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More Holiday Fun

The daily writing prompt asks – Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

I really loved last year’s answer to this question in a post I did called – Too Many Holidays Already where I came up with 4 great holiday ideas.

But being another year has passed I’m sure I could add a few more.

Hold a Hand Day – I see so few people holding hands anymore. It’s good for the spirit. It doesn’t have to be anything forced. Just something a friend or significant other would hopefully do naturally. But in our day-to-day rush seems to be forgotten except for those first falling in love.

Visit an Elderly Person Day – It’s not any one day of the year but everyone must devote one day to visiting and spending time with an elderly person. Helping them, making them laugh, letting them tell stories, eating a meal together. If you don’t know one visit a nursing or assisted living facility.

Those taking care of an elderly person should get that day off when someone takes their place.

Sit on Your Roof Day – There have been a few times in my life where I’ve sat on a roof. All those times I’ve been troubled. For some reason that helped. It either relaxed me, gave me time to think and changed my perspective. Maybe it would do something positive for others. Good thing I don’t feel inclined to do that now, I’m too old to be climbing ladders that high.

Share a Skill/Be a Mentor Day – I thought of this because my granddaughter was saying yesterday, she might like to play basketball. My heart almost exploded with joy as I taught her a few things about dribbling and set up the basement hoop. Throughout my career and life, I always shared what little knowledge I had.

As I went through my 5 + decades of work. I noticed there were fewer mentors along the way. Probably due to several factors. Some companies started to set things up where people were competing against one another instead of as a whole team.

So take a day and pass along some wisdom, knowledge, skill, and make someone’s life better.

With a little help from my friends. Just happened to be listening to Joe Cocker version of that when I thought this might be a good image. Photo by Mike Hartley

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Too many holidays already

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate. – Not much into playing Fantasyland today but I’ll go with the flow from the Daily Writing prompt.

Have you seen the number of holidays already invented? You have asked the almost impossible. I found this site long ago and the lists by day, week, and month of holidays are ENDLESS.

So I found a photo that gave me an idea. Carry a Red Bag Day. Put something fairly heavy in it and carry it. At the end of the day sit it down. Imagine those are all your troubles. Stand up again without the bag. Now go take that smile to the fridge and get a bowl of ice cream (or insert your favorite food/drink/dessert).

Carry on. Photo by Mike Hartley

Option 1

Hold and play with an infant child, puppy, or kitten day. Do it for an hour minimum. I bet the smiles would tell me why it’s celebrated. Those fortunate enough to have that job full-time you get an hour or longer break from it.

Why is it obvious? We need to remind ourselves of the innocence of life and how precious it is.

Option 2

Re-USE It Day All day think about how you can reuse or repurpose something you would normally just trash. See how much you can reduce your waste. This is something we might want to think about before we’re all living on garbage.

Option 3

You Do IT Year – I know everyone likes holidays. Family and friends gather, a day off the job to do what you want, or just lay around and do nothing.

You see the holiday wound is still rather raw with me. I along with many others ended up working an inordinate amount of holidays in our lifetimes.

On You Do IT Year which is every official holiday for a year we reverse things. Oh everyone will celebrate but it will be different and not together. Everyone who is normally off on the holidays will go to work for us and we will be off.

Everyone might not celebrate but it may teach those who don’t or haven’t ever worked holidays to appreciate them more because of those who do.

Sorry, I appear to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. Let me get to work on improving my attitude.