It felt really odd yesterday when I described Diwali as being a Hindu festival. I know it is a Hindu festival but in India everyone celebrates it. So I usually describe it as an Indian festival. When we were kids we would take any excuse to have fun\/get presents so we celebrated most festivals.<\/p>\n
Every year we would go to the Air Force mess to celebrate Christmas where we would sing Christmas songs and then go pick up Santa Claus who would land in a helicopter. (Being an Air force brat was fun \ud83d\ude42 ). For Eid we would prepare Kheer and go visit friends and embrace each other. Once I moved to the US we would celebrate Thanksgiving every year along with Easter. There are a lot of festivals which I celebrated that aren’t technically ‘our’ festivals. (different religion, different country etc) but my personal philosophy about it is that festivals are supposed to spread good cheer and good will. So I celebrate all of them. \ud83d\ude42 At least all the ones that I can remember. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Today is Choti Diwali and in south India they celebrate Diwali today. So a lot of firecrackers are being burst today. But tomorrow is the main Diwali and there are going to be a lot more crackers tomorrow. Its going to be hard to think with all the crackers being burst. I am going to sit on the roof and enjoy the view with my parents. Don’t think I will burst any because its not fun bursting crackers alone. <\/p>\n
Well this is all for now. Will post more later.<\/p>\n
– Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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