h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I´m not sure if I´ll be able to write more but... I´ll give a try.

Today people visit cementeries and put flowers in the graves. In Mexico people eat and sing in the cementeries and make a big fiesta today, El día de los Muertos, in Spain we say El día de los Difuntos, which sounds softer than muertos. We eat sweets made for the occasion named bones of saint, you can guess the shape, the flavour, well, the usual bun or cake of flour,oil, sugar and eggs.
People usually start to arrange the tombs a few weeks before today.

Last year the cementery of my village was, as usual, full of flowers, pots, bunchs, flowers of plastic or real flowers.
Some people thought that it should be the day of the Needed or the day of the Cheeky and during the night they stole all the flowers. Surely to be sold somewhere else. The whole village was shocked, it was the first time the cementery was robbed. How people could dare to do that? Weren´t they afraid of doing such a sacrilege?
It wasn´t the first time people stole flowers, a few summers ago, all the beautiful plants my mum and another neighbour used to put outside the door decorating the street, were stolen.

But... to stole the dead ones was beyond the pale. Someone said: " actually they must be very desperated to do that, such a lack of respect..." " it´s the crisis" said the other, and everybody agreed on that. In that case, God will forgive them.

I'm sorry the flowers were stolen. It is a shame that people won't respect anything any more these days.

Well, most people applied the idea of resignation. Nothing can be done, so let´s forget and let´s God forgive them.

My mum´s flowers stayed. My father had planted on the soil white daisies.

It's not unusual here, too, although the cemetery is fenced in and staffed. A sad note to start the month on, Maria.

Desparate, or young and thoughtless in which case they'll gow up hopefully and understand.

In the Uk the name plaques are being stolen from war memorials .

It sounds a much better festival than the trick or treat Halloween we have in England.

I came from the NaJoPoMo page, I hope you do manage the thirty - I love h2g2's world-wideness,
Waz

Yes, agreed, it is sad. I'm not sure that there are 'rational' reasons for some of these things. Sometimes it's simply a matter of respect for others,living or departed. The lives of many are so self-centred that it does not even occur to them to consider the sadness they might bring to another human being by their act.