28 February

THORN AND THRONE The unique character of this date makes everyday it takes important, necessary, problematic and undesiring. One would ask, how can something be necessary and problematic or important and undesiring at the same time? This means that there is indeed something about 28 February. 28 February represents very fittingly, a day when the joy arousing from the untamable muscular expression of amazement and fulfilment on the face of an employee is beheld by all who come in contact with him. On this day, the employee's joy is humanly inexpressible. He is happy that he doesn’t have to work for thirty days to get paid. He is happy because he had got himself an extension of three more days before the bank loan runs overdue. Consequently, the employer does not share in this intense feeling of happiness. He is dissatisfied by the emergence of February. He incessantly weeps over his thirty days budget which would have to run a three days loss as a result. It ...