It is the 29th of February. this day only comes around every four years. I'm going to be honest with you guys, my time is taken up. Either with college, coursework, family, writing and well just time being used. Well, sometimes in life I am so busy I only know the day of the week I'm at and I don't pay attention to much else in that concern. The only time I pay attention to the date is if there is an event or an occasion coming or even an appointment, otherwise I am pretty much clueless. The whole concept of time kind of bugs me, we only have 1440 minutes in a day, and most of that is spent doing work for college and going about our schedules, eating and sleeping. We get deadlines and certain time to be places, and we actually base our whole lives around time, it's strange but we need it. The only time isn't taking into consideration is through the holidays, where we can freely waste our taste and forgetting what day it is without much consequence, but even then we make plans and fill up our time again busying ourselves so aren't left sitting in our bedrooms bored wondering what to do for the next three and a half hours. We complain we never have our own time, our own time to be free, chilled and stress free. Yet, when this time comes we instantly make plans, granted it is ours to allocate freely as we wish.
And because of the sorting of time hundreds of years ago we are granted with the leap year. The leap year holds traditions, searching I found four traditions;
1. Women can propose to men. - I am proposing to myself! Love you me!
2. Babies can join a club. - Those born on the 29th have exclusive membership to the The Honour Society of Leap Year Day Babies. - I didn't even know this was a thing!
3. Leap Year Capital of the World. - The city of Anthony, which sits across the border of two American states - Texas and New Mexico - has nominated itself the Leap Year Capital of the World. It holds a four-day festival to celebrate the occasion, including a huge birthday party for Leap Day babies. - Again I did not know this!
4. Modern Olympics are always held in a Leap Year.This appears to be a fluke - it's a good fun fact. This year's Olympics will be Rio de Janiero in Brazil. A Leap Year also marks the US Presidential elections.
5. February 29 also marks Rare Disease Day. - There are about 7000 diseases considered rare. Examples include Crohns Disease and Tourette Syndrome -
Okay so I knew only one of the traditions named above, and that was the marriage one. I feel more educated about today.
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