I picked as my subject heading, two of the “days” that very few people seem to pay attention to. The reality of the matter is that all of these days are invented by people or businesses to try and achieve some or other goal. Some of them take off, some of them don’t, but one cannot possibly pretend that they have as much importance or significance as a birthday or a serious event in somebody’s life.
Secretaries, for example, always remember secretaries’ day, but bosses day is normally remembered by somebody at about 3pm at my offices and I cannot remember when last anybody spoke to me about planting a tree to celebrate National Tree Day! I could have started my blog by referring to Mother’s Day, but that would only irritate far more people, but the reality is, just like Valentine’s Day and Father’s Day, this is a commercial invention that serves the card industry well, sellers of chocolates well and is a fantastic money spinner, above all else, for the flower industry.
I have no problem with all of them coming up with whatever days they can to generate business, as long as we accept that that is precisely what they are – commercial exercises. There are far more days and reasons to celebrate whatever you want to celebrate, rather than be told by big business that this is the day when you have to celebrate a certain thing!