Pointless holidays

This may be my inner cynic talking but I find Valentines day pointless because it is meant to be the one day to be very romantic with your partner. But really if you care for them for real you would be romantic everyday.
For that reason I find Valentines day pointless (But that may be because I've never had a date)
Another pointless holiday is Mothers day and Fathers day because the fact is that my mum didn't become a mother until my brother's birthday so that should really be mothers day for her. So why celebrate a holiday that has no actual point to it?
So to sum things up Oda's pointless holidays
Valentines Day
Father's Day
Mother's day.
Thank you for reading.

 

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I hate pointless holidays.

 

I like Valentines day and seeing everyone happy and stuff and it doesn't necessarily mean romance and junk. I'm pretty sure I asked everyone to be my valentine last February 14 and gave hugs to them all.

+ Holidays are great excuses for lots of things (e.g: food, meeting with friends, food, food food food food)

 

Aren't all holidays pretty pointless then, by your standards?

 

Christmas is a holiday dedicated to consumerism, but if you're really a consumer, wouldn't you buy stuff every day?
The point of holidays is to be a special day where you put the extra effort in. It's not practical to do that every day, and even if you did, it would cease to be special
Like keyblades

 

To be honest I'd say all but birthdays are but I celebrate them by force of habit really.

 

What makes a birthday have more worth than any other holiday?

 

Because they are celebrating the life of someone, as long as that someone means something to you then celebrate their existence.

 

Most mainstream holidays celebrate the life of someone.
Mostly Jesus.
But also, things like Father's Day and Mother's Day celebrate your parent's lives
And really, what makes the celebration if life the only thing worth celebrating?

 

I celebrate my parents lives on their birthdays although I do celebrate their anniversary too.
But i don't celebrate anything I am told to celebrate. I believe what I choose to. If you disagree I respect that just like you should respect that I choose to disbelieve.

 

Don't misinterpret what I say as disrespect. I believe a person can think and do whatever they want until they affect someone else. As long as you don't go around bashing people for their beliefs, you an believe whatever you want.
I just love me a good debate.
And as such I put forward that Mother's Day and Father's Day are celebrations of when your parent's began their lives AS parents, which IS a new life. And this isn't celebrated on the day they became parents because it would just be overly complicated, plus it would just be on the same day as your birthday.
And of course you do things because you're told to. There's no other way to go about things. We wouldn't have silly celebrations on our own accord, that requires a civilization. Celebrations are vanities that we use to accentuate the enjoyment of our lives, so you should sit back and enjoy them, rather than worrying about their point (spoilers, there is none)

 

I too enjoy a good debate but I also do not trash people based upon their beliefs I am not judgmental in any way. I just choose not to believe. But as I said it may be just because I am rather cynical. I have never had a date so Valentines day is worthless to me. My mum has failed to be a real mum so many times putting me in danger more than once so some mother she is. And my father and I never see eye to eye so he is more like my landlord than my father so that gives me little reason to celebrate fathers day.

 

I've never really understood the people who talk about not seeing the fuss about Valentine's Day, or getting put out on it, because they're single. It's pretty much the same as any other day unless you're spending it with someone, and even if you've got ~someone special~, there are plenty of couples who don't celebrate it. Like Mother's or Father's Day, yeah you should show those people you love and appreciate them everyday, but sometimes we don't. Those days are reminders to do so.

If you want to ignore them, by all means, go right ahead. But they're not pointless.

 

I hope you don't look down on me for my belief just like I won't look down on you for yours. When you have been let down as much as I have you will doubt your folks too but if you still love and care for them hold on to that! I may not see them as a mother and father to be celebrated they are still the parents who raised me and I will always be grateful for that.

 

I barely speak to my father out of my own choice and go to great lengths to avoid seeing him. But just because I don't celebrate Father's Day doesn't mean it's pointless. That's the point I'm trying to make.

 

Yes I understand what you mean Misty and I respect that but as you can tell I don't share that view and I am not someone who lets others change my point of view or beliefs.

 

That's a dangerous way to approach things. If you enter something assuming only you can be right, you just close yourself off from most of the world's possibilities.

 

I know I am not always right but I won't let myself be talked out of my own beliefs.