MADNESS IS GOOD, RIGHT?
It’s March in some days and this upcoming month has a few bizarre date designations. It is National Frozen Food Month, National Nutrition Month, National Peanut Month, National Women’s History Month, Red Cross Month, and Social Workers Month. There are special days like:
March third: I Want You To Be Happy Day (I definitely do want this)
March 5th: Multiple Personality Day (feels like a HUGE party day, even alone)
March 10th: Middle Name Pride Day (I am “Edward” at the present time)
March tenth: Popcorn Lover’s Day (considered one of my favs)
March 20th: International Earth Day (now not certain what to do, but adore it)
March twenty fifth: National Waffle Day (in all likelihood want to avoid this)
March twenty eighth: Something on a Stick Day (makes you go…hmmm?)
March 30th: National Take a Walk inside the Park Day (I love parks and stroll in a single plenty)
March 31st: National Clam on a Half Shell Day (two dozen, please!)
Who comes up with these items?
Yes…it’s March quickly and the insanity can be everywhere. What is insanity? Webster’s Dictionary has its definition of madness as folly, madness, enthusiasm and ecstasy. Two huge events every March deliver out those characteristics in every body. They are:
St. Patrick’s Day
NCAA College Basketball Championships
During a assembly this time ultimate 12 months with the CEO of a $600M employer, he informed me of his weekly plans. Attending a board meeting? No. Taking customers to dinner? No. Scrutinizing his income & loss announcement? No. He could be drinking inexperienced beer in an Irish pub on the Southside of Chicago, at the same time as looking university hoops.
Was he mad? Yes!
Will this yr be different? No!
On March seventeenth every person will become Irish. We will have fun St. Patrick, the apostle saint from the 5th century. Some say he banished snakes from Ireland. Awesome! I’ve been there. I noticed no snakes. His celebration has its parades, alcohol and mad partying into the wee hours. I’m Irish. I will put on inexperienced. We will all wear inexperienced. There is a legend that sporting inexperienced makes you invisible to leprechauns in an effort to pinch you if they are able to see you.
Are we mad?
A few weeks ago the #1 and #2 ranked NCAA basketball teams were upset on the identical night by a success coaches and accurate friends. Why did this be counted? At this time of year, every NCAA basketball game subjects, particularly the massive upsets. Getting into the “Big Dance” is paramount for maximum university basketball programs. Millions of greenbacks will change fingers as college coffers grow with each win. Baby-confronted, scholastic ballers will launch their expert careers by using getting in the Zone on the proper time and region. Campuses across America will pass crazy as their favorite crew runs onto the court docket with shouts of “We’re #1!” reverberating from college students, college and alums everywhere.
Why will we wear the material of insanity in March? After a long wintry weather, we need to permit our hair down and root for our alma mater. We need to rejoice our Irish historical past, even supposing we’re handiest 1/tenth Irish or no longer. We long to be a kid again. We need to put apart our financial challenges, political beliefs, circle of relatives squabbles and other hardships. With two occasions we are able to birthday party inside the moment, overlook our issues and recapture our teens. Who doesn’t want that?
March is a mad, mad, mad Zone month.
Do you feel the tug and pull of March Madness? It’s coming quickly! Get your shamrock. Wear inexperienced at the 17th. Put to your college colors. Root like a loopy character for your favored group, don’t forget about to embarrass your self eating popcorn on the tenth and make certain to suck down a few clams on the thirty first.
Are we mad? ABSOLUTELY…YES!! And this means spring is just across the nook.
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