If you have been blessed enough to see your 60th wedding anniversary, then you will certainly want to make the most of it. How many of your friends can you say are as lucky as you have been? You are probably one out of only thousands of people in the world today who get to experience what you are experiencing. You have been with your spouse for longer than most people have been or will be alive. Needless to say that is quite an accomplishment, and it should be treated as one. I am sure you have gotten over the stress of buying anniversary gifts long ago, given the fact you probably know your loved one like the back of your own hand.

One thing is for sure, even though you have given your spouse just about everything one could imagine by now, there is still more to be given. I am not talking about materialistic things, I am talking about love and appreciation. Think about how long your loved one has stood by you and been there for you in your relationship. Think about all of the nights spent with your loved one in the past sixty years. If you do the math, you have spent approximately 22,000 nights with your spouse! That translates to roughly 528,000 hours, or 31,680,000 minutes that you have been married to your husband or wife! I won't go into how many seconds that is..okay why not.. that's roughly 2 BILLION seconds that you have been married to your husband or wife! Now that is a long time!

So after all this time, what can you do for your spouse that you haven't already done for them? Well the key is not to do form them what you haven't done for them, but to do for them what you have always done for them, and that is love them! This anniversary need not be about gifts or cakes, or even celebrations at all! It should be a simple yet powerful celebration of your love for each other. This can be done through a simple speech or a poem. The poem doesn't even have to rhyme, and you don't even need public speaking skills to deliver the speech! All you need is genuine care for your loved one to make even the simplest poem as touching as a dramatic end-scene in a movie!