A  GUIDE ABOUT – TYPES OF FESTIVALS

Well, before I rocket off into the large and lively topic about ‘Festivals’ let us first know what it is. Though you all are already well informed about what it is, let me still tell you. A festival is small season that is celebrated for maybe one day or for maybe a whole week! It all depends on what festival it is! Every festival is a time were the celebrators spend quality time with each other for example members of a family, spend even more time with each other during a festival than on normal days. Celebrators also have a fun and jolly time with each other and temporarily forget about all the headaches of the present modern days. But one thing is unique about them, that is the celebrators celebrate on a common thing.  

There are almost more than ten thousand festivals celebrated all over the world! Some maybe religious,   Diwali, Christmas or Eid. Some maybe celebrated on non-religious reasons like Onam, Baisakhi etc Whereas some are bizarre festivals that are celebrated though nobody knows the reason why.

Know let us go into a little more depth. Religious festivals are celebrated buy people of the same religion for various reasons. For example Diwali is celebrated as the festival of lights as it is an age old belief that the goddess Lakshmi visits the celebrators homes that day. Christmas is celebrated to mark the day Jesus Christ was born.

Non-religious festivals are celebrated to mark other non-religious things like Onam and Baisakhi. They are celebrated as that is the day farmers harvest their tenderly grown crops. Other non-religious festivals are food festivals which are celebrated on the behalf of all the gluttons in the world (Not especially my favourite festival though!)               

There are also the bizarre types. There was once a saying which meant something like this “ Where man is, let madness be!” And that saying is creatively interpreted by man as there are a lot of weird festivals around the globe that are celebrated for no particular reasons. For example there is a festival in which new born babies are made to lie down in comfy little mattresses in the street, and a man clutching a whisky bottle in a death grip, jumps over them. As you may have racked your brains as to why this is done, I too have no idea but this strange phenomenon is still taking place in Spain and is called the El Colacho

But one thing is for sure, when a festival is celebrated, you always tend to make new relationships with many new people. This is one of the global advantages of festivals. It is also one of the reasons why festivals have such a positive attitude throughout the world. I mean seriously, nobody is sad, and weepy just because there is a festival tomorrow! Even when your arch nemesis steps into your turf during a festival, you wouldn’t be flexing your muscles at him, you would be flexing you mind into trying to suppress your anger and trying to make your enemy in to a friend and have a jolly good time with him!

Thus I conclude this interesting article (That is to me it is interesting, Hope we are on the same boat!?) by saying that festivals are a great treat to someone especially in this modern, developing world where everyone’s motto is to go to work, work and work. Festivals act as brain relaxants and divert you flow of aura in another direction! So jump out and enter the festive fun !