{"id":389,"date":"2014-02-13T14:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T12:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/?p=389"},"modified":"2020-02-14T23:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T21:30:56","slug":"a-message-of-love-the-day-before-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lefkasgreenroots.eu\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"A message of love the day before Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/discounter-unterscheiden-sich-minimal-von-anderen-supermaerkten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-391 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/discounter-unterscheiden-sich-minimal-von-anderen-supermaerkten-290x290.jpg\" alt=\"Message of love\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lefkasgreenroots.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/discounter-unterscheiden-sich-minimal-von-anderen-supermaerkten-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.lefkasgreenroots.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/discounter-unterscheiden-sich-minimal-von-anderen-supermaerkten-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a> Saint Valentine. Admittedly in my home country people prepare for the &#8220;day of love&#8221; weeks before. A consumption hype developed the last years, just like the day of Christmas was turned into an &#8220;event&#8221;. The real meaning of these days got lost in hysterical shopping- trips. The shops are prepared with decoration of hearts, roses and candles; advertisements are full of good advic<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/7480993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/7480993-290x273.jpg\" alt=\"7480993\" width=\"290\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>es for &#8220;him&#8221; and for &#8220;her&#8221;, ideas what you need to buy and what you have to do on this day. Obviously, the sense got distorted a little. Another example is the mothers- and fathersday, which is not there to show your parents one day of the year that you can buy chocolate. Also, the meaning of Christmas was not to buy bonus cards for your friends to buy products and i am sure, also Holy Valentine didn\u00b4t want to support a world which is ruled of moneyand consumerism.<\/p>\n<p>What he probably wanted to give, is a message of love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A message of love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It can be a poem or a song,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u03c3\u03ac\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenoclock.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u03c3\u03ac\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c9-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\u03c3\u03ac\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c9\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lefkasgreenroots.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u03c3\u03ac\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c9-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.lefkasgreenroots.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/\u03c3\u03ac\u03b3\u03b1\u03c0\u03b1\u03c9.jpg 686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nimportant is to whom we belong.<br \/>\nNot only on the day of Valentine,<br \/>\nyou should write a poem or a rhyme.<br \/>\nFor those you love and those you dislike,<br \/>\ncreate love and no more fight.<br \/>\nThe most love you can give is when you see,<br \/>\nthat love is also in your enemy.<br \/>\nWhere to see the good and where\u00b4s the bad,<br \/>\nit\u00b4s better to love and not to get mad.<br \/>\nRain can be nice as well as the sun,<br \/>\nyou can complain or just have fun.<br \/>\nJump around like a little child,<br \/>\nsometimes it feels great to be a bit wild.<br \/>\nWhen you get angry, disappointed or sad,<br \/>\ntry not to forget there is love to add!<br \/>\nMothers-, fathers- and Valentines day<br \/>\nlove has 365 days to stay.<br \/>\nPeople let\u00b4s not buy stuff,<br \/>\nand and all the other days to be rough.<br \/>\nRoses, dinner and a bottle of wine,<br \/>\nthe rest of the year there is also sunshine.<br \/>\nGive a message from your heart,<br \/>\nit doesn\u00b4t matter when you start.<br \/>\nThe message of love should be there everyday,<br \/>\nthis is the only thing I want to say.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elisabeth Weissitsch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Valentine. Admittedly in my home country people prepare for the &#8220;day of love&#8221; weeks before. A consumption hype developed the last years, just like the day of Christmas was turned into an &#8220;event&#8221;. The real meaning of these days got lost in hysterical shopping- trips. 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