Valentine's day, Good or bad?

I get a bunch of e-mails from my Iranian friends these days.

It is all about: 'We shouldn't copy these kind of occasions as long as we have sth. corresponding! Let's celebrate the Iranian Valentine's day which is 1 month later!'
Then a historical information which is not really true tell us how intelligent we - Persians - were 2000 years ago to celebrate Loving day!

We assume that the information is correct - which is not- but I have a point here!

If we have had such a date to celebrate Love, why we didn't celebrate it for 1000 years then?!
We were waiting for Americans - or in fact Europeans - to start something nice, then because we like the whole thing and yet do not want to accept the fact that they are way smarter than us to make the best out of nothing,
we need to make ourselves satisfied by sending these kind of messages!

PLEASE...

Admit that they are better than us! Why do we fight in a battle with ourselves?

The whole thing is we are way behind them in everything! Culture, technology, science and so on.

When I moved out of my country I was a proud Iranian girl, and I am still proud of me and my nationality. But I have learned a lot.
I have learned to be proud doesn't mean we are best and smartest of all. If we were, we were not stuck in such a bad condition!
In fact the secret of going forward and build a good future is admitting the weak points of culture and try to make them correct.
We should not fool ourselves!

Now, about the information, there is no 'Love' day in Persian history. The date all these e-mails point to is a traditional women's day. In this day, women didn't do housework or anything else.
On this day, men should do all housework and women partied all day together. In small villages they even had an election to vote for the best leading lady in the village who could help with family problems or other issues.

It sounds really nice to me, but as I said there is no connection to Love day.

This tradition still celebrates in some parts of Iran.

I wrote all these to remind myself, I am not just an Iranian. I count myself as a human being. As long as I live in this world I celebrate all happy ceremonies.
It doesn't matter where they are from and who has invented them. I am a human and want to be happy! I celebrate Christmas like I am celebrating Norouz.

I will celebrate Chinese new year if I live there!

I am mostly proud of being a human. :)

So...
Happy Valentin's day :-D