Day after day after...........

I remember this day during my junior college, when one of my female friends was at the mobile throughout our bus journey from home to college (not that it was an unusual day) receiving and sending congratulatory messages to her friends. On asking her about what was the matter, she quipped, "What? you dont know? Its 'Friendship Day' today."
"Which world are you living in?" she questioned with a mix of surprise and belittling expression on her face as though I were naked and had forgotten to wear my clothes. For a girl like me, who is as bad as her amnesiac grandma when it comes to remembering dates, for one who always receives abuses (the mother/sister variety) from friends for not wishing them on their birthdays, this day obviously came as just another day, like it was no big deal! My friend then came upto me, held my hand almost aggressively and tied a yellow ribbon around my wrist. Then, she hugged and kissed me as though I was being sent to some sort of asylum the very next minute and she would never see me again in her life. Reminded me of those mother-son judaai scenes in Hindi films - the mother ties the taavis (sacred thread) around the wrist as her son leaves for a 'mission impossible'.......jeez, I meander....................

Reaching college she wished a few others & said, "chal, I gotta go, will be back by noon, the others are waiting for you in the canteen."
"Where to?"
"Don’t you get it, duh! To meet 'him', obviously!"
I was puzzled. "But a few months ago you celebrated Valentine's Day and last week it was Rose Day........"
"Yes, but that was different. And so what? Friendship day is the most essential of all days” she began to explain. "Friendship is the foundation to all relationships......blah.....blah" (I do not really know what those blahs stand for, coz I could bear no more of the sermon, and had started heading towards the canteen) As expected, everyone in the college was out on the prowl like maniacs signing on each other's hands, faces, T-shirts, tying ribbons, bands.........

The 'day after day' factor has become a regular phenomenon with the youth today and honestly, I HATE IT. No! No! I am not a Bal Thakarey enthusiast nor am I against socializing, but I just don’t see any sense behind celebrating these so-called 'days' of the year. Does feelings towards friends, lovers, near and dear ones HAVE to be expressed this way? Do we HAVE to have a day for each and everything? If your answer is a NO, then do not read further. If otherwise, please read on........coz here is where I let you taste the idea of having a well- structured potential schedule of THE 'days of the world.'

Some retrospection reveals that.............
These days the year is full of Days — Mother's Day, Father's Day, Parents' Day, Women's Day, Labour Day, Children's Day, Maritime Day, Meteorological Day. Practically every dog seems to have his own day. Navy Day, Air Force Day, Armed Forces Day, and then every national and international body comes out with its own days. For the last so many days, I have been wondering about these Days.

(I know that after publishing the rest of this post, when I leave home today to buy grocery from the neighboring kiraana, I am going to be Physically assaulted by some fanatics out there or they might just break into my home and smash my PC to pieces. Neways...... )

Is there a National or International body to regulate these days? If not, it is high time we had one. I sincerely want the compassionate super-nations to come out with an All-world Board for Control of Days (ABCD, for short). The Board should take up the gigantic tasks of settling the claims and counter-claims of so many Daydreaming sections. Otherwise, some people would like us to celebrate a particular day as Marriage Day whereas the same day would be Divorce Day for others. The Board must ensure that such conflicting claims are resolved before they become serious problems. And when ABCD comes into being, it should consider inclusion of the following in its list: Brother's Day, Sister's Day (already celebrated in India, but to be internationalized), Uncle's Day, Maternal Uncle's Day, Wife's Day, Husband's Day, Ex-wife's Day, Ex-husband's Day, Ex-lover's Day, Neighbour's Wife's Day, My pet-dog's day, Your pet-dog’s day, In-laws' Day, Out-laws' Day, Enemy's Day......... They must not forget to have an Old Year's Day, since we have a New Year's Day.
Soon a day will come when we will have no more days to celebrate Days. And what a day that will be!!