What does it Mean to Celebrate?

For those of you looking for an answer...I don't have one here...! you can either share your thoughts or move on.

Presumably, 4th July seemed to be a big day and I asked a couple of friends at the office about how it is celebrated? Everybody said, they would have a game/fireworks etc. That set the thought process of what celebrating really meant? When it is an independence that is being celebrated, I feel it should be in a true sense. I cannot mention anything in detail, coz I don't know.

Maybe, something like, free people from their credit burdens, provide them the freedom of not having to pay the late payment fee/service charges/tax on service charges. After all, credit card companies chase the customers until they take one. Once they have a customer in their bag, other internal departments take over the customer and try to lure him/her into so many schemes that most of the customers would fall into atleast one of them. After a certain point, a customer would realise there is no real value in that scheme and start sulking about how he could have avoided. The same goes with buying everything that you feel like having, start to think about how much a product is really utilised and worthy, before submitting yourself to your temptations.

This is similar to a ball that is rolled downhill on a snowy mountain which gathers all the snow around it and turns into a huge one which cannot be controlled. Just that probably snow may seem fun, but it does not feel really good when you have to pay a lot of money which you do not owe in the first place. I am assuming , when a person who has bad credit rating dies, that it does not affect his/her next generation or friends from securing loans.

Or, another way of celebrating independence is to provide financial freedom to deserving students who aspire to go to college or want to graduate from one. I know of situations where people sponsor candidates who go to elite schools, probably in the hope that they would be able to reap some benefits in the future. Not that most of such candidates have not gone through their share of problems and then turn out be really good later, but candidates from not so elite schools also should get such assistance, as some of them have a potentially worthy future. You never know, these kind of students can make this world a better place to live!

I would love to see, what you mean by celebrating in the true sense? Hope to have a discussion!