According to dictionary.com the definition of Anniversary is as follows:
–adjective
4. returning or recurring each year; annual.
5. pertaining to an anniversary: an anniversary gift. Abbreviation: anniv.
So what do you think?
Is an anniversary the celebration of our relationship's recurrence or the celebration of our individual return to the relationship each year?
Are we really celebrating that we made it through another year?
If you are in a strong, respectable, loving, "I'm soooooo in love with you" kinda relationship should you have to or do you feel the need to celebrate your return or the fact you made it through another year? With that kinda relationship wouldn't you assume you'd make it through another year... or even eternity for that matter?
I guess what I'm wondering is, we all know that relationships are hard, take lots of patience, and sometimes do not last but maybe subconsciously we all expect them not to last anyhow. With the way the world turns now a days, every other person who reads this post has had their heart broken or knows of someone who has given it their all just to come out alone in the end anyways. So maybe when we complete another year we are all (subconsciously) thinking "Damn! Another year??!!...Well shit, maybe love really does endure and/or exist."
Maybe we are all authors at heart, still writing our fairy tales while the pessimistic world around us leads us to believe the fairytale is riding us, taking us for a ride. Maybe our anniversaries are our alarm clocks ringing "God Damn, another year? Maybe fairy tales do come true?!" But without any factual evidence this can't even be considered a legitimate hypothesis.
This is my two year anniversary to myself.
Talk about fairy tales...
