Looks like Mother’s day and Father’s
day commemoration is slowly getting into every family. Is this Cultural change?
Is this face of the new modern era we are stepping into? I had no clue about
these days when I was in my childhood. Now these days are celebrated widely
across different cultures and it’s a trend gaining more and more attention.
Even the most conservative society started celebrating these days and adding
more emotional quotient to these events.
So how did these events
transform the current generation? Where did these events evolve? There is a big
commercial viability attached to these special occasions and every shop starts
selling gifts, flowers, cards etc., Schools start to edify the children to
offer something special to their dad or mom by means of drawing, writing, some
creative activity etc., by this way they can please the parents to some extent.
Media run special programs acknowledging the occasion by ways of bringing
celebrities and making them dedicate gifts/songs to their parents. Restaurants do some brisk business and seats gets reserved pretty quickly. Every one seems
to catch on the mood by being bit ingenious and touching the emotional quotient.
The problem I have
is looks like I am the odd man out; I am afraid that I will either be forced to
celebrate these events or I will at least be obligated to commemorate these
days. When everyone surrounding you celebrates I am not sure how am I to escape
from these modern day fantasies. I personally feel these are unwanted and don’t
see any reason to celebrate these days as a special occasion. We slowly imbibe this culture to the next
generation and then it becomes a custom practice within our tradition. The more
I think the more I get confused J
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