Gratitude Post - March 17, 2023

I'm grateful for lesser holidays!

Please note that this is not a comment on St Patrick's day being a lesser holiday.  It being St Patrick's day just got me thinking about holidays, and it led me to think of some of the holidays that are often overlooked, which is what I classify as lesser in this post, not that even those holidays are less important or have less value than others.

In my mind, a holiday is something that's truly celebrated.  A day to find greater enjoyment than you would in another day of the year due to the fact that it is the given holiday, and you look forward to that day year after year.

Lesser holidays, on the other hand, are holidays that are often overlooked.  It might be because you are going through a hectic time in your life, or you didn't celebrate the holiday growing up so it doesn't come to your mind as something to celebrate, or maybe you just couldn't be bothered to prepare for a such a celebration.  Regardless of the reason, lesser holidays are often chosen not to be celebrated, and no one really is concerned because of it.

I'm grateful for these lesser holidays (and there's something on almost every day of the year), because they help remind us that secondary, or even tertiary things are worth celebrating.  You had a good day in the midst of a hard week?  That's worth celebrating!  You had a hard day, and you actually made it through it unscathed?  That's worth celebrating too!!!  It may not be a huge, pop the cork off some bubbly kind of celebration, but it's worth recognizing and celebrating those little things.