Some get a day in the year, some get a whole year
When I was a kid in Romania, on this day, March 8, we celebrated Woman’s Day. I had no idea it was an international event, I thought it was just a Romania thing. It was a really big deal! And the deal was to make your mom feel special, or other women in your life, like teachers, for instance. So what we did was: me, my sister, my dad, we’d buy my mother flowers, and kiss her, and hug her, and she was just loving it! You could tell, she’d light up. And I was so happy that something small like this, like a bouquets of flowers, usually snowdrops, would make her so happy.
As a kid, I was very close to my dad – not that I loved him more, it’s just that we were closer, we got along better, he was more understanding… Anyway… I wanted to celebrate my dad the same way when his turn came on Man’s Day. I mean, we did it on his birthday but he was so nice he deserved an extra day in the year, surely. So I ask my mom: “When is Man’s Day?” And my mom laughs: “There’s no such thing.”
That puzzled me terribly as a kid.
So years later, I moved to the US, was all grown up, and I was with my partner one day, and it was March 8, and nobody really celebrated it here, and I remarked: “Hey, it’s Woman’s Day.”
And my partner says: “What’s Woman’s Day?”
“Well, it’s a day when you celebrate women.”
And he says: “Wow, women get a whole day!!”
And I say: “Yeah. What do men get?”
And he says: “Men get the whole year. Every day is men’s day.”
Oh… I finally got the answer to my childhood question.
See you,
Misty
When I was a kid in Romania, on this day, March 8, we celebrated Woman’s Day. I had no idea it was an international event, I thought it was just a Romania thing. It was a really big deal! And the deal was to make your mom feel special, or other women in your life, like teachers, for instance. So what we did was: me, my sister, my dad, we’d buy my mother flowers, and kiss her, and hug her, and she was just loving it! You could tell, she’d light up. And I was so happy that something small like this, like a bouquets of flowers, usually snowdrops, would make her so happy.
As a kid, I was very close to my dad – not that I loved him more, it’s just that we were closer, we got along better, he was more understanding… Anyway… I wanted to celebrate my dad the same way when his turn came on Man’s Day. I mean, we did it on his birthday but he was so nice he deserved an extra day in the year, surely. So I ask my mom: “When is Man’s Day?” And my mom laughs: “There’s no such thing.”
That puzzled me terribly as a kid.
So years later, I moved to the US, was all grown up, and I was with my partner one day, and it was March 8, and nobody really celebrated it here, and I remarked: “Hey, it’s Woman’s Day.”
And my partner says: “What’s Woman’s Day?”
“Well, it’s a day when you celebrate women.”
And he says: “Wow, women get a whole day!!”
And I say: “Yeah. What do men get?”
And he says: “Men get the whole year. Every day is men’s day.”
Oh… I finally got the answer to my childhood question.
See you,
Misty
