| Sweetest Day is celebrated on the third Saturday | | | | Sweetest Day is just another commercial event |
| in October as a day to make someone happy. It | | | | aimed at making money, but the fact remains |
| is an occasion which offers all of us an | | | | that it is an occasion which has got to be |
| opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged, | | | | celebrated. It depends on one as to how he |
| and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and | | | | wants to celebrate it. The idea is to revert to the |
| associates whose helpfulness and kindness one | | | | philanthropic and humanitarian feeling and to |
| has enjoyed. Sweetest Day is not based on any | | | | spread hope and happiness by one's little but |
| single group's religious sentiment or on a family | | | | sincere gestures of kindness. For example visiting |
| relationship. It is a reminder that a thoughtful word | | | | a nearby hospital full of patients who crave for a |
| or deed enriches one's life and makes it more | | | | tender word or two from someone or visiting an |
| meaningful. As for many people remembering | | | | orphanage or a childrens' home, spending some |
| takes the form of gift-giving, Sweetest Day | | | | time with the hapless ones and distributing candies |
| offers the opportunity to show others that they | | | | and chocolates among the inmates.Helping |
| care, in a tangible way.Over 60 years ago, a | | | | someone carry his or her bags to the car, holding |
| Cleveland man, believing that the city's orphans | | | | the door even if one has to wait an extra minute, |
| and shut-ins too often felt forgotten and | | | | giving up one's seat for an elderly or an infirm |
| neglected, conceived the idea of showing them | | | | person, would imply that one has still done |
| that they were remembered. He did this through | | | | something sweet . After all it's "Sweetest Day". |
| the distribution of small gifts. With the help of his | | | | Sweetest Day gifts may include chocolates, never |
| friends and neighbors, he distributed these small | | | | ending chocolate boxes that is getting a set of |
| remembrances on a Saturday in October. During | | | | boxes that fit inside of each other, flowers , that |
| the years that followed, other Cleve landers | | | | speak the language of the heart, chocolate roses |
| began to participate in the celebration ceremony, | | | | and candles.Too often we underestimate the |
| which came to be called "Sweetest Day". In time, | | | | power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening |
| the Sweetest Day idea of spreading cheer to the | | | | ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of |
| underprivileged was broadened to include | | | | caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life |
| everyone, and became an occasion for | | | | around. We forget that the best portion of a |
| remembering others with a kind act or a small | | | | good man's life is his little, nameless, |
| remembrance. Soon the idea spread to other | | | | unremembered acts of kindness and love. |
| cities all over the country. Sweetest Day is a | | | | Wherever there is a human being, there is an |
| holiday celebrated primarily in the Midwestern U.S. | | | | opportunity for kindness. A good character is the |
| states of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and | | | | best tombstone. One's name should be carved on |
| Wisconsin.Appreciation for the simple things in life | | | | hearts, not on marble. The nicest and sweetest |
| and the little surprises that a day can bring may | | | | days are not those on which anything very |
| be one of the trends that fuels the celebration of | | | | splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just |
| Sweetest Day. It's sweetness all around with | | | | those that bring simple little pleasures, following |
| candies and cakes .Sweetest Day has become an | | | | one another softly, like pearls off a string. |
| occasion akin to Valentines Day when people | | | | Whether one is giving, receiving, or just watching |
| offer a candy or a small gift as a token of love | | | | from afar, nothing brightens up one's day like a |
| and admiration. As people become more mobile | | | | token of affection, or seeing people treat each |
| and jobs take them to different regions, the | | | | other with kindness. Sweetest Day is exactly the |
| once-regional celebration of Sweetest Day is | | | | time when one can let his sweet self guide all |
| spreading throughout the country. Appreciation for | | | | gestures.This article is written by Ronald Nelson, |
| the simple things in life and the little surprises that | | | | Researcher and Events Organizer, specializing in |
| a day can bring may be one of the trends that | | | | Worldwide Events and Festivals. |
| fuels the fun of Sweetest day.For many | | | | |