The last time I was here I left you hanging while I went for a walk. That was four days ago.
No, I haven’t been walking for four days straight. But I did go for a walk the last four days. It was a measly quarter of a mile in 12 min the first day. My wife said, “Back already? you call that a walk?” Today, I passed the one mile mark in about 20 minutes.
While I was walking, a neighbor asked if I was planning a BBQ? I told him that I was planning on going to work. He looked at me as if I had lost it. I just smiled knowing that I can just as easily decide not to go to work today. Or tomorrow, or any other day for that matter, while he will be back to his 9 to 5 job singing “It’s another Manic Monday” tomorrow.
When I got to the restaurant where I work, I wished everyone a Happy Independence Day and someone said, “A happy forth to you too.” That got me thinking (I know, old habits die hard). In the last 36 years since I arrived in the USA, I have very seldom heard anyone refer to it as the Independence Day. It is always referred to as the 4th of July Weekend.
Is it because most people don’t really feel that they are truly independent? Or is it because they don’t really know what independence means in order to celebrate it?
What do you celebrate? Independence Day, or 4th of July?
