Wow! Occasions and Celebrations…… A part and parcel of our lives.
Be it an adult, old or young, getting all glitzy for a family wedding, a social event, a birthday or be it just a happy day is enough an excuse to create an occasion to enjoy. All around the globe, I am sure most of us love to “celebrate” and we look for small events or occasions to praise and be a part of it. Don’t we?
Talk to any elderly and they will tell you to offer prayers or take blessings on your birthday. Rituals have become an important part in our life, be it just out of a recurring habit or a strong belief. We celebrate events that “we” feel are important to us. For some, a birthday might be just another passing year with age, be humble enough to keep it a personal low key affair, some might just love to splurge a few lakhs sailing to an island on a lovely cruise and for some it would be a magnanimous ceremony publicly and for another it would just be a gathering with close ones over dinner. Well, well, well…. Whether we celebrate a “particular” – “specific” festive event, birthdays or solemnize a marriage ceremony, it doesn’t mean that rest of the days can’t be celebrated. Aha…how about baking your favourite cake at home” Yummy!
What is your central or innermost feeling of being alive? Do you have an identity that you inherited from your ancestors or made it yourself? What are the parenting roots that you want to inherit to your children? Parenting is not something that you learn from books alone. You need to have your own perspective of one -how you want your children to be and second – allow them to choose their path, after you have taught them the basics right. You are only a guide in their journey.
Oops, so back to celebrations. 🙂
As we set out to celebrate a victory, a new job, promotion, a birthday or just another special day, whatever your reason may be, what matters is “how you feel” at that moment. Many of us could be attending an event, showing our presence, but “faking a smile”. Just because one smiles or laughs, doesn’t mean he/she is happy. Yet celebrate with all the scars and wounds. Recognise the positive aura of the celebration. Well, we can adapt or renew our mind-set. Refurnish the chemicals in your body to have a “feel good” feeling. Sharing success can double your happiness and feel motivated. They are moments in your life that can say “you are doing a good job”. It boosts your wellbeing. We should commemorate that event with thankfulness.
Have you celebrated yourself? – “ME”. Think over it. Maybe you could do it right away. What legacy will we leave behind?
Celebration is “light” over “dark”. And this diverts me to a very “Non-typical” topic – “A celebration of the future”.
– Maybe the way we celebrate will change. They could be more uplifting and transcending and more virtual. Technology will play a very vital role in celebrating life’s events. Will it outgrow humility and humanity? What will be the main elements or key factors to celebrate a novelty or a status or a special event? We are now living in a millennium where we have innumerable choices and remarkable well designed, well able structure of technology where it can run any chore on a press of a button. Debateable, but are we looking forward to an aesthetic wellbeing? Will there be a plague of loneliness or a river of happiness, that only time will tell.
So, summing it up, celebration is enlightenment, an awakening, a candle in the darkness. Celebrate the future, present and the past. Live! Dream!