Day 31/365
They say we should always look ahead and not behind, isn’t it? But apparently, not today. Today is ‘National Backwards Day’. Sometimes, I wonder who comes up with these weird ideas and compiles a list of things to do. How do they even think one can practice going backwards one day in the year…strange, isn’t it?
The best thing about writing every day is you HAVE to read. And share, of course. So, reading unearths a whole lot of stuff which we would otherwise never know about. Much like going backwards today, for instance! There are also a whole lot of ideas of what you can do today if you haven’t figured that out yourself. Writing reverse poetry, writing from right to left (though some scripts already follow this rule), walking backwards, wearing clothes inside out, switching up meals (having dinner for breakfast, for example). I haven’t come up with these ideas, by the way. I stumbled upon them while searching for what could be done backwards.
Legend has it that this day was started by two women Sarah Nicole Miller and Megan Emily Scott way back in 1969 for no apparent reason. They planned among themselves, and word spread. The next day everyone was doing things backwards, and that is how it has come to stay since then. In India, we have neither heard of this nor do we practice it. Yet it is an interesting find, don’t you think?
What, if given a chance, can you do backwards?
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