Merry Christmas! Happy Birthday and Happy New Year...
Why do in two out of three happy occasions we cherish the day and not the year?
To be honest I cannot find a single (pervert) reason that we do it. But for sure I find it wicked.
Who’s that person haven’t ever heard someone saying: “I don’t do Christmas, every Christmas I get depressed” or “Sorry for not picking up the phone on my Birthday, I was feeling a bit of under the weather”?
Our massive societies and economies are functioning like huge Military Services of Happiness. Anyone who’s not happy gets a strange look in the eyes from the people around or a huge tag as “Depressive” or “Melancholic” in a way that becomes almost discriminative.
If we open our eyes, we will see that people, without even understanding that, are naturally going against this order. Check most selling Hollywood movies and you’ll see that the feelings on sale are fear, excitement and painful tears. Is it happening accidentally that these are the feelings we are hiding when in public?
I am not sure if it is the Marketing Economy that pusses us to “Happiness”.
“Come on it’s your birthday, let’s buy alcohol till getting wasted!”!
Successes and happiness have a lot to celebrate while tears are for private parties.
What I am seeing is that people are in need of Feelings. Check all art pieces around and they scream pain, fear and anxiety. I am not sure if it is because we are trying so immaturely to hide these feelings or because we feel blunt when we do not have them.
What I am trying to say is that it is not important if we do not have a kiss on Christmas, it is not important if we will not party hard on our birthday and it is not at all important to have the most unforgettable New Years’ Eve. The important is our life to have the people, the level of joy and unforgettable experiences we want to.
We should not feel bad for ourselves or for the people who spend their “Big Days” of the year alone. We should feel bad when we/they are spending the whole year alone.
Nice post, Mike!
ReplyDeleteThis year, I also had bad mood on my birthday and histeric also. And my mom told, that it is even normal, cause our mind, our "thin body" is going through the process of birth, it is suffering coming from warm and nice place (mother's body) to our crying and crazy cold world. May be you also noticed, that next day after birthday, usually we have better mood!
At the same time now I am thinking about HB and HNY, it is also a matter of time... Imagine if we would celebrate birthday once a month or everyday, or new year every half a year. Our live would become so simple and beautiful, cause we would make everyday even more valuable and important! And we would live everyday as celebration. Or not. Who knows?
This was a bit of my ideas too...
ReplyDeleteOf course we need celebrations but when we want to celebrate, not when we have to...
Fully agree with you, when we want...
ReplyDeleteTrue! Not important what you do for christmas... better to have super awesome everyday life!
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