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Even as I was wading through the social networking sites, bang on my profile, I was being asked the question – “What are you up to?” I saw a lot of people had updated posts such as “Happy New Year to all”, “God knows what will come my way in 2010”, “God save me this new year!” and some messages of outright disregard such as “New year – so what’s the freaking deal?” These posts kept me thinking for a while. Well, as far as I see, New Year is a convenient time to carry out extensive post mortems of the year gone by and star gaze through predictions for the year/s to come... No matter what, at the end of the day, life just goes on!
Then comes another New Year tradition where people religiously assume resolutions upon themselves. Phew! What an exercise at caressing the self-introduced overwhelming outpour of human obsession with their imaginary ‘better-selves’! Well, I too belonged to this extremist outfit of traditional ‘annual resolution makers’ but gave up on it because of the historic results from these vain exercises. Don’t get me wrong on this - the spirit of making resolutions for personal betterment is not something I am against! What I despise is the continued use of this exercise as a mere mental cushion to convince oneself that ‘a step taken in the right direction bodes well for oneself’. What people forget is that more often than not that very first step ends up becoming the last step as well! It is this turn of events that I so much deride.
Perhaps the only thing that I have wished upon myself to do the entire year is – “Have fun! Live life to the fullest!” It is definitely easier said than done. Most of the human race is hurling fervently towards death forgetting the most important thing in life – to live! We live the life that others want us to live; we create an illusionary persona and delve so deep that our real identity faces a crisis! We live our lives according to the terms set by the world. And we say “It’s my life”? What on earth does that mean?Anyway that’s enough of whining that I have done! The quintessence of this entire exposition is that I have to live life to the fullest, on my own terms. No radical thoughts here – just the simple dictum that I will enjoy everything that I do and do everything that I enjoy (in no particular order). 2010 – here I come!
Then comes another New Year tradition where people religiously assume resolutions upon themselves. Phew! What an exercise at caressing the self-introduced overwhelming outpour of human obsession with their imaginary ‘better-selves’! Well, I too belonged to this extremist outfit of traditional ‘annual resolution makers’ but gave up on it because of the historic results from these vain exercises. Don’t get me wrong on this - the spirit of making resolutions for personal betterment is not something I am against! What I despise is the continued use of this exercise as a mere mental cushion to convince oneself that ‘a step taken in the right direction bodes well for oneself’. What people forget is that more often than not that very first step ends up becoming the last step as well! It is this turn of events that I so much deride.
Perhaps the only thing that I have wished upon myself to do the entire year is – “Have fun! Live life to the fullest!” It is definitely easier said than done. Most of the human race is hurling fervently towards death forgetting the most important thing in life – to live! We live the life that others want us to live; we create an illusionary persona and delve so deep that our real identity faces a crisis! We live our lives according to the terms set by the world. And we say “It’s my life”? What on earth does that mean?Anyway that’s enough of whining that I have done! The quintessence of this entire exposition is that I have to live life to the fullest, on my own terms. No radical thoughts here – just the simple dictum that I will enjoy everything that I do and do everything that I enjoy (in no particular order). 2010 – here I come!
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