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You can create your own holiday

by neiman on 10/7/24, 6:04 AM with 14 comments

• by bluefirebrand on 10/9/24, 3:57 PM

  These are more like scheduled rituals than holidays for me

  I guess at some level that's sort of all a holiday is, but I think there's some amount of "taking time away from work and tedium" implied by the word holiday

  I also think there's a sort of shared cultural meaning being lost from holidays as well. Is it really a holiday if no one else observes it, or is it just a personal thing?

  Holidays are something that people share with one another, with their families, friends, their neighbors, etc

  Maybe I'm being much too pedantic about what is ultimately just a list of days that this person has scheduled to take care of things that are important to them

• by badmintonbaseba on 10/9/24, 3:51 PM

  I wouldn't call these holidays, these are just once-a-year chores (apart from celebrate X).

• by motohagiography on 10/9/24, 4:27 PM

  personal days of reflection and work make sense, but a holiday is probably inaccurate.

  things like toyotathon, various days of awareness or visibility, and prime day are essentially nihilist holidays, where the "holy" aspect of them is replaced with some material and un-sacred interest, and "celebrating" just means promoting or selling to people who don't care. Nobody is celebrating these things and acting them out is a banal rejection of meaning.

  I like the idea of taking days for important personal things, and there is probably a system of living well that includes these tasks, but maybe reflecting on what something "sacred" might actually mean is a better use of it.

• by neuroelectron on 10/9/24, 3:51 PM

  I'm interested in his holiday celebrating Elon's social network, but I don't think it's that niche.

• by tooreserved on 10/9/24, 3:15 PM

  But, i wanted to spend my holidays on deviantart.com... ?!

  [img:] (I think they don't like direct linking) https://i.postimg.cc/fRY8zpBF/23429-NU-FINAL-Mail.png

• by anonzzzies on 10/9/24, 3:46 PM

  i enjoy my holidays in my garden writing code. been creating them (holidays) since i could program which is now almost 45 years. I always have more fun in hindsight than my friends who do whatever 'the public likes' and took insta shots. each their own: if you can find joy in your head, it is easy to be happy forever.

  * you obviously need the means to do this ; I went for money early on and I regret it but then again; I basically have been living of interest for most of my life now from selling my first company that literally almost killed me, 2 times (ambulances and the whole crap).

• by kqr on 10/9/24, 4:05 PM

  Between personal days and real holidays, there is a lot of middle ground. I recently learned about Petrov day, which is consistently celebrated as a holiday within small internet communities.

• by ramses0 on 10/9/24, 4:19 PM

  "Arbitrary Day" => the day 6-months offset from your actual birthday where you celebrate yourself instead of other people celebrating you.

• by xandrius on 10/9/24, 4:35 PM

  I was expecting something more exciting as examples, as someone else pointed out, it's just a bunch of chores.

  My "custom" holidays are:

  - Summer Solstice

  - Winter Solstice

  - Grandma Memorial Day

  - Chestnut Gratitude Day

  - First Day of Winter

  - Flowers Day

• by geocrasher on 10/9/24, 3:33 PM

  Of course you can create your own holiday. We know this because all holidays are made up.

• by ape4 on 10/9/24, 4:00 PM

  Sysadmin Day, Pi Day, May the Forth Day

• by pluto_modadic on 10/9/24, 3:10 PM

  ah, yes. just forget to paint some of a metal surface. Then you can use a Holiday Test to find it.