Valentine’s Day is always a wonderful day, bringing the promise of love to those who are single. For those who have a partner, it’s a reminder to value that person who has given us a part of their life.
Love is never easy. It’s a rocky road, filled with potholes of disappointment and heartache. The emotions we feel along the way are what make us human, and part of what makes each of us the character we are. Who can forget the excitement of their first kiss, or the pain of their first love lost, or the thrill of receiving their first Valentine card, ? Can you imagine how dull life would be without those experiences, and how shallow it would make us as individuals?
Here in the UK, lunatic political correctness has become part of everyday life. Hal Colebatch’s stark
‘Thought police’ article in the Australian sums up this dangerous situation very succinctly. He speculates that Britain seems to be evolving into the first modern totalitarian state.
Against that background, what shall we make of this week’s news that the headmaster of a school in Somerset has banned pupils from sending Valentine cards? This, apparently, is to save them from the emotional trauma of being rejected. He said children should wait until they are mature enough emotionally and socially to understand the commitment in having a boyfriend or girlfriend.
How are these children to become emotionally and socially mature if they never experience emotional upset? Maybe it’s a 40-minute lesson they receive on the day they leave school? Utter rubbish! It worries me that children in Britain are being deprived of their childhood by half-witted teachers who don’t understand the very basics of human learning.
It’s a fact that today some of us will get cards, and some won’t. Some of us will get a kiss, and some won’t. Some of us have a partner to cuddle, and some don’t. And if we don’t like the situation we’re in, it’s within the power of each of us to change it. And that’s what’s so wonderful about life. Happy Valentine’s Day!
