Why I Love Easter (and I Still Go Egg Hunting at 23)

In 2018 he shared his passion for Christmas with you. In 2019, she expressed her unconditional and misunderstood love for her for Halloween…

Today he returns with his enthusiasm for… EASTER.

Carrot is such a commercial holiday pigeon!

This is what you are probably telling yourself.

It’s wrong. I like parties, magic and food.

Easter, the least elegant holiday in France?

Obviously, once again, it is France that is making no effort. In Anglo-Saxon countries, at least, people know how to live.

Well, that too must be said the symbol of Easter for them is a rabbit. We are bells.

As a child, I imagined giant bells with long legs and was skeptical. I thought it was not very discreet. A rabbit, THAT is cute and elegant.

Most Anglo-Saxons’ Christmas is even grander than ours, they celebrate Halloween as enthusiastically as they celebrate Christmas, and Easter also figures prominently in their celebrations.

They even have Thanksgiving and St. Patrick’s Day!

And here we are:

Naninana, it’s commercial, it’s all capitalism, let’s cut off some heads.

It is obvious that all these parties HAVE a commercial side and that the food, decoration and other entertainment industries rely heavily on these events to make a profit.

That said, nothing obliges you to see these holidays as pure consumption.

There’s this beautiful thing called using your hands, making yourself, and doing DIY.

Furthermore, the biggest fans of all these parties are also those who create their own decoration!

Returning to Easter, it turns out that in the United States, for example, it is customary to decorate one’s eggs (real or fake).

If you have little ones in the family, you can do Easter workshops on decorating and painting eggs!

I confess that since my early childhood, I have often heard people around me say:

Ouuuiii I don’t celebrate Easter, yes we offer a little chocolate but that’s enough.

But I, in my family, have been celebrating Easter since the dawn of time!

Easter, what’s new?

I think that if Easter seems to be the least celebrated holiday in France, it is because it is even more so than Christmas the more religious connotation.

I say “even more than Christmas” because Christmas has become mainstream that I’m sure there are many people who don’t even know that basically, we’re doing all this for this brave hipster Jesus’ birthday.

Brief. All of this to say that if you haven’t had any religious upbringing, it’s true that Easter may have slipped through your fingers.

For the less informed among you, Easter celebrates the end of Lent. Basically, it’s almost the date Jesus is crucified suddenly we’re sad and starving until he resurrects and ascends to Heaven.

And there my boyfriend is the party, parties galore.

But this story of Lent is mostly about the biggest admirers of God, because for me personally Lent is only a vague concept.

Will I be immolated by the faithful after writing this article? Probably.

Because I love Easter

I’ve always had a side of Easter egg.

From early childhood, as soon as I cross any type of tape, whether it’s used to keep a box of pastries closed, a Christmas present or even some chocolates, I tend to put one or two on my head.

A custom that has stayed with me ever since I like to wear silly bows on top of the head for no reason.

Anyway, part of what I love about Easter is the chocolates, of course.

At my home, we choose our chocolates at the chocolate factory like puristsand we enjoy all that butter cocoa until death comes.

But do you want to know the truth? I don’t even like chocolate that much. I like it when mixed with stuff. Grove. Praline.

By itself, it quickly gets boring!

Also for this reason I have always had difficulty finishing my personal chocolates.

But Easter it’s not just eating chocolates.

The fact is that often (even if it’s okay sometimes we get seriously screwed) it also rhymes with good weather, flowering and chicks.

Since I grew up with a garden, it was customary to do this hide the eggs from each otherso you literally go hunting.

People who say it’s all a kid thing, when you were doing the same thing in Animal Crossing two minutes ago, stop it bullshits and scroll past your virtual booth.

What spice up the Easter hunt even more isget to find the chocolates before the dog don’t fall on it.

And the icing on the cake, the BEST thing about Easter, here it is.

By the time I’ve found my eggs, bunnies, and more orange fries (yes, chocolate orange is my thing, what are you going to do) it’s almost time to eat.

Come the time of taste a chocolate BEFORE the meal. With an empty stomach and taste buds on the alert, now is the best time to savor all the flavors of this delicate cocoa-flavored piece.

A chocolate is never better than at that precise moment, this is a fact.

Celebrate Easter in isolation

It’s been several years since I’ve really celebrated Easter with my family, as everyone lives their lives in the four corners of France, but I still manage to celebrate it sooner or later, if only with my parents.

But this year there is no delay. There is only NO.

As a result, everyone will nibble their chocolates in their corner. No hunting, no gardening, no pooches.

That said, I’ll probably hide my chocolates anyway. Just on principle.

And, of course, I’ll taste my first chocolate just before noon, on an empty stomach, to get the most out of it like Arthur Finds the Grail.

Or like a girl from a yogurt pub.

And you, do you celebrate Easter? Are you sad that you can’t celebrate it this year? Or do you give a fuck?