One Day Of Celebration

Select one of your own.

- Nikhilesh Shrikhande

Guess, how many days do we celebrate in a year? No, I am not referring to the obvious Eid or Diwali or Christmas. I am talking about the countless days we unknowingly celebrate. There’s ‘World Environment Day’, Father’s Day, International Yoga Day or International Day against Drug Abuse. I can list down all 143 days that the United Nations has declared. I can also list down another one from wikipedia.org of 218 days. And, I stopped searching when I was enlightened by days of the year.com that there are 121 days of celebration only in the month of June.

Certainly, as an average Indian few of you must have heard of or the most popular ones you must have celebrated. I further analysed and categorised these numerous ‘days’ in two broader types – ‘solo day’ and ‘social day’. The Impact of any solo day has profusely influenced an individual – for example, Father’s day. Social days are certainly called to bring a community or nationwide impact like the Yoga day.

But here I would like to ask a simple question, ‘Why do we have so many days and why we celebrate only a select few?’ Think for a moment.

No reason for celebration