{"id":1093,"date":"2018-02-09T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2018-02-09T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T11:46:39","slug":"commercialism-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/playschool\/commercialism-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercialism of Valentine\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commercialism has gone so far that people are made to feel inadequate if they are on their own on Valentine\u2019s Day.Love is NOT the highly commercialized circus we see on Valentines Day. It is much deeper and much more profound than<strong> sending someone a dozen roses at hugely inflated prices<\/strong>. It is much more than candle lit dinners and fancy chocolates.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why inexpensive? Well, you could rent a limo and take your love to a snooty French restaurant, or whisk him or her off to a trip to the snow-capped Alps, or rent a stadium and have the\u00a0Three Tenors\u00a0sing\u00a0love songs for you while the\u00a0New York Philharmonic\u00a0plays in the background. I don\u2019t know about you, but I can\u2019t afford to do that kind of stuff more than a few times a month.<\/p>\n<p>It seems we are madly clamoring for this special day of love, as if all it takes to prove and validate our love is just one day of being nice to our partner.<\/p>\n<p>It is amusing to see so many people rushing around to prove their true love for that \u201cspecial\u201d person in their life. But what happens when the roses have died and the chocolates have all been gobbled up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hhhg.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hhhg-300x139.png?resize=300%2C139&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Love is much greater than what we feel romantically. It is what makes us sing, dance and makes us human.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6c.-Finished-DIY-Valentine-Set.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1097\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oyspa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/6c.-Finished-DIY-Valentine-Set-231x300.jpg?resize=231%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Love?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are so many simple things we can all do on a daily basis to bring more love into our lives. Together we can all make this an even better and more beautiful world than it already is.<\/p>\n<p>Let us use the occasion of Valentine\u2019s Day for us all to become human again together, and manifest even more love in our already magnificent world. Always remember all the positive aspects of love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- 2nd test --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9595551360736809\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6399291002\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commercialism has gone so far that people are made to feel inadequate if they are on their own on 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