Father’s Day to be celebrated today
Once again, it is time to show our gratitude to the silent but sturdy member of the family, our fathers. Like every year, this year too our fathers will be in the limelight of love and affection today.
Although Father’s Day is not as popular as its counter part, or as we call it Mother’s Day but the concept is catching on and many children (some not as young as you think) honour their fathers in different ways.
Some go out of their way to celebrate the occasion, with presents, flowers and the whole shebang while some go the old but popular way of declaring their affection with homemade cards and hugs.
Slowly but steadily the media is also warming up to the concept of Father’s Day and special programmes and plays are scheduled to mark this special day.
Some people are of the opinion that the day should be used to honour any person who served as a father figure, irrespective of who he may be. The list this way can be endless and can include stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers or even elder brothers.
Interestingly, Father’s Day falls on the third Sunday of June in Pakistan while the rest of the world celebrates it according to the time zone it falls in. The concept of setting aside a day for our fathers is basically a hundred years old and started when a woman, Sonora Smart Dodd, from Spokane, Washington was listening to a Mother’s Day sermon back in 1909 and decided that our fathers need a special day as well