Throughout the year we are constantly hammered with awareness initiatives. Countless diseases, issues and objects are shoved in our faces day after day with the general, “Do you know about this? Well, today you must recognize it.”
While a large number of these issues and diseases are important and should be recognized, there are just as many that are irrelevant and should go away.
April is home to 29 different national month-long awareness initiatives, 29 daylong awareness initiatives and 12 weeklong awareness initiatives. These are just the nationally recognized awareness days. There are also another 20 or so internationally recognized awareness days, weeks and months in Canada.
Prepare yourselves, because this month you have to acknowledge close to a hundred different things. It's Alcohol Awareness Month, Earth Month, Jazz Appreciation Month, National Garden Month, National Food Month, National Pecan Month, National Poetry Month and National Soyfoods Month (to name a few) and those are just the month long initiatives.
April 17 is Zoo Awareness Day, April 19 is Bicycle Day, April 25 is Penguin Day and at the end of the month when you want to celebrate that the jam-packed month of initiatives is over you can do so celebrating International Dance Day on April 29.
Dance Day is just one of a few important international awareness days: April 4 is International Carrot Day, April 5 is International Pillow Fight Day and April 26 is International Macaroni Day. The list goes on and on. There are way too many different awareness initiatives for a normal person to keep up with. But don't worry if the thought of trying to keep up with all of these different initiatives is stressing you out, as April is also Stress Awareness Month!
So, when you are stressed out working in the garden while eating carrots and pecans, writing poetry about penguins on bicycles and listening to jazz music, just remember that you can release that stress by repeatedly hitting someone with a pillow on April 5.
Note: Awareness days, weeks and months were courtesy of http://www.disabled-world.com and www.national-awareness-days.com
