Happy Assumption of Mary Day!
I’m celebrating by exploring a few of the assumptions Mary might have made
3 min readAug 15, 2022
Today (15 August) is a public holiday here in Barcelona. It’s Assumption Day, aka Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God, or the Feast of the Assumption.
I don’t know much about Catholic things. But I do know a lot about assumptions. Sometimes I make them.
Ergo, I’ve decided to celebrate Assumption Day with some good ole assumptions that a woman named Mary may have made.
- Mary assumed when she had children her partner would perform 50% of the parenting and never refer to parenting as “babysitting” or take the kids to his mother’s when he was supposed to be taking care of them.
- Mary assumed hateful people with orange skin and bad ideas would never get elected as the leader of a world superpower.
- Mary assumed decent public healthcare would be available for all.
- Mary assumed everyone shared her love of yacht rock.
- Mary assumed a small, mongrel island would prefer to remain in a union with a larger continent that had better food and weather.
- Mary assumed everyone agreed that dogs were better than cats.
- Mary assumed there would be just as many female managers at her company as there were male managers.
- Mary assumed mullets would never come back in fashion.
- Mary assumed if she ever made a choice not to continue with a pregnancy she’d have access to safe, affordable and legal abortion.
- Mary assumed if she wanted to go to a concert she could buy tickets in her own time without worrying about them selling out.
- Mary assumed she could have respectful conversations on a number of topics with all people, whether or not they agreed with her.
- Mary assumed if she wanted to visit her family who lived overseas the flight tickets would be reasonably priced.
- Mary assumed Australia would be a republic.
- Mary assumed as long as she ate reasonably she’d always keep the same trim figure she had in her early 20s.
