Redefining the Celebration of Life

Redefining the Celebration of Life

We all CELEBRATE LIFE, we all do.  Problem is, most of our celebrations are anchored on milestones, e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, awards.  Now, a year has passed, this pandemic is still all over us.  Shouldn't we redefine how to CELEBRATE LIFE ?  Frankly, I'd like to celebrate life sans those birthdays, anniversaries, achievements.  But instead, I'd like to celebrate life each morning when we wake up and a new day dawns for us and every evening when we hit the sack, thankful that we went through another day nary a setback that we are unable to face head-on.

Simply put, not being unwell is one cause to CELEBRATE LIFE.  Being with your loved ones is another reason.  And even if this pandemic caused you to be isolated for the past year away from your loved ones, I'll still celebrate life if till to date, I'm very much alive and breathing.  We don't need to dwell on milestone achievements because that's a given.  Hey, we should even be thankful to this pandemic because it led us to a long list of realizations.  Addie Joseph gives this insight in her content-heavy blog https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/18/coronavirus-pandemic-changes-the-way-people-celebrate-holidays.html.  Even traditions like the Passover became a 'Zoomover', like it or not.  

To quote Anne Lamott, 'even grim, uncertain times can hold sparks of love and light' @ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/12/dont-let-the-pandemic-rob-us-of-joyful-traditions/.

And if you're running out of thoughts how to enjoy life even in the simplest way even nary of any visible reason, take it from Marelisa Fabrega @ 

https://daringtolivefully.com/simple-ways-to-celebrate-life wherein she rattles off 50 'well thought' thoughts and you won't believe it, that 50ish list even includes things as mundane as 'walking barefoot through the grass or deliberately go for a walk through the rain and even step into the puddles'.

I heard a zillion times 'Garbage-in Garbage-out' but that's mostly in the technology space.  Now here comes Hugh Culver's blog wherein he harps and rattles off these unacceptable one-liners

📌 As soon as I'm done with my project, I can do that

📌 As soon as I lose weight, I can enjoy life 

📌 As soon as I receive the monies, we will enjoy life

📌 As soon as I lose weight, I'll be enjoying life more

To quote Hugh Culver: 'these statements is a SURE-FIRE WAY to MISS OUT on LIFE'.  It's like you're saying 'I'm not happy, therefore I'll never be happy' !@#&|@?

C'mon folks, let's celebrate life NOW as in NOW because here we are, healthy enough, surviving this pandemic !  BTW, tomorrow FEB 14th, we got another reason to celebrate, of course, because it's VALENTINE's Day. Happy Valentine's folks!