Just when I got over the fact that I was an only child, along comes a day to rub having siblings in the face of only children all over the world. The day is April 10th, and the holiday is National Sibling Day, or as I like to call it “National Only Child Awareness Day”. Now maybe I just haven’t been observant, which is very out of my character, but I never realized National Sibling Day even existed until I saw about 10,000 tweets and FB shout outs on last year’s National Sibling Day. And after National Sibling Day 2012 passed, there seemed to be a frenzy of “national” celebration days such as National Margarita Day, National Bird Day, and National Kiss a Baseball Player Day. I began to question, since when did everything have a day of celebration and appreciation, and why don’t us only children have one?
No favorites on this tweet…apparently no one else felt the same way
So I did some research and found out I was not alone with my feeling of being left out of National Sibling Day. Apparently, a fellow only child has proposed for the last Sunday of every July to be National Only Child Day.(If you want to read more about it click here.)First of all, I would like to give kudos to this proactive only child for standing up for the rest of us and creating a day where we can celebrate a life of being the one and only child, and in my case, grand child in the family. Second, I would like to say thank you to whoever he or she is because they saved my indecisive self from having to pick one day out of 365, since I had every prospect of proposing this day myself. So while all of you non-only children prepare your pic stitch of memories with your siblings for April 10th (you have one week from today!), I will be preparing an unforgettable pic stitch of selfies for the last Sunday in July. I might even throw in one with my dog since we all know my parents consider him the second child.
Confessions of an Only Child 