Women's Day

8th of March - which is in about a week time - is celebrated in my home country as a Women's Day. Sounds nice and sweet, but also a bit funny and strange. Indeed, why should we have only one day in a year to celebrate such a perfect kind of human being and to appreciate all the things women do for their men? ;) The truth is, this holiday was an idea born in the communistic period of my country's history. As one of the mottos of their social philosophy was involoving everyone in building bright future together, they started to treat women equally - when it comes to hard work! (literally, physical work, and also just work in a "job" meaning). To appreciate women's involvement, and also prove that actually they are not treated equally (because special treatment means that they do something unusual! ha!), the "government" decided to celebrate women's role in the society, by giving them flowers and chocolates on the 8th of March.
Thank God those times are over, but the holiday became a nice tradition, and still guys (at least those who watch the news or read newspapers on this day) remember say at least: Happy Women's Day, to their mothers, wives, girlfriends, daughters and friends.
Anyway, today in the morning the thought of Women's Day reminded me of one of these holidays back when I was in high school. I remember that on this day the weather was kinda sad. We went with my mum and my sister to walk by the seaside. I think it was Saturday. It was cloudy and foggy, the pavements were wet. Everything around was greyish, and we were walking by nearly empty streets. That day, to celebrate Women's Day, we went altogether to a small cinema to watch "Practical Magic", a movie with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. The movie was very girly indeed (no guy would like to watch it, believe me!), it was nice and sweet and somewhat magical (as it should), and made our day very bright from inside.
Just a small memory... As today is also cloudy :)