Cards for all occasions!

Yesterday, two friends and myself went to a greeting card gallery to buy a card for a friend who was going to celebrate her birthday this week. When the G-card shops claim that they have cards for all occasions, I only thought they meant most of the occasions.Hence, the presence of cards to ask an apology, to wish farewell, to wish belatedly on the 5th day (of course, separate cards for the belated 6th day and 7th day wish) after the marriage anniversary didn’t amaze me. Nevertheless, it quite amazes me the way occasions pop up, kudos to the creativity of the G-card industry!
More often than not, I spend most of my time deriving ultimate fun reading the cards for occasions that I had not even dreamt of and when really running out of time, hastily pick the one for the occasion I had opted to buy and wind up. This time around, what struck me the most when I was, as usual, browsing through the stack of cards, was a card to be sent to a mourner for having lost his dear one on the day of death. I don’t know if others would feel the way I felt, but I found it ridiculous to send a flowery-but-deliberately-made-gloomy card to a person in grief, on a day of utmost grief. It was nothing but playing with people’s emotions as per my belief. When I expressed this to a friend who had accompanied me, she said without any surprise, “Why shocked at that? Have some patience and dig through the stack, you’ll definitely find a card to say ‘Miss you’ to the dead “! For a moment, I didn’t know where I was. Had I fallen unconscious? I hope, in the meantime, my friend hadn’t gone in search of a card to wish for a friend to regain consciousness at the earliest!