Episode 1 Celebrating people

[00:00:00] Happy Friendships Day, I am Pratika Shenoy and welcome to the first episode of The Sensitive Power Podcast Celebrating People.

[00:00:08] We have so many celebrations for people like Mother's Day, Father's Day but as kids my friends and I were ever of only the Friendship's Day.

[00:00:19] We used to get so excited and I have still kept some of the friendship bands that I received from my best friends in school.

[00:00:27] As we grew up, we got introduced to Valentine's Day thanks to the movies and now thanks to the internet we are celebrating so many like siblings,

[00:00:36] day women's day men's day and so many more.

[00:00:39] I found something interesting with how people are perceiving all of these different celebrations.

[00:00:45] There is this one set of people who are celebrating the day profusely and more importantly with that person in their life.

[00:00:54] Some upload so many pictures and videos with that person on Instagram and then flooding the WhatsApp statuses with wishes.

[00:01:03] And then there is another set of people who simply get irritated on all of these days.

[00:01:10] I agree that some people have it personal like if someone just went through a bad breakup or a bad divorce,

[00:01:17] then we cannot expect them to be happy on Valentine's Day. That's totally fine.

[00:01:22] But then there are some people who just hate celebrating people and I hear two arguments from these haters.

[00:01:30] One is that this is all fake and they are doing only for Instagram likes but they don't even wish their mother on Mother's Day in real life.

[00:01:40] I cannot disagree with them but I'm sure that it is not for everyone.

[00:01:46] And then there is another popular argument which works me even more and that is why celebrate just one day instead we should celebrate every day.

[00:01:59] Coincidentally, today I noticed Music Director Sullym Merchandh's post on Instagram which says it is not because it's friendship day today but because for me it is friendship day everyday.

[00:02:13] Sounds fair enough? I talked so too at first.

[00:02:18] Then I remembered one Diwali where I was a kid.

[00:02:22] It was the very first time I got access to so many varieties of fireworks.

[00:02:28] I was so excited that I told my mom after the celebrations I wish everyday was Diwali.

[00:02:36] Then my mom said something which I will never forget in my life.

[00:02:41] She said,

[00:02:43] anything that is an everyday thing loses its charm and it becomes normal but if it is just one day in a year it gets a lot of importance.

[00:02:56] You see, anybody who thinks that they are celebrating everyday is actually contradicting themselves because celebration cannot happen everyday.

[00:03:07] The whole point of celebration is that it is rare like once a year and with the kind of hustle culture that the whole world isn't today, celebrating people everyday becomes increasingly superficial.

[00:03:21] Nobody has the time for it and now let's add to it the number of people who shame highly sensitive people.

[00:03:28] Nobody really celebrates any one everyday at all and it is too much to ask anyway.

[00:03:36] Instead I look at these celebrations as a reminder for the insensitive people to just honor their loved ones that particular day.

[00:03:45] Just a card or some flowers or a fancy dinner just to tell them that they are special and they mean so much to us.

[00:03:54] Let me know by commenting on my Instagram post on what you think about celebrating people and what other sensitivity related topics you want need to cover.

[00:04:05] And thank you so much for listening to the very first episode of the sensitive power podcast and deep, deep gratitude to all my friends for being there.

[00:04:15] Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next episode with the title, What Will People Say?