Celebration

What do we celebrate?
From the most recent to the earliest, we celebrate an Oscar. We celebrated when ARR won for an English movie. It would be unfair to say that it is great to win an Oscar. Its much more than that. But why did he have to wait that long? What becomes the criterion for the nomination? For the music to be nominated, should the movie also be classic? To be recognized, should one be a part of a winning group? The last question is a general question, not pertaining to just the Oscars.
We celebrated Bindra's gold and Vijender's bronze. What after that? They got a few brand endorsements and the country moved on with Cricket. Why is this celebration so short? Years back we celebrated Karnam Malleshwari the same way and then she faded into the oblivion.
We celebrated Sania's rise in the rankings' ladder and will again do that when she climbs again, since she fell down in between somewhere. We criticized her for things outside tennis and blamed her for loss of concentration!
We celebrated Kalpana Chawla and Sunitha Rao's excursion out of the planet. We celebrated Amartya Sen's Nobel Prize. We celebrate every success as our own, though they might not have stepped on this soil for decades.
Why do we count our celebrations? Why don't we have enough reasons within to celebrate? Why don't we continue on the celebrations? Why?!!
The author partly shoulders the blame for these whys since she hasn't done anything but ask these questions.