International Friendship Day 2021: Its History and Significance

Know all about the date, history, and significance of honouring the valuable link of friendship between best friends on International Friendship Day 2021, as well as how it differs in India.

Source: Dekh News

Friendship is a synonym for love, and even if your closest loved ones won’t put up with your 3 a.m. tantrums, your best buddy would. When we can’t see the bright side, our friends sit in the dark with us, seeing the anguish in our eyes while the rest of the world believes our smiles.

Friends are the greatest gift of life because, while you can be wild with them, they are also the ones that don’t always require vocal communication to understand you. Sometimes, being with your best friend is all the therapy you need and to celebrate these friends who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you or the wrong you, Friendship Day is celebrated across the world with great pomp and show.

International Friendship Day is celebrated annually on July 30. However, countries like India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and United States mark Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August every year.

History of International Friendship Day

Joyce Hall, the originator of Hallmark Cards, first organised Friendship Day in 1930. On August 2, he planned for this day to be observed; a day for people to gather together and celebrate their friendship.

People soon realised, however, that it was just a ploy to sell greeting cards, and the holiday faded away in the United States. Friendship Day is still observed on August 2 in most Asian countries.

An International Friendship Day was first proposed on July 30, 1958 by the World Friendship Crusade, an international civil organisation that campaigns to foster peaceful culture through friendship. The idea of globally celebrating Friendship Day came to Dr Ramon Artemio Bracho on July 20, 1958.

The cheerful group of friends gave birth to the World Friendship Crusade as he sat down to supper with his pals in the village of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay. It was envisioned as a foundation that would foster friendship and fellowship among people of all genders, races, ethnicities, and religions.

The World Friendship Crusade began as he sat down to supper with his friends in the town of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay. It was intended to be a foundation that would foster friendship and fellowship among people of all genders, races, ethnicities, and religions.

It’s Significance

According to the United Nations, the UN General Assembly declared July 30 as International Day of Friendship, with the goal of inspiring peace initiatives and bridging gaps between communities via friendship between peoples, countries, cultures, and individuals. “The resolution places emphasis on involving young people, as future leaders, in community activities that include different cultures and promote international understanding and respect for diversity.”

People all over the world, however, use the day to commemorate the BFF journey from strangers in an academic institute or workplace to inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable inseparable. Even though it is not a public holiday, people around the world go out with their friends and toast to each other’s good health and many more years together.

Celebrations

Friends exchange greeting cards and gifts, spend quality time with their best friends, and some even make friendship bands and tie them around their friends’ wrists as an act of affirmation on this day. Others simply make extra efforts to make their friends feel special or take extra care of their friends in their love languages. With Friendship Day 2021 just around the corner, make sure that you strengthen the bond between you and your friends with humility and truth, forget differences or pride or right and wrong and heal the wounds between you and who you care for.

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