The thing I dislike about Easter (and this applies to all holidays, actually) is that everybody feels they have to make mention of it. Back in the old days, when you only knew the people you really knew, and might make contact with 15 or 20 people on an extremely busy day, Holiday Greetings were somewhat less irritating – in fact, a welcome change from the “Hi, how are you?” greeting of every other day.
This was the best one
But now that we have facebook, and thousands of friends (I put quote marks around the word friends and then took them away. Even if I’ve never met them in the flesh, they are people I talk to, people who see a little bit into my life as I do into theirs. They are friends.) the volume of banal holiday greetings is just overwhelming. There were some cute and funny ones. The picture from my niece with her daughter painting eggs was particularly adorable. But the “Every bunny was Kung-Fu fighting” picture was only funny once, and I saw it several times more than that. Likewise the Easter Island statues rendered as rabbits. Quite a few religious posts.
Resistance is counter-productive, to paraphrase the Daleks. I write this little anti-Easter creed, but it fulfills the same purpose. It acknowledges the day. It says to everybody “I know what day it is. Do you?” Because even though we are in different places on the planet, at different stages in our lives, viewing the universe through different mental prisms, we all inhabit the same time, simultaneously.
Anyway, tomorrow is Czech Easter, what with the whips and all. It makes American Easter seem no more obnoxious than every other Sunday. I do think the Easter trees are pretty, though.
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