Being a personal reflection on the importance of anniversaries
As anybody who reads my blogs knows, I think that that anniversaries are important. One piece of feedback I received was to stop ‘banging on about them’. I value feedback but I reject this suggestion because I have seen that recognising anniversaries can be a strong force for good. This is true emotionally, but also practically. They serve as landmarks in the temporal landscape. They are an aide memoire of the lessons from major events and a benchmark to mark our progress or decline. They also allow us to respectfully reflect on lives lost and loss endured. Of course for those with personal connections with disasters anniversaries have a deeper and rawer significance. From a professional point of view we do well to remember the contributions of our forebears. Their efforts are no less important than our own. Today my appointments took me through Moorgate station in the City of London and as always my thoughts turned to the horrors of 28th February 1975. Next year will see th