If you celebrate it. Enjoy Easter, Passover, whatever, whether you're searching for eggs strewn about a garden, gorging on egg shaped chocolate (allegedly) brought by giant bunnies, or...
eating flat bread while telling a story about how awesome it was that when the creator of the universe ordered that all first borns in your land must die for reasons* that he (sorry He) spared the first born of all your group...
or....whipping ladies legs with colored ribbons, celebrating the brutal death (which likely never happened and we're not sure this guy ever even existed) and (alleged) resurrection of the (again alleged and really do you even consider it alleged when it's such an outrageous claim) son of God, and somehow spinning it into celebrations of spring which is totally not because those are things that people were celebrating at the time anyway...
or...
putting up springy decorations, ie the eggs and bunnies and chicks (some of them anyway) referenced above even though it's autumn because you live in a Northern Hemisphere-centric culture and are a typically Christian culture which celebrates these particular Pagan rituals this time of year, a combination of 2 or more of the previous or of one or some of them and something else, just hanging out with the family
or....
working because you're employed in the tourist industry in the most visited per capita city in Europe on a continent wide long weekend and you're one of the very few people at the company which does the tour to Prague Castle, the biggest tourist attraction in the aforementioned city, on it's busiest weekend of the year.
Happy season.
*Because the Pharoah wouldn't free His people, and when he started to think about it God hardened his heart and made him change his mind back, presumably so He could unleash all those plagues.
4.20.2019
Happy this time of year.
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Well... for many, maybe even most here in the UK, Easter is just a holiday period, and that's how it's always been for me, just welcome time off work, until about 5 years ago that is, when I retired. Since then it's become just another day.
Happy Holiday!
That's the best type holiday really, one without any bullshit rituals and pressure to do stuff whether you do that stuff or not. The only better type of holiday than the "just time off" holiday is the one where you don't need time off because there isn't any time "on". Lucky you. I'd like that kind of holiday.
I know, being perpetually on holiday sounds great doesn't it? But now, after 5 years of it, I'm missing engaging with others. They weren't exactly my friends but neither were they mere acquaintances, and besides, working got me out of the house. I never thought I'd complain about being retired. Be careful what you wish for :)
Well I've been unemployed for a lot of my life and complained about that too, though that's more of a money thing, I suspect. Still, I do feel a bit more real when I have some structured thing to do, as opposed to being aimless, which I am if left to my own devices. Ultimately I'd like to keep busy (ish) while doing exactly the work I want to do which would also be extremely well paid. One can dream. One does for that is as much as one will get out of this.
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