YADD: Yet Another Dumb Day

This post was going to be about Valentine's Day and why I would like to have nothing to do with it, but someone already wrote pretty much what I wanted to say.

And its not just about V-Day either. Its about the whole package.. Friendship day, Rose day, this day, that day.. the list just goes on and on. I guess everytime the fancy-gift-industry sees red in their annual reports, they pick something up that catches on the imagination of the youth and they make some cool profit. Speaking of which, not celebrating these days is considered "uncool", I hear. I disagree. I am not opposed to people celebrating these days, but why am I am considered an outcast if I choose not to? Who defined coolness/uncoolness anyway? Suddenly, wearing scores of coloured bands on your wrist on a particular day means you care a lot about your friends!! Duh!!

Why is blindly aping the west in, and just being yourself out? If this country survived for the last thousands ( -10) of years without even knowing of such stuff, why do we need to go over the top to define ourselves in terms of how we subscribe to such ideas? I mean, does anybody foresee Rakshabandhan being big in the US or brothers and sisters in the UK getting excited about Bhau-beej?