Happy Anniversary To You

(sing the below to the tune of Happy Birthday to You.)

Happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary to (anyone celebrating an anniversary). Happy anniversary to you.

I was just thinking about birthdays and the fact that if your not dead, you get to celebrate one each year you continue living. I guess that really is something good to celebrate, but is it really something everyone should celebrate? Let me ask it this way. Should it be celebrated by others to the extent that we normally celebrate birthdays considering you, I or anyone else really does nothing of accomplishment or deserving of a celebration, other than eat, sleep and breath, when it comes to birthdays?

Birthdays are something everyone has. Young and old, black and white, men and women. To have one, you just need to make sure you don't die. That's it! Don't die. Keep breathing. It's really not that hard. Provinding your parents did a half-way decent job of raising you, you should make it to your sex and race's average life expectancy. Don't play in traffic. Don't play with loaded guns. Respect the laws of gravity and don't jump off buildings. It's not really very hard to stay alive.

On the other hand, a wedding anniversary is something to celebrate for sure. A wedding anniversary is something everyone should recognize and celebrate. From what I hear and based on the divorce rate in America, staying married is not nearly as easy as living. It takes lots of things. I'm not married, but know it takes patience, commitment, equal goals and the desire to make your spouse happy amongst many many other things.

My point is....every year we make such a big deal over birthdays. To remember a childs birthday and celebrate it is fun makes sense to me. Hell, it makes sense to me to celebrate the birthday of someone that makes it to the ripe old age of 90. I don't think we should not celebrate birthdays for everyone, I just think we should celebrate wedding anniversaries more and recognize the efforts that go into keeping a marriage together.

I'd like to write more, but an annoying person that wants to give me money for my service keeps calling me. Probably because I told them I'd be there 45 minutes ago. Anyway, I've got to go for now, but will probably come back to this post later.

In the meantime, think about it.