Uncultured Saint Patrick's Day

By: Gabriela Ardila 10ºB

Commemoration days have been over-popularized through the years. For example, Saint Patrick's Day has become an excuse to hang out with friends and have a good time. Uneducated persons that celebrate this international Irish day on March 17th, do not know the real moral reason why lucky charms and green colors are spread through that precise air, each year. So to get you out of the sink of innocence in this theme, I am going to inform you of the real purpose of this day. 

Saint Patrick was the lifesaver patron saint of Ireland. Ancient rumors say he was born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century. His childhood was harsh as he got kidnapped at the age of 16 to make him a slave in Ireland.  However, hopefully, in the middle of a difficult survival situation, he managed to escape. When he got his liberty back, something at the path he had just crossed, pressed a button in his heart that was unlocked, and he discovered that the meaning of his life was giving peace to the Irish souls through God's influences. By the time of his death on March 17th, 461, he had established monasteries, churches, and schools, giving away to the people a new beginning, a new future, and life to construct in. Thanks to all his dedication to the country, Ireland began to celebrate the day of his death with religious services and feasts that later on, with the intellectual retrograde of humans, became a day in which beer rules souls. 

Now visualize, as television shows have portrayed us on a clear image, different types of men; with a red, black, brown, and yellow beard in all lengths, white, black, and brunette men with freckles, glasses, different haircuts, and measures. All of them are dressed up in a fervor green in an Irish Pub, listening to Ireland’s typical music while dancing to its rhythm and drinking beer and green traditional whisky at the same time. They have excited faces filled with the pleasure of the moment, but… Can you imagine another view of this celebration without alcohol in it? Although the dominant tradition in fake movies has been governed by this event, in real life, people tried to convert those “religious services and feasts" into something more modern, but without tearing apart it’s a moral review. 

The traditions that Irish people all over the world realize with their families and friends are full of the cult.  I am talking about different celebrations from the parades or “the green river of Chicago”. I am informing you about The Shamrock, The Irish Music, The Snake, The Corned Beef, and The Leprechaun. They represent all of the most beautiful and humblest things on earth behind their eyes, and I am plenty sure that if people knew more about them than what those uncultured men and women do in a day that represents the saint of change in Irland´s community, all the country would feel like a cloud in peace on a charming blue sky. 

Here are some websites and videos for you to look up and be part of those who know about what Saint Patrick's Day really means. Enjoy your 17th of March! 

https://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day

https://www.smartertravel.com/st-patricks-day-ireland-really-like/