A couple of months in the past, my pal Kate was having a tricky time. So, she known as her sister…
On their cellphone name, Kate and her sister Laura got here up with the right resolution: a brand new vacation known as The Day of Issues.
Each February 1st, the sisters determined, “you’re allowed to mirror on and complain about all the issues in your life.” The vacation meal? “An assortment of junk meals.” Doesn’t it sound cathartic to place apart any silver linings for some good old style complaining? I’d love to take a seat in a small group in somebody’s lounge with piles of bitter sweet, potato chips, and chocolate. Possibly somebody is designated notice taker, and all the issues get ceremonially burned on the finish of the night time.
Interested by the sisters’ new vacation obtained me excited about what others we might add to the rotation.
Seinfeld launched Festivus (which has the same “airing of grievances”), the O.C. popularized Chrismukkah, the Christmas-Hanukkah combo, and Galentine’s Day got here straight from Parks and Rec.
The winter months are peppered with holidays, so I’m inserting mine on the second Wednesday in Might. It’s known as No Plans Day. There aren’t any meals traditions or journey expectations; the day is huge open. The one rule is which you can’t make any superior plans. Possibly it’s sunny and heat, so you find yourself mountaineering; possibly you’ve had a tricky few weeks at work, and nothing sounds higher than an enormous mug of tea and the prospect to lastly begin a e-book that’s been sitting in your nightstand. You possibly can spend the day getting ready an elaborate meal and invite mates for dinner, or clear out your closet whereas listening to your favourite songs from center faculty. It’s a temper ring of a vacation; do precisely what you need.
What else is lacking from the calendar? Possibly Honorary Aunt Day. Maybe some kind of pageant for the primary ripe peach of the season. We might begin Double Header Day, the place you watch two comparable motion pictures in a row. Or a flower stroll within the spring, throughout which you and a pal stroll across the neighborhood and odor all of the flowers you cross?
Do you already rejoice an invented vacation? In case you might create one, what wouldn’t it be?
P.S. 9 reader feedback on rituals, and final yr’s Galentine’s Day.
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