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Valentines day today and you may have wondered about the origins of this so-special day for lovers (including lonely-lovers as well). Cupid? Cupidon, god of love? Depicted as the mischievous flying ‘baby’ armed with a special bow (a love-arrows-shooting bow…I’m looking for one, anybody knows where it is available?) Anyways…all this is just rubbish, don’t you people, find these stories not even worth for small children? And you believe in that?

Ok, I know some of you are already planning how to give me a good beating, but fear not,I’m not against valentines day! It’s a day for lovers (and for businesses) and it’s a good and healthy( and romantic) thing . But what I don’t feel right is the current root of valentines day…Cupid…stupid!

So as from now on, we will together change the origin of valentines day; it will have a new origin!

‘Valen’ is a subset of ‘Valentines’ (i’m currently doing sets theory at uni…). So each element of Valen is present in Valentines as well.

And if you have done basic chemistry, you must have heard of the word “valency”.

Valen from valentines is also a subset of valency!

Now if we do an intersection with Valency and Valentines, we have “Valen”

Thus, the word valentines must surely have derivate from Valency.

According to wikipedia,

In chemistry, valence, also known as valency or valency number, is a measure of the number of chemical bonds formed by the atoms of a given element.

The etymology of the word “valence” is from 1425, meaning “extract, preparation,” from Latin valentia “strength, capacity,” and the chemical meaning referring to the “combining power of an element” is recorded from 1884, from German Valenz

As you may have guessed, the combining power of an element mentioned above is referring to love. And love is being described, as a chemical bond between two individuals.

And thus, proved!  Valentines’ new origin is the valency!

Happy valentines day, hope all your chemical bonds keep hmm…bonding together for eternity