Why celebrate??
This sunday marks Father's Day for 2005. But why mention Mother's Day and valentine's Day(and some other days)?
I believe such celebrations have lost much meaning while increasing $$ for restaurant owners, giftshops and such.....I believe that these days should not be around at all!! Not that I hate my parents, hate the world. But seriously why would you need a specific day in the year to remind you that you have to remember your dad, your mum, your love ones, that they are around you.
I for one cannot say that I am totally obedient, totally fillial to my parents. But what goes on my mind are whats the point of just showing love and concern to these people you supposedly love on just one bloody day out of the whole 365 days in a year, in the attempt of making it up for the lack of care, concern and love during the rest of the 364 days. And i dare say those lunch or dinner are sometimes made up of reluctant children bringing out their dad or mum for a meal, and after that showing black faces when the bill comes and are made to share the bill among the siblings.
And I am not a freaking miser. You can call me one too.....but i would not care less about getting a gift for such "celebration". I can show you care love concern for 364 or 365 days(exclude those days when i seriously piss you or you seriously piss me off), but do not expect anything extraordinary on those specifc days. I can treat you to great food, I can get you gifts(within my limits of course!).....Just not on those days.
Grown ups especially dads will not mind much about celebrating or not, which is a good thing. Mums will probably get a wee bit more sensitive then dads. But the worst case would be the girlfriends.....Your guy might have been treating you like a princess for the whole bloody year round (exclude those days when he seriously piss her or she seriously piss him off). So don't go around whining about not celebrating the day of love, when he justs wants to avoid the queues and crowd at the restaurants, cafes.
Reminds me of a short video clip of Chris Rock doing a take on dads, where he talks about dad busting his ass for the family and all he gets is the drumstick/biggest piece(forgot which was it) of chicken during dinner. Doesn't sound funny here but hey that guy is in the business of being funny. I am just a ordinary guy cracking corny jokes among my small group of buddies.
If one true love reads of this, i might get a good knock on my brains.Not that she is complaining much about lack of celebration for V-day.
Till next time......
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from copied paste from dictionary.com
Father's Day Word Origins
The celebration of Father's Day was inspired by the success of Mother's Day (which was observed nationally for the first time in 1914). Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, was listening to a Mother's Day sermon in church in 1909 and decided that fathers deserved a similar day of recognition. Her father, a Civil War veteran, raised Sonora and her five siblings after their mother died in childbirth. She circulated a petition suggesting the third Sunday in June (the month in which her father was born) and urging people to wear a rose on that day in honor of their fathers. The first Father's Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910. It was not until 1966, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, that it was proclaimed a national holiday and observance of this on the third Sunday in June was made a law in 1972.
The word father first appeared in Old English spelled as fæder (c 825), having derived from assumed Germanic fadar. It has cognates (relatives) in many other languages: Dutch vader and German Vater, as well as forms in Old Norse, Swedish, Danish, Gothic, etc., Latin and Greek pater, Old Irish athir, and Sanskrit pitar; all of these words share an Indo-European root. The use of the word father as a verb did not occur until 1483. Common synonyms for father are daddaddy (c 1500), papa (c 1681), pa (c 1811), pop (c 1838), poppa (c 1897), and pops (c 1928). (You only need to capitalize father or its synonyms when you are referring to your own father.) and
Just as the carnation became a symbol of Mother's Day, the rose was suggested and became connected to Father's Day. Some observe the custom of wearing a red rose to indicate that one's father is living or a white rose to indicate that he is deceased. The flower and plant rose comes from a shrub of the genus Rosa. Red is the most frequent color, but roses are also white, yellow, pink, and various shades of peach and pink. The Old English form rose came from Latin rosa, which may have been an adoption of the Greek word rhodon, "rose."
The creation of Mother's Day was a godsend for the florist industry. Its counterpart for Father's Day is the necktie or tie. Neckties started appearing on the earliest Father's Day greeting cards and retailers saw this and took advantage, suggesting this as a great practical gift. The word tie ("band, cord, rope") came into Old English by 800 in the form teah, teag, or teagum, developed from Proto-Germanic. The word necktie dates from around 1838 when it first hit the fashion scene as a narrow band of material worn around the collar (neck) of a shirt and tied in front. As early as 1920, the custom of giving a neckties to fathers as a token of affection took hold. Other popular gifts are socks, pipes and cigars, and shirts.
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