Festive, festive time brings people together, we congratulate each other and for a while we forget that we are a little silly people, so we mess with the world around us a little less. Except, of course, Twitter users - they make fun of everyone and everything, defending themselves by saying that it's very important to be funny on Twitter.
We live in a multicultural region, and there are as many customs as there are religions. Although our people hardly admit that there is another religion besides theirs, when Easter time comes, everyone is somehow tolerant, takes care of their neighbors, congratulates the holidays twice if necessary. When it comes to Orthodox Easter, we see eggs and rabbits on social networks even where they don't belong, like LinkedIn, we see whose egg was the most resistant and admire it. At the time of Catholic Easter, we Orthodox like to congratulate those "we wish all Catholics a happy Easter" in a package, just so we can take care of them all in one piece. Those who make sure everything goes according to pe‑es throw in "happy".
Some other customs
Social networks have enabled us to do many things, among other things, to get closer to some other customs, to learn more about the world around us, and to learn that there are many strange ways of celebrating holidays. On the net, you can also see that everyone knows how to say "Christ is born" (admittedly, there are those who are a little less informed who like to beat "Christ is born"), but that's why there are a handful of variations on "He is truly born": true , truly, truly...
In my family, it is an Easter custom that the first red egg is always kept as a keeper of the house and stays that way until the next Easter, until it is replaced with a new one. If we accidentally break that egg, then we ventilate the house for the next year. In case the first egg doesn't turn out red enough, my mother says, "Okay, let this be the third, who knows it's not the first." And so the third egg is sometimes our firstborn. My uncle has a habit of leaving so little space at the top of the egg when beating the eggs that we broke the egg on his finger several times. But we didn't break his, that's important. In addition, my mother and I paint the eggs so much, we devote about two to three hours to them and if they don't shine and become colorful, then it's not that. And so I take a picture of those shiny eggs every time and post them on Facebook because it's a shame, they'll break, and they're really a masterpiece. Not to mention the controversy over whether it goes "head to background", "head to head" or some third variant.
Catholics have similar customs, but they differ in many ways. In Croatia, boiled ham, spring onions and horseradish are mandatory on the Easter table. A week before Easter, they celebrate Palm Sunday (a holiday called Tsveti in our country), marking it with some symbol of peace such as olive branches. During that day, the center of every city is filled with people walking around with twigs and colorful flowers. In some parts of Croatia, one even washes with violet petals. In Slovenia, in some places, eggs are decorated with wool, and this is usually done by girls, who then give the most beautiful eggs to boys. In Bulgaria and Romania on Good Friday, flour, salt, eggs and yeast are put on the windowsill, and on Easter Monday bread is kneaded from it. Et cetera.
A little practice…
If you search a little by hashtags and locations, you will see various interesting scenes of Easter celebrated by those who separate us from a few drawn lines on a map, some politics and craziness in the past. And don't forget that we all come from the same people here and that what custom we celebrate and whether we break an egg with our head or behind, doesn't really mean anything.
So here are some practical tips for the coming Easter:
- Wish friends of other faiths a happy Easter in person, not on Facebook, because it matters to them, not to all your friends and followers
- Share pictures of eggs that you painted and decorated very well. Social networks do not tolerate a lot of the same content
- Remember other people's customs because it's nice and you won't die from it
- Always have the hardest egg!
Author: @JovanaVu
Published in the journal PC # 231
Source: PC Press
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