Reflections

My mother placed me in an educational institution when I was five, and I remained in one ever since! However, much learning is available away from organised set-ups. Sharing experiences is a wonderful human activity.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Festivities.

People manage to create slogans which motivate them to celebrate. There is a very long list of occasions that lend themselves for celebration, and thus become festivities. The range may include: festivities connected with a religious bacground, parties of all types: birthdays, rights of passage, weddings, routine week-end get togethers, winning a new appointment for a career, and so on.

The attitude for celebrations is as old as the mountains. Primitive people, also during their cave-dwelling periods, organised festivities for a great number of reasons. The new moon in the sky was a good reason for festivites, the coming in of the seasons, especially spring, was also a good cause for community feasts. Even the event of a woman’s pregnancy called for celebration. With the birth of a newborn festivities reached a higher degree of a popular level. Sometimes even the passing away of next of kin, friends or public figures gave good enough reason was celebration, albeit in a somber fashion.

Naturally, festivites are very much peculiar to different places, different creeds, different attitudes and different environmental backgrounds. The climate was also very responsible for the successful outcome of festivities, some of which became synonymous with people and places. Very precise rituals were attached to celebrations, giving festivites a well thought of liturgies.

Some festivites are set for an audience that participates from an outside position, say on the streets, or in squares, or in enclosed spaces with a roofless construction. You can have a celebration at sea, say crossing the line or on to-day’s luxurious giant boats where the motivation for festivites is limitless. Probably, this applies to planes in the air, though due to short periods of time from start to finish make them more of a challenge.

Sometimes traditional festivites carry with them a high degree of danger. Celebrating an event where man challenges a beast is not everyone’s sweetmeat. Literature abounds in stories that excel the prowess of one side and the determination of the other side, no matter if it is a beast or a person.

Dancing is a welcome activity that elevates the success of feasting. Whether carried out in a traditional fashion, or in a primitive way, it gives vent for celebration. The degree of enjoyment reaches further up on the scale of success when other human desires mix with the elements that make festivites unforgettable, such as drinking, eating and so on.

In short when a crowd gangs up with the objective of making merry, the celebrations or festivites become a medium for satisfaction. It is a pity, however, that so many lives are lost in the process.


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