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Milestone Celebrations: How and Why We Make Special Birthdays or Anniversaries Life-Affirming Events
In his book From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives (Villard Books, 1995), Robert Fulghum notes, “rituals are timed by beats of the heart, not ticks of the clock.” The same goes for the milestones of a life: There is no set date for each. But we know in our hearts when that liminal time is upon us.
For Shusterman, it was the realization that, at 60, she had outlived many of her relatives. For Ross, it was retirement after a lifetime of work. For Chin, it was the memory of her parents, old at age 50, and a recognition of her own contrasting vitality and ability to keep on growing and meeting new challenges. So ignore the numbers; just listen to your heart. It’ll tell you when a threshold is approaching and will guide you to the right observance of that transition.
Joy Elbaum is a lawyer and a freelance writer who is facing her own milestone birthday in a few months.
For Shusterman, it was the realization that, at 60, she had outlived many of her relatives. For Ross, it was retirement after a lifetime of work. For Chin, it was the memory of her parents, old at age 50, and a recognition of her own contrasting vitality and ability to keep on growing and meeting new challenges. So ignore the numbers; just listen to your heart. It’ll tell you when a threshold is approaching and will guide you to the right observance of that transition.
Joy Elbaum is a lawyer and a freelance writer who is facing her own milestone birthday in a few months.
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