Second Cup: Anniversaries aren't just for romance

Celebrate more special milestones

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
tip is that anniversaries aren't just for romance. Sure, you
want to mark the date that you met or married

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your partner, but you can celebrate other special, personal or
professional dates too. Doing so is a great way to
show that something is important and to mark how far
you've come. My family moved into our new house in
early January of twenty twenty two. This was after a

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year long renovation project, so we had anticipated this move
for a long time. I remember that first night in
the new house as being kind of challenging. Most of
our furniture wasn't here yet, but it was the start
of a new chapter in our lives. We ate pizza

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on the floor and got to know the new place.
I now note the anniversary every year, how much the
house has changed, and how we've made memories here too.
Life features lots of anniversaries. This April, I will be

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celebrating nine years of tracking my time, so I plan
to note a time tracking anniversary. I will record my
celebration and my time log. Of course, I bet you
can recall lots of non romantic anniversaries too, perhaps when
you started running on Sunday mornings with your exercise buddy,

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or when you drank your last diet coke before going
soda free. Every year, there's the anniversary of the date
you closed on your new home, when you met your
best friend, or got your cat. All these moments are
worthy of celebration. While you probably remember the actual date
you got married, you may be a bit fuzzier on

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other anniversaries, but with some work, you can probably figure
out the specific date that important things started. For instance,
you may know that your first Sunday morning run with
your running buddy was the first Sunday of twenty fourteen.
You can easily figure out that date with an online calendar.

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Maybe your first soda free day was ash Wednesday of
twenty twenty two. That is an easy calendar find as well.
Plenty of paperwork will tell you the date you closed
on your home. Other moments, though, may be murkier. You
may know you met your best friend at a yoga
class sometime in May of twenty eighteen, or that you

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got your cat on a snowy day on New Years
of twenty twenty, but you may not know exactly when,
and that is okay. Just choose an approximate date to
mark the anniversary. No one is fact checking you. If
you would like to declare that January fifth is your

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cat's homecoming anniversary, you can go ahead and mark that
and celebrate it with certainty. Now, of course, once we
are celebrating lots of anniversaries, friendships, job milestones, pets, moving habits.
The individual celebrations probably aren't going to be huge, but

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it's nice to do a little something. Perhaps in keeping
with the theme of the event you are celebrating. You
and your running buddy could reenact your first run, same
length and location, or just go out for coffee after
the run nearest your anniversary to celebrate. Give your friend
a card to celebrate the anniversary of meeting, saying how

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much she means to you. You can mark years in
a home by planting something new. Life happens continuously. It
keeps passing, whether we think about it or not. Noting
anniversaries helps us pause and reflect. We can honor time
as it passes all the things we have stuck with,

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and that helps shape who we are. Our romantic relationships
shape us, of course, But so do many other things.
It's good to celebrate all of it. In the meantime,
This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach
me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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