Special Occasions

Special Occasions are those times when the rules can be ignored without guilt. Any occasion can be made special, just by announcing the occasion to be so. I do this a lot when we eat out to justify eating something I should not be eating. For example, eating chips at a Mexican restaurant.

I have a new standard for a special occasion. If an occasion can be special by announcing it to be so, then the only way the occasion can be truly special is to have the self-discipline and fortitude to not suspend the rules. Doing so would make any occasion a truly special occasion.