Another year, a new start, a new beginning, a new life (supposedly), handful of changes (good ones, fingers crossed), end of sorrows, a time to rejoice and a time for resolutions. This was just a quick glance at a few things that our heart desires with the passage of an year. I wish, I wish and I wish some more.
People like me, people like you and the ones who I did not include in the two lists wait for an entire year to start all over again, to give a new direction to our so called monotonous lives, to start living a life which they have dreamt of, to get off and get moving. A few like me would always resolve to shed off those extra kilos and restrain from shopping binges and a few like you would resolve to leave your jobs and move to better ones, tell that one person how much he/she means to him/her, the other few would resolve to spend some more quality time with their families, travel more, read more, get married, save more, work hard, give up smoking and drinking and a lot of other things that they failed to accomplish during the last year.
That gets me to thinking and asking the one question that we never want to answer. What has changed overnight? Except for the fact that we all get drunk on the last day of the year and resolve never to drink again. Except for the fact that we come home late in the night with parents sleeping and resolve to spend more quality time with them, but from tomorrow. Except for the fact we all party till the wee hours of morning and get our credit cards go crazy and resolve to save more from the very next day. Except for the fact that we just lied to someone about our where-abouts in an attempt to avoid them and we resolve to tell someone else how much he/she means to us, so that by the time this year ends, we would resolve to never lie again. Except for the fact that nothing except the day, the date and the year on the calendar has changed.
If you would not do it today, you will never do it tomorrow or ever. How can one lie today and resolve not to lie tomorrow? How can one eat a packet full of chips tonight and resolve to give up eating them tomorrow morning (12 in the midnight to be precise). How can one pretend to be incapable of thinking today and start to think the very next morning? How can one not live today or now and plans on living the very next day or for moment?
Weaving a dream world is what we humans are capable of. Fulfillment of those dreams rests either in the hands of God/fate or someone with a magical wand who will make things happen for us. Its only this realization in humans; the presence of a magical wand, the hand of an angel which stops them from doing all they can, from wishing all they want to and making them come true for as many times as possible.
With endless possibilities of reaching the shore, a sailor chooses but one way; to flow with the direction of the wind. Fate, a four letter word, a word very close to our hearts, a word we never cease to give up on, a word we rests our lives on, a word which has more meaning than life itself, a word which is hard for us to term it as 'just a word.'
An advent of new year, the beginning of a new calendar does not change anything but the dates on the sheets of thick paper. But waking up on the first day of the new year does make us realise that we need to make our lives better. I am again not an advocate on how to start your day today. All I know is that waking up each morning should be a motivation enough for us to make each day, each hour, each minute and each moment of our life count.
Life is an adventure. Some plan to take on it today and some of us wait for an entire year for the adventure to begin.
I would like to quote Samuel Johnson here. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
(P.S: You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know!!)
People like me, people like you and the ones who I did not include in the two lists wait for an entire year to start all over again, to give a new direction to our so called monotonous lives, to start living a life which they have dreamt of, to get off and get moving. A few like me would always resolve to shed off those extra kilos and restrain from shopping binges and a few like you would resolve to leave your jobs and move to better ones, tell that one person how much he/she means to him/her, the other few would resolve to spend some more quality time with their families, travel more, read more, get married, save more, work hard, give up smoking and drinking and a lot of other things that they failed to accomplish during the last year.
That gets me to thinking and asking the one question that we never want to answer. What has changed overnight? Except for the fact that we all get drunk on the last day of the year and resolve never to drink again. Except for the fact that we come home late in the night with parents sleeping and resolve to spend more quality time with them, but from tomorrow. Except for the fact we all party till the wee hours of morning and get our credit cards go crazy and resolve to save more from the very next day. Except for the fact that we just lied to someone about our where-abouts in an attempt to avoid them and we resolve to tell someone else how much he/she means to us, so that by the time this year ends, we would resolve to never lie again. Except for the fact that nothing except the day, the date and the year on the calendar has changed.
If you would not do it today, you will never do it tomorrow or ever. How can one lie today and resolve not to lie tomorrow? How can one eat a packet full of chips tonight and resolve to give up eating them tomorrow morning (12 in the midnight to be precise). How can one pretend to be incapable of thinking today and start to think the very next morning? How can one not live today or now and plans on living the very next day or for moment?
Weaving a dream world is what we humans are capable of. Fulfillment of those dreams rests either in the hands of God/fate or someone with a magical wand who will make things happen for us. Its only this realization in humans; the presence of a magical wand, the hand of an angel which stops them from doing all they can, from wishing all they want to and making them come true for as many times as possible.
With endless possibilities of reaching the shore, a sailor chooses but one way; to flow with the direction of the wind. Fate, a four letter word, a word very close to our hearts, a word we never cease to give up on, a word we rests our lives on, a word which has more meaning than life itself, a word which is hard for us to term it as 'just a word.'
An advent of new year, the beginning of a new calendar does not change anything but the dates on the sheets of thick paper. But waking up on the first day of the new year does make us realise that we need to make our lives better. I am again not an advocate on how to start your day today. All I know is that waking up each morning should be a motivation enough for us to make each day, each hour, each minute and each moment of our life count.
Life is an adventure. Some plan to take on it today and some of us wait for an entire year for the adventure to begin.
I would like to quote Samuel Johnson here. Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
(P.S: You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know!!)
Awesome Kanika.You just have snatched my words from me....
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