Ridiculous Holidays
Groundhogs Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Grandparent’s Day, Secretary’s Day, Valentines Day, April Fools Day, Halloween. These are not real holidays like Christmas or the 4th of July. Mostly because kids don’t even get out of school, or parents off of work for these so called holidays. These holidays are based off of superstitions, or made up by the Hallmark and candy Companies. They don’t have a true meaning behind them. It’s silly and absurd to celebrate these kinds of holidays. But, we do it anyway. God knows why.
Groundhogs Day is about a groundhog determining the weather for the next six weeks. ‘Will there be winter or spring, let’s ask the groundhog. He can tell us how much winter we have left.’ He’s a groundhog for goodness sake. Moreover, Phil, this celebrity groundhog, isn’t the one who decides. A group of people say whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter or not. They just address it through the groundhogs voice. Yet, there is a parade to march down the street for the groundhog, and the press is all over this day, and everyone turns their attention to the groundhog. Questions such as, “Will there be six more weeks of winter?” or, “What did Phil say?” are asked. Is it necessary for people to believe this nonsense? Let’s just stop everything we’re doing, and listen to the groundhog, the wisest of us all. Please. How would Phil know what the weather is going to be? If he could speak, he’d be more likely to say, “Hey, that groundhog on the camera looks really good.” This holiday is just a pathetic excuse to predict the weather with a groundhog. It’s a tradition, so it will stay, but it doesn’t make it any less ridiculous.
Hallmark Holidays are also absurd. The Hallmark Company made up holidays to sell their cards and gifts. We don’t need a holiday to celebrate having mothers, and fathers, and grandparents. Even though it’s a nice thought. But if that is the only day you tell your mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa you how much they mean to you, then that’s just sad. This should be done everyday, as often as possible. Not once a year. Valentines Day wasn’t a huge holiday until Hallmark grabbed it as a way to get business, loading it up with chocolates and jewelry. Secretaries Day is another holiday that is just as foolish. Bosses have to give their secretaries a gift? What’s next? A day devoted to a third cousin twice removed? It’s a secretary’s job to work for their boss. They can get a Christmas bonus and a thank you card for their hard work. Its unnecessary for their boss to give them a gift for doing their job. Why do we celebrate these days devoted certain people? These Hallmark holidays are not real holidays. They are regular days, but instead you send a card to someone you appreciate. So, there you go. Days dedicated to people we love and appreciate. Compliments of the Hallmark Company.
Halloween, on the other hand is based off of superstitions. The way it is today involves kids running around collecting candy in costumes, pretending to be a princess or a race car driver or anything else they dream of becoming when they grow up. Or for the teenagers, it’s about scaring the little children and taking their candy, robbing them of sweet and innocent dreams, because they themselves have nothing better to do on this night. It was originally a religious holiday devoted to praying for peoples’ dead relatives. Now it’s about candy, costumes, and the superstitions of people who say it’s the one night the souls of the deceased can return to the Earth. Oooooooo. So scary. I suppose superstitious people have their reasons, but it’s still silly. The dead can’t return to the Earth. It’s as simple as that. Their energy goes into the universe, their bodies break down into the ground, and all that’s left, is the memory. So, needless to say, they won’t be coming back and knocking on your door anytime soon. Or at all. Halloween is not a genuine holiday.
April Fools day is another holiday, if you’d even call it that, with little or no meaning. It’s just for the fun of pulling a prank. Some people believe it started as a celebration for the first day of spring, but I don’t understand why pranks have anything to do with spring. When you see flowers, do you automatically start to devise an evil plan to grease someone’s doorknob, or make a fake coffee spill on an important paper? Probably not. Instead it’s all about, “oh, how pretty the flowers look,” or, “its so beautiful outside.” Not the pranks on April Fools Day. Anyway, we don’t need a holiday devoted to practical jokes, do we? You just have to wait for the perfect moment. There’s plenty of time for scheming, plotting, devising, preparing, hiding, joking, and tricking. Besides, on April Fools Day, everyone expects it.
Holidays such as these don’t have a good reason to exist. We don’t need these special days set aside for doing things such as pranks or telling someone you love them. They are ridiculous holidays. Created by the Hallmark Company or superstitious beliefs. Some people are so gullible. They believe people can rise form the dead and a groundhog can predict the weather. Yah, sure. Just as pigs can fly or superglue can fix a broken vase without anyone noticing. I’ll admit, sometimes its fun to at least pretend we live in a world of impossibility. Theses holidays, however, are ludicrous impossibility. And hey, in my book, if I don’t get out of school, it’s not a holiday.
