant lovers exchanging gifts and affection.
When Emperor Claudius The Second decided that Single men made better soldiers than those with wives back in the 3rd Century in Rome, and Priest Valentine saw that decree as unfair by continuing to marry young men in secret before the emperor discovered him and executed him, Valentine’s Day started.
February 14 became known and linked to the day of love from around those times, there are some other stories and legends about Valentine’s Day, however, all those stories have one thing in common, love and sacrifice.
The current youth and entirety of South Africa celebrated Valentine’s Day, and even children at daycare level were made to dress in red and white-colored clothes to show the significance of the day so we asked a few young people what the day symbolized to them; even though most had a romantic idea of the day, at least they had a clue about the fact that the day stood for love.
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Nkosindiphile Ndikinda from Pimville said that according to his knowledge, “Valentine’s day means that lovers should always remember to be romantic and affectionate to one another.”
The youth was so sure that Valentine’s Day only meant lovers exchanging gifts and affection, like Avela Mlazi who also thought that Valentine’s Day was just another day for lovers to make love.
Mlazi said, “It is a day of love, it is a day for people to rejoice and love one another.”
Most people still celebrate the entire month of February as Valentine’s Month, the month of love as well in SA and some other countries in the world, but how many people understand that from whichever Valentine’s people may link Valentine’s Day and Valentine’s month with, Valentine was a Marty, someone who sacrificed their life, for a cause of love and loyalty
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