Rites and Rituals

Noticing today the importance of honouring the events in our lives. Some celebrations, are so embedded in our culture that we do not even question their significance…. We see weddings from a distance or birthdays being celebrated in restaurants and barely give them a second glance. They are the norm, they are just what people do…
But the older (& wiser?), I get, the more I recognise that these markers in our lives perform differing functions and carry great importance.

The prospect of my son’s last day at his nursery, after two years of consistently excellent support, made me tearful. Whist the questions of ‘what will the next bit be like for him’ and ‘what will I do without them’ are normal, to dismiss them wouldn’t lessen them. So to hear them, to celebrate that time and to offer gratitude for all the brilliance of that provision, gives it the respect it is due and enables us to move forward.

Choosing to leave a job to follow a new career path involves not the individual alone. The decision impacts on partners and ‘dependants’, and it requires the emotional well-wishing and practical assistance of friends and colleagues alike. A celebration thus performs the function of not only making closure of a past chapter but also the invitation of all that person’s support network into the new phase. 

Letting go of ‘the old’ is essential if we are to move forward. Making a success of the future depends not only on us as individuals alone. Best we use celebration to honour that which is passing and to invite the future to join us.

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