The result of this is that there were less cars on the roads and stores had less people. I like these unofficial holidays. Everything is open, everything is functioning but there are less people. I always worked on this day and it was always good to take the subways to and from work. There were no people on them and it was always easy to finds seats.
Good Friday is a Christian holiday. As a matter of fact one of the most important of all holidays.
The problem is that people don't give a hoot about its meaning. The pope and the cardinal can talk until they turn blue, people only care if they don't have to go to work. Religion and belief is limited to a small number while the rest is just going along for the ride.
I don't believe in any religion but I don't berate anybody who does unless it is done to the extreme. Extreme beliefs don't serve any purpose they are usually practiced for the persons' individual reasons.
Good Friday or Easter Sunday might be one of the holidays when Christians who usually don't go to church decide to go. Average Jews don't go to the synagogue unless it is one of the two major holidays. But even then the majority of Jews do not belong to any temple. Their belief is that if they cook the proper dinner at the proper holiday they are good Jews.
This should be called the religion of the stomach!
Overall today was a very good day. We relaxed at home until the late morning hours, thanks to the fact that Spring Break is on and I didn't have to take the little girl to school. It really felt good not to be awaken by the alarm clock but by a loving hug instead.
We had lunch with a very good friend of mine and his lovely wife. This was the first time they met my girlfriend and they hit it off from the start. My friend and I love to talk. Actually that's an understatement. We can talk for hours and hours. We went to this restaurant where we met at 1 pm and didn't leave until 4:15 pm.
And, we only covered a few things.
No comments:
Post a Comment