Anniversaries

Written for all survivors - and I know there a lot

Ask someone, just anyone that crosses by chance your way and he will tell you what anniversaries are, what people connect mostly at first with that word, what is usually said they are:

Anniversaries are beautiful days, days to remember important and special events in one or many people's lives, events that wake positive emotions inside you, that make you smile, even cry from total pure happiness and they call for celebration because a year has passed. Three hundred sixty-five days. Fifty-two weeks. 12 months. A year - and the anniversary is there, just waiting to be thought of, expected to be celebrated.

There are anniversaries, celebrated among the circle of family and friends. For instant everyone looks forward to birthdays, usually connected with parties, happiness and fun. They are days on which a loved one’s birth is celebrated - a new. People count the years of one’s presence on earth and they are grateful for their loved one being in this world with them, for another year they were here together and another year to look forward to, many years yet to come. Health, a long life and everything the loved ones wish to happen people wish them.

Among the dearest, we also celebrate wedding days each year a new, all important because once more two lovebirds have lived a year out together, expressing their love to the world. Sometimes, some years, this day is even more special than in other years - the silver wedding, the golden wedding, the diamond wedding and so many others. Jubilees each year, each a name - each special, some weighed more, some weighed less in the family and friends’ opinion. Always special to the united lovers.

Other anniversaries are shared among bigger groups like colleagues, people of one generation, a social group, an ethnic group, a city, a whole area, a country or even the world. We celebrate anniversary of a building opened, an organization born, a state founded, a war ended, a treaty signed. We remember the destruction of something old and the birth of something new, something better. Always happy about this event. Always tears of happiness in our eyes, not at all with the bitter salty aftertaste tears should have. Rather sweet and not at all embarrassing. It is an anniversary and we are allowed to cry of happiness, a crying not worth called crying as it origins from beauty, from hope, from an event what made us happy and each day again and again. Each year again and again.

Though they may lose importance in the years passing for some people but there are always going to be some people willing to remember. That way, other people are reminded of once birth - though some don't care about this person; about a wedding - though grandchildren or even closer relatives might find it annoying to have to come together; about a building - though it is probably boring for many forced to come and only an unimportant date except for politicians; about an organization - though some people would not care if it still existed or not; about a treaty - though some people take it as granted and not worth being recognized each year a new as it is there; about a destruction and a new beginning and about a war ended - though some people cannot weigh its important as high as time witnesses would.