***UPDATE***
Guys! It's Holi season.
THIS is holi.
It's exactly what it looks like. A bunch of people having a water fight in the form of colorful powder, colored water, colored anything on the streets and basically just Throw. It. Down.
A little background info on its origin and significance. It's a Hindu holiday which celebrates the colorful season of spring hence the colored powder. Simple/awesome, right? There's actually a deeper, more detailed explanation regarding Hindu mythology so if you're curious check it out here.
So pretty much Holi consists of singing, dancing to music blaring throughout the streets and a whole bunch of water attacking. Oh and a good chunk of people are inebriated. The holiday features a popular drank called "bhang" which pretty much is a cannabis drank. It's made up of cannabis leaves, milk, butter and other varying ingredients depending on the maker. So everyone (mostly men/grown folk) is high and/or drunk and they play in colors. Basically a countrywide legal rave in which participants range from young to old.
Okay, so I'm kind of making it sound like a trash fest, but it's not. It is, after all, a religious holiday and there are spiritual traditions involved and not everyone is maniacal. Holi is just another example of deep rooted traditions that India affectionately preserves. A lot of places here in the U.S. celebrate Holi even our very own UCO puts on a Holi event every year.
It's such a festive, exhilarating holiday that I think the world should just celebrate Holi. Really though, America is so wonderful at adopting other cultures' holidays for the sake of partying e.g. St. Patty's day and Cinco De Mayo that this would be a great addition.
In a sense, America has adopted Holi with the popular "Color Me Rad Run." So if you really find yourself wanting to participate in Holi, but have no opportunity just sign up for the Color Me Rad 5K which incidentally will be in Oklahoma on May 11.
Happy Holi, y'all! May your life be full of colors of joy, colors of love, color of friendship and colors of peace.
Confession: I've never actually celebrated Holi. Okay bye.
Here's a video of the biggest Holi party ever. Maybe it will give you an idea of what it's like:
Guys! It's Holi season.
THIS is holi.
It's exactly what it looks like. A bunch of people having a water fight in the form of colorful powder, colored water, colored anything on the streets and basically just Throw. It. Down.
A little background info on its origin and significance. It's a Hindu holiday which celebrates the colorful season of spring hence the colored powder. Simple/awesome, right? There's actually a deeper, more detailed explanation regarding Hindu mythology so if you're curious check it out here.
So pretty much Holi consists of singing, dancing to music blaring throughout the streets and a whole bunch of water attacking. Oh and a good chunk of people are inebriated. The holiday features a popular drank called "bhang" which pretty much is a cannabis drank. It's made up of cannabis leaves, milk, butter and other varying ingredients depending on the maker. So everyone (mostly men/grown folk) is high and/or drunk and they play in colors. Basically a countrywide legal rave in which participants range from young to old.
Okay, so I'm kind of making it sound like a trash fest, but it's not. It is, after all, a religious holiday and there are spiritual traditions involved and not everyone is maniacal. Holi is just another example of deep rooted traditions that India affectionately preserves. A lot of places here in the U.S. celebrate Holi even our very own UCO puts on a Holi event every year.
It's such a festive, exhilarating holiday that I think the world should just celebrate Holi. Really though, America is so wonderful at adopting other cultures' holidays for the sake of partying e.g. St. Patty's day and Cinco De Mayo that this would be a great addition.
In a sense, America has adopted Holi with the popular "Color Me Rad Run." So if you really find yourself wanting to participate in Holi, but have no opportunity just sign up for the Color Me Rad 5K which incidentally will be in Oklahoma on May 11.
Happy Holi, y'all! May your life be full of colors of joy, colors of love, color of friendship and colors of peace.
Confession: I've never actually celebrated Holi. Okay bye.
I'm so glad you finally got this up! It's really interesting to see how the latest trends of Americans (Color Me Rad Run) have been adapted from long-standing traditions in other cultures.
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