Valentine and other holidays

Oh, it is Valentine today. I have completely forgotten about it. Actually, I don’t celebrate most of the holidays. I especially try to ignore Easter, Christmas, Halloween and Valentine. The reason: first two are Christian and the rest is Anglo-Saxon - it was imported to the Czech Republic just to sell more stuff. I also more or less ignore my name day and birthday. Well, I am forced to ignore the latter one because it collides with Christmas.

So to sum it up – why I don’t like Christmas: I am atheist and this is a Christian holiday. It stole my birthday. It is not much fun to celebrate “family holiday” when you are a child from incomplete family.

At the other side I respect historical holidays:
28.10.1918 establishing Czechoslovakia
17.11.1989 the velvet revolution - the beginning of the end of communism here
I would also celebrate other historical holidays like 5.-6.7. but I am usually abroad.

Thanks to Daniel for inspiring today's post :)