These seemingly harmless days devoted to food, places, and/or actions are taking over the world and I honestly don’t know how I feel about it.

Now, I totally understand that we should take time to celebrate and appreciate every day, but sometimes I wonder why we have to be so specific about it. Why can’t we just be like, “Hey it’s 75 degrees and sunny, let’s celebrate” and spend the day outside basking in the sun.

But it seems like everyday when I check my Twitter, some random national day is trending on my feed. Yesterday was National French Fry Day, today- Nation Hot Dog Day. So of course, I am going to use that as a reason to eat as many hot dogs as I possibly can, just because some website said I need to appreciate hot dogs on July 14th.

A question that I have always wondered is just how do these days come about. After a quick google search and some scanning, I found out that it really doesn’t take much to get a national day a national day.

All you have to do is get your idea enough public attention and boom, the National Day website will see that it’s trending on the web then make it official by adding it to their ever-expanding calendar.

With social media websites like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook where pointless and incredibly random things go viral by the hour, something as simple as hashtag with national day following it can spread like wildfire. Everyone wants an excuse to post a pic with their best friends on #nationalbestfriendday and eat a disgusting amount of bagels on #nationalbreadday. I won’t lie, I am one of those people.

But when it comes down to it, when is enough enough.

I get National Cat Day and National Cheesecake Day, heck, I even get National I Love My Feet Day. But when August 18th rolls around and you tell me it is National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day, I might be a little confused.

The National Day Calendar website adds nearly 20 to 25 new national days a year. At this pace, in five years there will be 125 more national days to add to the hundreds that already exist. At that point what else could there possibly be to celebrate? National I am Blinking and Breathing Day?

I am going to request a national day to stop making national days.

In the meantime, because national days are a still a thing and it is National Hot Dog, National Mac and Cheese Day, and National Nude Day, I am sure that there will plenty of people out there eating hot dogs with their macaroni in the nude… and who knows, maybe I will be too.

Intern Antonini