The Anniversary Effect

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00][Music - Slow piano] friends chatting (barely audible) Oi! Oi Spacey Chick!

[00:00:43]Anyone home?

[00:00:44]Hey that's not cool!

[00:00:47]She's the girl who's... (inaudible) Mia (distant) Mia I just wanted to check in and see how you're doing today Okay You decided to come to school Parents said I didn't have to  if I didn't want to but Some people like to mark the  anniversary by doing something Yeah, mum and dad are going  to the graveyard after work Will you go with them?

[00:01:40]I don't really think of him as being there so... You don't ever visit?

[00:01:45]Gravesides can be  a place where our grief can have space and anniversaries can be a chance for us to focus... It's just another day Look, it's completely understandable to  want to avoid those feelings of grief because they're painful but the pain is something we've got to go through We can't go around it Do you want to talk about it?

[00:02:15]No I really don't Well, ok If you change your mind I'm always here How was it?

[00:02:43]Waste of time, as usual So you didn't tell her anything as usual Hey Mia I'm having a party this weekend You should come Oh um, thanks Maybe You're not going to go are you No So?

[00:03:17]Don't you think you should be  hanging out with the others?

[00:03:21]What are you saying? You're sick of me?

[00:03:22]No! I'm saying this isn't healthy I don't want to hang out with anyone else Why not?

[00:03:27]You used to I'm not myself anymore Nobody expects I hate myself when I'm around other people I'm like like flat and low I... Why don't you tell Alice what you just told me?

[00:03:51]She only invited me to be nice No! she invited you because she cares about you!

[00:03:56]You've just got to try... I don't want to try Tom!

[00:04:01]I don't even want to get up in the morning!

[00:04:03]Everything is tiring. This is tiring!

[00:04:09]All this bull about time heals all, no it doesn't!

[00:04:15]So you've given up [Music] [Music fades] Okay everyone Good morning how are we?

[00:04:35]So we have four days (dialogue fades) so all of it including the report all right (distant) so if you need a refresher on  how to do one of those (dialogue fades) [Piano Music - Drama by Piano Amor (LesFM)] [Music continues] Where the hell were you?

[00:05:10]You can't just disappear like that!

[00:05:19]I think we should stop hanging out What! Why?

[00:05:30]Okay okay okay I'm sorry You're right, I can do this I'll try harder I'll sit with the friends, I'll go to the party, whatever Please!

[00:05:48]No no no you can't do this! Not today!

[00:05:52]You've got to move on Please!

[00:06:07]Okay I'll meet you after school Where?

[00:06:14]You know where You know I can't go there Yes you can!

[00:06:30][Music ends] Mia!

[00:06:39]Hey, I know today's... today's the... the Anniversary?

[00:06:45]Yeah It must be hard. How you feeling?

[00:06:52]Pretty crap actually I know what you feel like I miss having him around Take care, eh Thanks [Piano/Orchestral Music - Grief And Despair by Steven O'Brien] [Music swells] [Music fades] You know, the the dog sleeps on your bed every night None of us could go in there  but every night she sleeps on it Even now, when a scooter comes down the  hill she'll run to the door and just wait Sometimes, when I'm not awake properly, I think I hear you in the kitchen, or in the shower and everything feels right and everything feels good and then I wake up like mum and dad they try, they really do, but they have each other and you my person, you know?

[00:09:29]and now you're gone and you're always gonna be gone and it just hurts [Music] [Music - Slow piano motif] [Music - last piano note fades] [Guitar Music - Pieces of Love by Oleksii Kaplunskyi (LesFM)] [Music - continues] Hey! Mia!

[00:11:52][Music - continues] [quiet chatting] [Music ends]