today is Easter Sunday so naturally i ate about 5000 calories worth of food. in this family easter also means lots of egg salad tomorrow. and maybe for the next two weeks. but i don't really understand Easter.

but you always know it's Easter. egg-shaped candies go on sale and lots of closet-Catholics to go church. there's so many of them that it takes about twice as long to get out of the parking lot and two separate masses have to go on at the same time. what it really tells you is that twice as many people go to church on Easter. i think more people go to church on Easter than on Christmas. it's so weird. i thought more people liked the Baby Jesus more than the old unshaven-faced Jesus. even Talladega Nights will tell you that.

i have nothing against the old Jesus. i just don't understand it. i wish i did though so i wouldn't be complaining about it so much. people go to church in their best clothes. you see these littles girls in puffy pink dresses and white stockings and their brothers with collared shirts and ties on. i even saw this old filipino guy wearing a Barong, which really tells you Easter is so special. if you know what a Barong is, you'll know what i mean. and as for me, i didn't wear jeans to church today but i only had rainbows on my feet. clearly very half-assed according to Easter standards.

most Sundays people just go in their jeans and tshirts, if they even manage to get up in the morning after partying the night before. once again, what's so special about Easter? why can't people just go every Sunday and pretend it's Easter? i think that if you really believe in your faith, you should at least make the effort to go every Sunday. after all, isn't that what you're supposed to have learned in Sunday school?

i'm not saying i'm a good Catholic because i'm not. i think i'm more of a closet-Catholic type. i mean, i know the bible stories and what i should and shouldn't do so i could go up to heaven when i die and all that, but i don't really believe any of it. at least not in the literal sense. but i still try my hardest to go to church even when it's not Easter. but you should know that i go for a different reason. not for this thing they call faith but for something else. so does that make me a bad person? i hope not. but it annoys me when people show up to church only on Easter just to show they're not bad Catholics. do they even know what it means? or why there's always lots of eggs and egg-shaped candies and egg salad?