Happy Anniversary

A year is a long time; that we all know. However just how long a time is it? 12 months, 54 weeks, 365 days, countless minutes and seconds. Yet many of us disregard “anniversaries” of all sorts.

For some a year is nothing but a mere passing of time, for others it’s a momentous victory having survived the treacherous job, the punishing studies, finding and losing relations or winning a small battle against that lethal illness.. As can be seen, it is an event or events that form the basis against which we value the passing of a year.

An event can make us cherish that year or loath it, embed it in our memory or erase it; all it takes is a single event.

I am not too sure what I am trying to achieve through this entry. I just feel saddened by the lacklustre attitude some people have towards days that mark events in our life or even history. How can they so conveniently disregard an event that contributed in some manners to what we are, how we are and where we are today? Give up that attitude and embrace the marking of another event in life, in your, mine and ours.

Don’t forget to say Happy Anniversary the next time an event completes yet another year. It is only from our past that we can shape our future.

Happy Anniversary