One of the things we do in our culture is observe birthdays and anniversaries.  Funny, really.   I mean, defined….. an anniversary is……  the date on which an event took place in a previous year. Same kind of deal with a birthday.  Second verse, same as the first.    I like it.  I am glad for them.  Not knocking them in any way.  You get ice cream and cake and presents… get to wear funny hats and blow up balloons.  Pin tails on donkeys and such.  It all oozes frivolity.   It is just sort of an oddity, if you really think about it, though.  I mean……who defined the year?   The calendar we “observe” is the Gregorian Calendar.  Who exactly is this Greg?  What makes him the calendar guru?

There are lots of different calendars out there.  Buddhist Calendars…. Julian Calendars, Lunar, Solar, Chinese, Islamic, Thai, Kurdish, Romanian, Mayan….. if you need a divergent calendar…. there’s got to be one out there for you somewhere….

But back to anniversaries.  Today’s date is the one day of the year that actually tells you to do something.  March 4th.  March  Forth. Kind of Neat-O-Guido, I think.  Conversely….say your birthday was September 23rd.  You can’t tell someone to “September 23rd” something.  “Hey you…..Go September 23rd.”  See… it just doesn’t work so well, does it?  But you can certainly tell someone to March Forth.  3.4.  It is an Inspirational Tony Robbins kind-of-date.

Today is a special birthday for me.  Not the day I plopped from the womb…. no.   But a different kind of birthday.  So I march forth.  Inspired.