Feb. 14th 2007

Yeah!!! It is Valentines Day!!!! But where does Valentines Day come from??? Well, of course, it comes from the classical people such as Cupid/Eros and Aphrodite/Venus. Once again, all that is in the past posses the future! Cupid to the Romans usually meant the god of erotic love. (Eros is the Greek name for Cupid and another name from him is Amor.) Cupid is often dipicted as a baby with wings shooting his bow and arrow to spike romanticism. Cupid has a lot of the time been blame for the feeling of "being weak at the knees." But what does that mean? MOst people think that "being weak at the knees" is when a significant other says, or does something so extravagent for someone else, that it makes that person feel sooo good that they are completly overjoyed. This sudden rush of "feel good" hormones in the body then causes a cataclismic reflex that well, leaves one "weak at the knees." Aphrodite, the goddess of luv, lust, and beauty. Aphrodite Unania is the goddes of pure or plutonic love and Aphrodite Pandemos is the goddess of physical love. Valentines Day is definitely a holiday of the past and everyday life. All types of love a shared between people everyday, whether it is plutonic love between friends, or lust and physical love between lovers...Love happens everyday! So thank you Cupid and Aphrodite for gracing all mankind with this enchanting feeling.





Shakespeare Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakepeare
(1564 - 1616)