By Community Correspondant Luke Parkes In anticipation I pelted down the stairs as I heard the post drop onto the mat. I quickly filtered thorough the post vainly searching for a letter addressed to me. Fear flooded though my body as it seemed like none of the letters bared my name. Wait a second, a single pink rose scented letter caught the corner of my eye. Slowly I looked at the letter. It read “To Mr J Parkes”, my brother’s name. I couldn’t believe it!!! You see it was Valentine’s Day.

In despair I trudged tediously up the narrow and dark stairs. Valentines Day had definitely not lived up to my expectations. I then began to wonder. What is Valentines Day all about?

Every year on the 14th February over £300 million is spent on chocolate and 5400 million cards are sent worldwide. The amount of money spent on just the one day that is Valentines Day is flabbergasting. Just think about what that money could be used for. It could save the whole of Africa from poverty, it could help rebuild the whole country of Haiti or it could rescue the whole world from recession. Instead it is used to buy good for nothing chocolate which will just make the obese Western countries even fatter.

There is also the problem with people’s emotions on Valentine’s Day. Valentines Day is meant to be about love and kindness, however, almost 50% of divorces in the UK are sparked because of Valentines Day. It seems like Valentines Day has got more of a reputation of breaking up marriages then putting them together.

So then, what actually is the point of Valentines Day?