I guess at some level that's sort of all a holiday is, but I think there's some amount of "taking time away from work and tedium" implied by the word holiday
I also think there's a sort of shared cultural meaning being lost from holidays as well. Is it really a holiday if no one else observes it, or is it just a personal thing?
Holidays are something that people share with one another, with their families, friends, their neighbors, etc
Maybe I'm being much too pedantic about what is ultimately just a list of days that this person has scheduled to take care of things that are important to them
things like toyotathon, various days of awareness or visibility, and prime day are essentially nihilist holidays, where the "holy" aspect of them is replaced with some material and un-sacred interest, and "celebrating" just means promoting or selling to people who don't care. Nobody is celebrating these things and acting them out is a banal rejection of meaning.
I like the idea of taking days for important personal things, and there is probably a system of living well that includes these tasks, but maybe reflecting on what something "sacred" might actually mean is a better use of it.
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* you obviously need the means to do this ; I went for money early on and I regret it but then again; I basically have been living of interest for most of my life now from selling my first company that literally almost killed me, 2 times (ambulances and the whole crap).
My "custom" holidays are:
- Summer Solstice
- Winter Solstice
- Grandma Memorial Day
- Chestnut Gratitude Day
- First Day of Winter
- Flowers Day
Omg, I hate those so much. They're so forced and waaay past their sell-by date, especially "May the Forth Day." They're basically, "experience the fun of the the cake scene from Office Space day."