In Love with Festivals

When do you plan to take a week off from work? Anytime next week? Next month? Next quarter? Or, wait! Let's see the calendar. Yes! Next month I see a few dates, consecutively colored red. Ooh! But I might just miss to attend my cousin's marriage as I might not be left with additional leaves for this Quarter.

                                                                                       

Most of us who have now been used to tackle these situations easily, would still agree that we do have to compromise on some events to make it to the other! OR, compromise our work to make sure you attend all of them! Yes! This time I am talking about our relationships with these Religious & Social Festivals!

Of course, our family, relatives & friends are the sole reason why we love these festivals, but the way we have been brought up we have gradually placed these events on priority than the people behind them. Look at your last one year! Diwali, EiD, Guruparb, Easter, Birthdays and Anniversaries of your loved ones! Haven’t you tried meeting them, or planned your holiday just on or around these specific dates?

I believe festivals were planned by our ancestors, to make sure where ever we were, whatever would keep us busy, we would make some time for our loved ones, to gather and not just celebrate the festival, but celebrate the gathering itself.

Consider a thought of why do you celebrate your birthday? Importance is that you were born, and not how many years you are counting! Consider another thought of lighting a Candle/Diya on Diwali all alone in your room. No one to share the sweets you bought! And now consider another thought of you are with your full family - siblings, cousins, parents, in-laws, close friends; at not necessarily an exotic place, but just at your home - No birthdays, no anniversaries, no festivals! Just a cup of tea/coffee in each hand, and a few snacks on the plates. Did the mere thought of a day like this move you?

People across the globe are in deep relations with these festive days. These Festivals, across the calendar, year and again, have been an inevitable part of our lives. We have grown, lived and got old with them. It’s a fantastic way of the Society to make sure we stay connected. Every action or a plan, directly or not, is either based around or for these events. But I still believe that it does not give us an excuse to wait for The Date to be with our loved ones!

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And wish you all a very Happy Independence Day !

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