Dates and Anniversaries....

Anniversaries and Jubilees...
Reading those two words, if you're a party lover, you might have felt that 'excitement' of hosting a special celebration! And if you're committed, especially if you're a guy, it might have sent a shiver down your spine! Especially if you've been committed long enough, the list of the type of gifts as per the number of years, is something that you probably have stored in your notes! First year paper, second year cotton... Well, I'm no subject matter expert at that, so I'll leave that list to be completed/googled by you!
So, what's the big fuss about these anniversaries? How important is a date to us? Ever wondered?

You forget to call your best friend on her birthday and you're toast! You forget the date of the first date with your partner, you better get yourself groomed again for the market! You forget your wedding anniversary, well let's just hope your best friend's couch is comfortable and that the takeout is good enough for your hunger!
People have seemed to have gotten so serious about it, that they even celebrate monthiversaries! Or maybe that's only because relationships these days have become so trivial that they last only in months...!  Whatever may be the reason... people have come up with it!
Do you love your spouse any more (or less) the day prior to (or after) the anniversary day than on the day of the anniversary?
Do you miss your dead acquaintance any lesser or more, the day before or after the death anniversary?
Do the 24 hrs on your birth day make you go from a kindergarten kid to a grandfather?
An anniversary does not change your life in any way overnight!
Nothing changes!! Except maybe your bank account balance, if your'e stupid enough to celebrate it!
You must know one thing, if you celebrate an anniversary, you are celebrating the 'date' rather than celebrating the moment!
If you really want to celebrate moments, celebrate every moment after that moment! If anything really was worth celebrating, you wouldn't make it sit on a time bomb! You would be crazy enough to celebrate it right then! You wouldn't and shouldn't be keeping track of these moments! You should be living joyfully every good consequence that it brought to you...
The fantastic and brilliant idea and concept of time, that has been developed in the form of calenders and clocks, I believe, is to serve a much different purpose, than to keep track of memories! Memories are memories because you can remember them... You don't have to put a clock on them and measure them! Calenders and clocks serve better as a tool to coordinate, than to remember! And maybe even make good tools to gauge your mental aptitude with respect to competitive exams! But, since that's not what I'm discussing here, it makes a bad argument...
Sometimes, these anniversaries do give us a reason to remember... certain stuff, that we might not remember unless the date on the calender reminds us of it... Even in these cases, What could have happened... on a particular day, in the past... such that you don't remember it, nothing in your present life reminds you of it, which should mean, nothing in your present life is affected by it, or is even remotely associated with it, but needs you to remember the date on which it happened? I doubt there's anything like that!
So let's not make a fuss about them, shall we?
P.S. Dedicated to every friend whose birthday I might have forgotten to wish on! I love and remember you just as much as I didn't remember to wish on your birthday, because you mean a lot more than just a date on the calender, to me!