What's with these days??????

Yesterday happened to be my bhaiyya bhabhi’s 6th anniversary.after the regular formalities of giving the gifts and wishing them we sat for a chat. My brother started off the conversation saying that this over-hype of anniversaries and other such “special” days are something he does not understand. Be it “Father’s Day”, “Mother’s Day”, “Friendship’s Day” all are the gimmicks of gift companies and definitely does not belong to our culture. He also added that the concept of cake cutting is also alien to our culture but now has become a part and parcel of our life. I pretty much agree with his point so didn’t have much to add. But it was my sister-in-law whose words made me sit back and think. She said, many things are not part of our culture but we have adopted it. Giving an example, she referred back to our breakfast of noodles, she said that even that wasn’t a part of our culture but we do eat it happily.

She had a point and I couldn’t argue. Though I have my reservations over the celebrations of all the “days” but her opinion had a point. There are many things which was not part of our culture but slowly and steadily we started accepting them because they were convenient and made our life easier. Today in the pace we are moving, we hardly have time for family and friends or for that matter our partner. Thus we happily resort to the convenient way of making those “special” days more “special” by throwing surprises at them. So the concept of Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and all the other day’s becomes relevant to our life. And the gift companies happily cash of our sentiments.

So even though we may hate it, and there maybe extremists strongly voiving their opinions with dharnas and bandhs, the fact that we have also somehow contributed to the increasing popularity of these “special days”.