| Tuesday, March 22, 2005 |
| The World Day Craze |
Today I read that it is World Water Day. What the hell is that!!! Is it a day to celebrate the fact that we still have water and so we drink lotsa water today? or is it a day to realize that there is not enuf water left on this planet and so we take a pledge not to have water today so that we can conserve it? What is this fascination for celebrating every day of the year as some day or the other.
World Water Day
World AIDS day
World Day of Peace
World Youth Day
Mother's day
Father's Day
Sister's Day
Brother's Day
My Day
Ur Day
Why do we need to assign one day of the year to each of these events and what do we do if we run out of days...there are only 365 remember!!!. Do we then just club two events on the same day...today is World Water Day and also World Fire Day!!! May be there is some reservation system that I dont know of. If there is I think I shld jump on the bandwagon for a spot in the limelight.
Btw...who gets to decides all this anyway. Thro Googling, I found that this day was decided to be celebrated as World Water Day by the UN. But what abt the other days...who decides them. Is it some random guy who just wakes up one day and decides "hmm...what am I in the mood for today...yes ... yes .... pancakes ... pancakes sound real good ... ok thatz it then ... from this year on ... today will be celebrated as World Pancake Day!!! "
If it is really to send a message to the people ( as in the case of Water, AIDS, Peace day) then how is one day going to be enough. Also seriously how many people do really know about this day other than the ones who are in a NGO or other community that are involved in this particular activity.
In the case of these other Father, Mother days etc, what are they for. Is it a day reserved for us to tell that beloved person we love them. What abt the other days : do we just take it easy and not care and then on just that one day say "I love U".
May be I am just overreacting. But I think what I want to say is that what might have started as a simple and novel thing to do has now escalated beyond proportions and has turned into nothing more than a commerical and advertising gimmick. |
posted by BUS @ 1:51 PM  |
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Hey Bus,
Happy Wednesday ! :)
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Hmm...maybe konjam overreaction, some of it makes sense, for example look at this link: world environment day - for example is a day when they organize a whole bunch of projetcs and also fun stuff to do relate to environmental awareness and the over-publicized 'Global Warming' for instance. I think its a way to gain awareness but having fun in the process.
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well...may be some of them make sense and some of them dont...and may be having a day to celebrate helps these organizations collect funds for their projects... but I am still skeptical as to how much awareness they will really be able to build in one day. Of course they might be doing other campaigns during the rest of the year. So then the question again comes back to: then y this day?
I think what I fail to see is their primary motivation for doing such a thing and how successful they really are?
btw..RS i dunno how ur first comment got removed. I was messing around with my template settings and may be sthg happened...dunno...
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Hey Bus,
Happy Wednesday ! :)