May is the most narcissistic of all the months. It begins with one Zodiac representation—Taurus, which is already a badass bull—and ends as Gemini, two human beings, a.k.a. the apex predators.
May is the most self-referential month of them all*:
- Before it even begins, everyone’s all, “It’s gonna be May.“
- On day one there’s the celebration of May Day.
- There’s Star Wars Day with, “May the fourth be with you.”
- Cinco de Mayo proves how important keeping the month in the name of the celebration matters to languages other than English.
- It ends with Maymorial Day (which my spellchecker is telling me to fix but I won’t).
I have no doubt May was the one who started saying, “April showers bring May flowers,” as a slam against all the other months (especially April).
With all that evidence in hand, I declare the motto of May to be:
All eyes on May.
*It helps that most of the months don’t work as words on their own. March is the only one with a fighting chance but how often do people outside of parades and the military even use the word March?
