To celebrate
To Celebrate
1: to do something special or enjoyable for an important event, occasion, holiday, etc. We are celebrating my birthday by going out to dinner. The family gathered to celebrate Christmas.
2formal: to praise (someone or something): to say that (someone or something) is great or important. The book celebrates the movies of the past. Her lecture celebrated the genius of the artist.
3formal: to perform (a religious ceremony)
To quote a friend of mine “why celebrate”? Why spend the time and energy on holidays and yearly occurrences that encourage festivities? What is the point? Well, many of us would respond with it is fun”. Others might say it is the right thing to do”. While still others might simply say, “why not”.
But to be honest, why do we celebrate? Why do we take the time to remember birthdays or holidays? What dictates or encourages this moment of revelry that we stop our normal daily activities and insert these moments?
As time goes on, I have found it more difficult to stop or interrupt my standard activities to celebrate birthdays. Is this wrong? Does it show disrespect to the person whose birth it is? There are times I believe it is while others I hardly notice. What is the agenda of a celebration apart from taking time to remember? Does there need to be more?
Remembering important days or events that have transpired. Stopping the standard to add the moment of recognition. Intentionally taking a moment to address a unique event. While birthdays are in and of themselves hardly unique, they are in the individual life.
As America pauses to celebrate thanksgiving it is a time to remember. A time to reflect on history and family. A moment rescued from our daily lives, set aside to recall the past. President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", calling on the American people to also, "with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience .. fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation...". Lincoln declared it for the last Thursday in November.
Just curious, what were you told thanksgiving was for?
Next time you celebrate, do take the time to stop and remember the reason regardless of the season or event and truly celebrate.
Blessings!
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Comments
Pascal Derrien
2 years ago #8
Every day celebration with a smile :)
Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris
2 years ago #7
Indeed. And yet thanks to all the traveling restrictions because of green passes and case numbers, this is more difficult than ever before…
Lada 🏡 Prkic
2 years ago #6
Greg, for me, there is no doubt whether to celebrate. What's important is to celebrate together something we value.
Greg Rolfe
2 years ago #5
@Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris, a celebration is a transcendental bridge. Huh, I have never looked at it that way, or to be honest even close. I will think on it. Thank you.
Greg Rolfe
2 years ago #4
That idea strikes a note. Life is in fact celebration or perhaps celebration is what life is about. Something for me to think about. Thank John\Joanne.
Ken Boddie
2 years ago #3
Sounds too much like “sell a Brit” to me, Greg. 😂🤣😂
Zacharias 🐝 Voulgaris
2 years ago #2
For me, it's a kind of ritual, a transcendental bridge to the timeless dimension. Gratitude lives in such a place, so taking a day off our busy lives to reconnect to that sentiment is worth the effort. Cheers
John Rylance
2 years ago #1
Life is what you celebrate All of it Even the end
Joanne Harris