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It’s National Girlfriend Day Today And Here’s What It Stands For
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It’s National Girlfriend Day Today And Here’s What It Stands For

I am often struck with the desire to step off…

It’s NATIONAL GIRLFRIEND DAY today. So, August 1 marks this event and people are celebrating in many different ways.

To be completely frank with you, dear reader, I am not sure how official this say is, however it is a good excuse for partners to make today a little extra for their girlfriends.

Although, I am assuming that you guys don’t actually need an excuse to appreciate your girlfriend. But with that logic, we wouldn’t even have mothers’ day or fathers’ day so let’s just roll with it.

What matters is that the holiday apparently exists, so why not recognize it?

And if we wanted to, we could stretch this day to include even girl friends, rather than just girlfriends. You know?

And in this case, even girls who are in relationships, as well as the single ones, could be showered in love and appreciation from their circles. It is the positive energy we all need and deserve this Wednesday.

If you’re already bitter about people being in relationships and all cheesy and loving, then I’d suggest you look away…

As this girlfriend so usefully advised, one way to celebrate it, is to simply ‘honour [your girlfriend] greatly’.

National Girlfriend Day can also be used to wallow in loneliness, which probably isn’t the ideal way to spend the day…

The website Days Of The Year has provided us with some more information about this specific day, and revealed how, apparently, it did actually have the origin of simply being a day for female friends.

The website reads:

Let us begin with what Girl Friend’s Day is – the day of the girl friend. A girl, well that definition is well and obvious for the most part.

A friend is a person to whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection. That doesn’t mean sexual relations, just relations.

On August 1, 2004, Mistress Susan created a special day just for girl friends to express gratitude to one another — think Girls Night Out.

Since September 22, 2005, Chase’s Calendar of Events has listed August 1st as Girlfriends’ Day.

Ladies, you can get together with your girl friends to go to the park, to a Broadway play, out to eat at a restaurant opening, see an indie movie, to an upscale spa, or shop at Bergdorf’s.

So it seems the Girls Night Out origin of the day slowly transformed into something else and came to give off the impression that the is mainly for couples.

However, a lot of people are still sticking to the original definition.

Other people have pointed out August 1 is actually the celebration of something else very important…

National Raspberry Cream Pie Day.

Yep!

I couldn’t think of a better way to spend a Wednesday rather than with my girl friends, having raspberry cream pie and laughing until we get tummy ache.

You might also be interested in previous holidays: National Rosé Wine Day And How To Get In The Spirit

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