July 20th is the day that Argentina and some of its surrounding countries celebrate the Day of Friendship. The day on which you get together with your best friends. Those friends that you have known for many years, since highschool or from your first football team and will always be there for you, no matter what. Whatever the political, economical or atmospherical climate, the Portenos, as inhabitants of Buenos Aires are known, never need much incentive to go out and have a good tine, but Dia del Amigo is one of those days that every restaurant, bar and cafe in the city is especially crowded with people hanging out with their longtime friends and often making some new ones in the process.
The Dia del Amigo was created by Argentine musician and odontologist Enrique Febrraro after the successful lunar landing by Neil Amstrong, Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on that same date in 1969. For him this new era of technology should also usher in a new age of making friends all over the planet.
Though in the end it became more popular as a day to celebrate existing friendships instead of forming new ones, in these days where people have hundreds of digital Facebook "friends", it's a very nice idea that we still have this analogue way to get in touch with our oldest and bestest friends. So next 20th of July don't forget to invite your best friend to a night of unbridled drinking to celebrate. The headache the next day at work is more than worth it. After all: that's what friends are for!
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