I found the reason

It’s the season of Friendship. August is the month for friends. All our inboxes are overflowing with forwards glorifying friendship. Friendship Bands have been on whooping sales. Special offers everywhere. Be it garments or gift shop, friends are flocking together everywhere. Thanks to the new trend in IT industry, all beach resorts too are full on weekends. And all this attention for what? Yes it’s for FRIENDSHIP DAY!

And here comes the famous argument “Do we need a dedicated day called Friendship day?”
Why not? All mothers love their kids. But have you seen the spark; that extra happiness sprinkled all around her face on your birthday? Does that mean she loves you more on your birthday? Not at all. Our age and lifestyle demands that we spend most of our time either with ourselves or with our friends. In due course we forget that there are people around who require our attention, care and concern. Slowly we learnt their yearning for us and decided to dedicate special days as Mother’s day, Father’s day, etc. And one fine day it struck to us that “Don’t we need a special day for our friend’s who made us forget all our other dear and nears?” And thus evolved the concept of Friendship day!

Note: All reasons stated in the above blog are true (only) to my knowledge.