The Pat Files: Priorities

As usual, I'm going to blog about some annoying thing I've seen on my Facebook newsfeed, make elaborate comments on it like I always do and give my twopence worth about what I feel about it like anyone gives a damn. Oh well, I just like to get things off my chest and this is the only safe and legal way for me to do so regardless of whether anyone actually reads my blog or not.

So, I've been seeing these happy couples celebrating their anniversaries with their partners by declaring them on Facebook and all their friends wishing them long and prosperous lives together. Not that I have a problem with that, except for the fact that these so-called anniversaries are actually month-aversaries where they make a huge deal of being together after three months. Three bloody months. Like that's some huge accomplishment. What?!

Someone once told me, why count? There's no point to it. Come to think about it, we never celebrate any of our other relationships. We don't hug our friends and go "this day ten years ago, we became friends" and neither do we celebrate the anniversaries of relationships far more important to us like our parents. I'm not talking about Mother's or Father's Day where the whole world celebrates them in unison but I'm talking about the actual day you built your personal relationship with them. No-brainer alert that that day would be your birthday but you celebrate your birthday as the day you came into this world and not the day you became your parent's son or daughter.

So, think about it. We don't keep tabs on these relationships because you know they are going to last and will be there to follow you through every walk of your life. You know they aren't going anywhere so there is no need to count. The moment you put a timeframe on something, it's as if you are anticipating the fate that it has an expiration date and you are under pressure to see how long you can withhold it before it burns out.? If love is really supposed to be as fun and easy as they say, why put it under such pressure like this? Why tie it down to a ticking timebomb that goes under the guise of anniversaries?

And no, I don't believe in celebrating anniversaries because every day you are with the person you love should be cherished, not just on the day you met them. They shouldn't be celebrated because they shouldn't be regarded as accomplishments for being loyal to someone for any given period of time. It's nothing to be proud of. If it is indeed like any other relationship, it should be natural and effortless and just there.

Who knew I secretly had a hopeless romantic in me, aye? But no, seriously. This is about as practical as I can get when it comes to relationships.

I thank a very special friend for imparting this wisdom onto me :)

Source: http://patsychong.blogspot.com/2012/10/priorities.html

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