The small celebration marks something you want your own attention to remember.

Marking an occasion is a message to your future self more than to anyone else. Without a marker, good stretches blur into the general run of weeks and become impossible to locate later, while difficulties stay sharp because they came with events. A small celebration puts a pin in something so your memory has somewhere to return to. The audience is you, months from now, trying to remember whether anything went well.

Mark the next modest thing that goes right, even privately. A meal you would not otherwise have made, a note in a diary, one photograph: enough to give the week an edge you can find again.