Celebrate great flavors. Celebrate the small realizations. Celebrate that hot pair of jeans. Celebrate friendships. Celebrate your existence. Celebrate ten free throws in a row. Celebrate your victories!
We’ve often wondered if one of the many reasons we like sports is that we get permission to celebrate. In the rest of life, we’re told to work harder, be more serious, save more money, and, if we do well, we’re told that we better not celebrate too much because you never know what tomorrow will bring. But in sports, we get to cheer and raise our arms for every good play. Two free throws in a row gets us a roomful of high fives. If our team happens to win a game, we can really jump and shout! And instead of frowning at us, everybody else in the room (or the stadium) is jumping and shouting too.
It feels really good to celebrate, and there’s evidence that the act of celebration itself creates positive chemical responses in the body and brain. If you don’t celebrate your victories, how will you feel that you’ve done something worth celebrating? In our view, you better celebrate when you can, because you never know what tomorrow will bring. So go ahead, stand up, raise your arms, lean back, and shout at the top of your lungs, “Aw-right!”