Groundhogs Day is about a groundhog determining the weather for the next six weeks. ‘Will there be winter or spring, let’s ask the groundhog. He can tell us how much winter we have left.’ He’s a groundhog for goodness sake. Moreover, Phil, this celebrity groundhog, isn’t the one who decides. A group of people say whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter or not. They just address it through the groundhogs voice. Yet, there is a parade to march down the street for the groundhog, and the press is all over this day, and everyone turns their attention to the groundhog. Questions such as, “Will there be six more weeks of winter?” or, “What did Phil say?” are asked. Is it necessary for people to believe this nonsense? Let’s just stop everything we’re doing, and listen to the groundhog, the wisest of us all. Please. How would Phil know what the weather is going to be? If he could speak, he’d be more likely to say, “Hey, that groundhog on the camera looks really good.” This holiday is just a pathetic excuse to predict the weather with a groundhog. It’s a tradition, so it will stay, but it doesn’t make it any less ridiculous.
Hallmark Holidays are also absurd. The Hallmark Company made up holidays to sell their cards and gifts. We don’t need a holiday to celebrate having mothers, and fathers, and grandparents. Even though it’s a nice thought. But if that is the only day you tell your mom, dad, grandma, or grandpa you how much they mean to you, then that’s just sad. This should be done everyday, as often as possible. Not once a year. Valentines Day wasn’t a huge holiday until Hallmark grabbed it as a way to get business, loading it up with chocolates and jewelry. Secretaries Day is another holiday that is just as foolish. Bosses have to give their secretaries a gift? What’s next? A day devoted to a third cousin twice removed? It’s a secretary’s job to work for their boss. They can get a Christmas bonus and a thank you card for their hard work. Its unnecessary for their boss to give them a gift for doing their job. Why do we celebrate these days devoted certain people? These Hallmark holidays are not real holidays. They are regular days, but instead you send a card to someone you appreciate. So, there you go. Days dedicated to people we love and appreciate. Compliments of the Hallmark Company.
Halloween, on the other hand is based off of superstitions. The way it is today involves kids running around collecting candy in costumes, pretending to be a princess or a race car driver or anything else they dream of becoming when they grow up. Or for the teenagers, it’s about scaring the little children and taking their candy, robbing them of sweet and innocent dreams, because they themselves have nothing better to do on this night. It was originally a religious holiday devoted to praying for peoples’ dead relatives. Now it’s about candy, costumes, and the superstitions of people who say it’s the one night the souls of the deceased can return to the Earth. Oooooooo. So scary. I suppose superstitious people have their reasons, but it’s still silly. The dead can’t return to the Earth. It’s as simple as that. Their energy goes into the universe, their bodies break down into the ground, and all that’s left, is the memory. So, needless to say, they won’t be coming back and knocking on your door anytime soon. Or at all. Halloween is not a genuine holiday.
April Fools day is another holiday, if you’d even call it that, with little or no meaning. It’s just for the fun of pulling a prank. Some people believe it started as a celebration for the first day of spring, but I don’t understand why pranks have anything to do with spring. When you see flowers, do you automatically start to devise an evil plan to grease someone’s doorknob, or make a fake coffee spill on an important paper? Probably not. Instead it’s all about, “oh, how pretty the flowers look,” or, “its so beautiful outside.” Not the pranks on April Fools Day. Anyway, we don’t need a holiday devoted to practical jokes, do we? You just have to wait for the perfect moment. There’s plenty of time for scheming, plotting, devising, preparing, hiding, joking, and tricking. Besides, on April Fools Day, everyone expects it.
Holidays such as these don’t have a good reason to exist. We don’t need these special days set aside for doing things such as pranks or telling someone you love them. They are ridiculous holidays. Created by the Hallmark Company or superstitious beliefs. Some people are so gullible. They believe people can rise form the dead and a groundhog can predict the weather. Yah, sure. Just as pigs can fly or superglue can fix a broken vase without anyone noticing. I’ll admit, sometimes its fun to at least pretend we live in a world of impossibility. Theses holidays, however, are ludicrous impossibility. And hey, in my book, if I don’t get out of school, it’s not a holiday.