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Thirty Minute 🎆 🎇 🧨 Fireworks!

A friend of mine posted something about fireworks the other day and added a photo of how she helps her dogs cope. A lot of pet owners can relate to her angst, and their angst, but although I don’t have pets, I was curious about the original intention of fireworks.

It actually goes back centuries. In many cultures, especially in Chinese tradition,  fireworks and firecrackers are specifically used to scare off evil spirits, ghosts, and demons. The explanation is rooted in ancient folklore, and is a short-term practice that symbolizes driving away negativity and welcoming good fortune for the new year. This tradition also appears in festivals like Diwali, symbolizing the victory of good over evil, and I am sure people from other walks of life can add examples — none of which lasts for more than thirty minutes and certainly not several nights in a row.

So, in other words, the noise of the fireworks scares away the bad things that define the year that was, clearing the air for a refresh for the year to come. Thirty minutes should be enough!

So an interesting question that comes out of all this is: how many onlookers who stand outside to watch fireworks or who stay indoors to “enjoy” the sights and sounds of fireworks, actually know that somewhere along the way, it’s become an expensive form of seemingly endless entertainment that negates the origins all together? Not only that — it’s a long night of ongoing noise that annoys a lot of people and pets, pollutes our atmosphere and, in some areas, leaves behind an enormous amount of debris that others have to clean up!

Fireworks have become one of those human examples of “redefinition with intention” or of turning something sacred into sacrilege ! If it must be, can we agree on thirty minutes?

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