Saint Patrick's Day
Today is St. Patrick's day and we all are suppose to wear green...as it is known as green holiday too, as green is associated with Irish people and this is a Irish holiday (not in US but in Ireland)
So what is Saint Patrick's day? This festival marks the day as St Patrick's day, he was a short, cute, little old man who introduced Christianity to Irish people. Irish people celebrate this day spending time together with each other and participate in parade marked in the name of Saint Patrick. Americans celebrate it by wearing green cloths. It is a saying that if you dont wear green on St. Patrick's day then you will get pinched by others.
This festival remind me of two festivals from Punjab, one is Baisakhi and another is Holi....both actually come during spring, pretty similar time as St. Patrick's day. Baisakhi is the birth day of Sikhism and Holi is harvest festival & also known as festival of colors. During Baisakhi Sikhs participate in parade and religious acts....and during Holi, Indian normally wear white or light color cloths and then play with colors, so by the end of the day their cloths are all colorful, which represent love and fun side of life. I am wearing a green jacket today, and I noticed almost everyone is wearing a green as part of their cloths or jewelery or shoes....well no one want to get pinched afterall. One of my co worker is wearing all black, I asked her why are you not wearing green then she looked around and said why is everyone wearing green? We all smiled and pinched her...it was funny and cute.
People have been telling me that this festival has no meaning what so ever (as much as I understood) but this weekend when I was at the flower shop a lady bought all green and white flowers & balloons to celebrate this day with her family. That has made me curious, I want to see that how do they celebrate it.
Well, looks like I will have to make some Irish friends, so I can enjoy the celebrations and learn more than what is written in papers.
Happy Patrick's day to everybody.
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hmmm good post.
why dont we all celebrate this day by planting a green sapling in our neighbourhood so that in future the world is more greener.
and it sthe need of hour i feel wearing green is not the only expression to celebrate this festival,thinking beyond is need of the hour.
or else someone is really going to pinch us in future(global warming)
think it
sandeep
Thanks Sand,
its a beautiful idea, we should think about it and I iwll try to promote it.
V
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