By Barbara Erochina on May 30th, 2008 in Talk

With Mother’s day behind us (the 2^nd Sunday of May for most), Father’s Day still ahead (The 3^rd Sunday of June), and Family Day being introduced in more and more countries, I begin to ponder what the next invented holiday will be. We already have Valentine’s Day to celebrate romantic love and St.Patrick’s day to celebrate the consumption of brewed beverages (the importance of the saint has long seemed to escape most). What else could we need?

Before the days of generalized Hallmark greetings and mass produced teddy bears holding puffy hearts, holidays used to mean something. Christmas was about the birth of Christ, New Year’s was about welcoming a New Year, and Martin Luther King Jr Day reminded us of how hard others have worked to bring about civil rights.

What do any of these holidays mean now? Is there significance to these days on which we get to skip out on our 9to5?

Do you remember the original traditions, or do they matter to you at all?