Looking back, looking forward... Valentine's Day?

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It is Valentine's Day today.
For some, it is a special day. A day to celebrate the love you have for each other.
For me, Valentine's Day is just a normal day because I believe in celebrating love everyday.

If Valentine's Day is a celebration of love, then we should be celebrating our love for each other everyday, not just on this one day. Prices of things on Valentine's Day are usually marked up insanely high just because it is Valentine's Day. You pay for flowers and you go dinners at twice the price of a normal day. I think, Valentine's Day is overrated and overly commercialized these days that people end up spending so much more to feed these business owners. I would rather have the money spent directly on our loved ones for better use.

Once, out of curiosity, we searched for "Valentine's Day". We were wondering why do people celebrate Valentine's Day? What is the significance of Valentine's Day? And when we read this on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day

There are numerous martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14,[2] including a written account of Saint Valentine of Rome's imprisonment for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire.[3] According to legend, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his judge,[4] and he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution.[5] The Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of the Christian martyr, Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on that date in AD 269.[6][7]

...we came to realise that the story of Valentine's Day was really dark, morbid and sad. It should be a day of remembrance and not a day of splurging on your loved ones and trying to please one another or expecting to be splurged on and get upset if not, don't you think? Well, maybe it is fun to do so on a special day, I don't know.

Although Valentine's Day is meant as a day to celebrate love, wouldn't it be better to celebrate love everyday, cherishing our loved ones everyday and never take them for granted because you will never know when tomorrow never comes.

I once watched a movie titled "If Only". The movie revolves around a girlfriend who was always taken for granted by the boyfriend and was always put as a second priority until one day, he lost her in a tragic accident. By the time he came to his senses, it was already too late but somehow the boyfriend got to re-live the days before the tragic accident and this time, he was determined to change for the better and this in turn, changed the ending.