Yet another year up or is it yet another year down? Was the year gone by good? Is the New Year going to be better? Every December 31 and January 1 comes as a package - of thoughts- Right from tiring questions like, “Will I buy a house, car, change job, marry, have kids, earn more,?” to even practical little worries like, “It is time I started writing 2007 instead of 2006 when I wrote the date,” “It is time I renewed my resolutions of eating less chocolates or drinking less, be it coffee or alcohol,(because not eating/drinking at all is equal to death, which leads to a sublimal level of not bothering about New Years and their package of resolutions).In a practical world where a mad rat race to achieve materialistic joys is the order of the day, I am sometimes scared I would start thinking like the mad mad mad world, “What’s so new about New Year?” It is also worthwhile to jump into Steve Wonder’s shoes and say, it does not require a New Year’s day to say “those three words.” But what’s so much about this New Year or any New Year for that matter?
Lots of money being pumped into the market giving economy a boost, lots of merriment happening, giving every personality a high and lots of expectations and hopes, giving everybody an emotional Thumbs up! Why does the whole world get impacted by a New Year? Why do leading journals come up with collectors’ items? You like it or not New Year is a milestone, it is a bookmark, it is a measure, a standard, a touchstone call it whatever you want. New Year gives you a feeling of freshness, a chance to forget the defeats of the past and revive hope. It helps you make a balance sheet of life, even if it is for one year, giving life some time to breathe.
Imagine a life without New Year. Where would you pause to realize what is happening with you? At what pace would you compare your life’s achievements and losses? Where would you look upto to set goals and dreams? Without New Year, the continuity of life even if it only has only good things, will get monotonous. Thank God we have New Year, for whatever reasons. A New Year is dead. Long live the New Year!
Deepa Ramachandran
Lots of money being pumped into the market giving economy a boost, lots of merriment happening, giving every personality a high and lots of expectations and hopes, giving everybody an emotional Thumbs up! Why does the whole world get impacted by a New Year? Why do leading journals come up with collectors’ items? You like it or not New Year is a milestone, it is a bookmark, it is a measure, a standard, a touchstone call it whatever you want. New Year gives you a feeling of freshness, a chance to forget the defeats of the past and revive hope. It helps you make a balance sheet of life, even if it is for one year, giving life some time to breathe.
Imagine a life without New Year. Where would you pause to realize what is happening with you? At what pace would you compare your life’s achievements and losses? Where would you look upto to set goals and dreams? Without New Year, the continuity of life even if it only has only good things, will get monotonous. Thank God we have New Year, for whatever reasons. A New Year is dead. Long live the New Year!
Deepa Ramachandran
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