Memeforum Ideas Lab: Secular Easter
I've Invented a New Holiday
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I hate spring. I find everyone’s love for it totally disconnected from reality. They don’t love spring; they just hate winter and want it to be over. I understand their hatred of winter, even though I don’t share it, but I find this hatred redirected to a love of spring to be distasteful. We all know it’s unfair to love something simply because it lacks the qualities of something you hate. I also don’t really care for flowers.
Spring fills me with restlessness. What am I supposed to do? Fall is the last gasp of activity before hunkering down for the winter and subtly transitions us into the holiday season filled with light and celebration. Spring is the shedding of one’s winter clothes in anticipation of summer. In practice, that means nothing is correctly calibrated. Everyone is either too cold or too warm. Nature is still ugly because nothing has grown back. It’s too hot for soup and too cold for ice cream. Spring has no identity besides “not winter, almost summer”. It is only absence.
Spring is also lacking holiday-wise. From Valentine’s Day until Memorial Day, we’re all scratching our heads, celebrating either low-level holidays that are practically meaningless or incredibly significant religious holidays. Rotating between St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Orthodox Easter, April Fool’s Day, Earth Day, Passover, Arbor Day, and Ramadan (depending on timing) is enough to give anyone whiplash. Everything has either too much or too little significance.
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I can only fix what I’m familiar with, which is Irish Catholic Celebrations of Easter in the North East. Easter was never my favorite holiday to begin with, and aging out of Easter Egg hunts has only made it more obscure in my mind. Every year, I am left with the feeling that I should do something, and then I have the question of what would I even do?
Secular Easter solves all these problems. It is something to look forward to in the spring, that is a study and celebration of all the season has to offer. It is a holiday that is medium stakes on the same level as a friendsgiving. Most of all: It’s something to do in a season that asks too much and gives too little. It’s an anchor when there ain’t shit else to do.
