New year indeed!
It was two or three years ago, as another year was approaching the end, I had written in these very same pages, that New Year celebrations are all a sham.
While I still do think that welcoming a new year need not involve extravaganza, I now differ in my attitude over the celebrations.
A year is 12 months long, there is so much change contained in these 12 months. We are not the same person we were when we entered 2018. We have seen a year’s growth, we have had a year’s experience, and that calls for celebration.
A year is 52 weeks. How many hits, how many misses, how many highs, how many lows, how many gains, how many losses! We may have survived some, we may not have some others, yet, on the whole, it is a year lived, doesn’t matter how. And that calls for celebration.
A year is 365 days, and each day has been special in some way whether we like to accept it or not. For every vibrant day, we have also had a bad hair day or a placid one. And we have moved on from one day to another to be here today, and that calls for celebration.
As we turn the calendar for the last time this year, let us take a vow to take each day of the new year for its own uniqueness and make every day lived to its fullest, whatever it may offer us. While we take our highs and gains with us into 2019, let us, as 2018 comes to a close, work towards bringing a closure to our lows and losses of this year, in whatever way we can, be it physically, mentally or emotionally.
On that note, let’s toast 2019 in!
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Dec 29, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/8b58c9d2-ab34-4666-8ff1-ff24ccc43416.aspx
#TheQuintessentialWord #FlautistofBrindaranyam #
Here's my first book! An ensemble of poetry and photographs.
Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
https://youtu.be/5BhbjMaIwpk
You can buy it at this link:
https://notionpress.com/read/the-flautist-of-brindaranyamwww.facebook.com
While I still do think that welcoming a new year need not involve extravaganza, I now differ in my attitude over the celebrations.
A year is 12 months long, there is so much change contained in these 12 months. We are not the same person we were when we entered 2018. We have seen a year’s growth, we have had a year’s experience, and that calls for celebration.
A year is 52 weeks. How many hits, how many misses, how many highs, how many lows, how many gains, how many losses! We may have survived some, we may not have some others, yet, on the whole, it is a year lived, doesn’t matter how. And that calls for celebration.
A year is 365 days, and each day has been special in some way whether we like to accept it or not. For every vibrant day, we have also had a bad hair day or a placid one. And we have moved on from one day to another to be here today, and that calls for celebration.
As we turn the calendar for the last time this year, let us take a vow to take each day of the new year for its own uniqueness and make every day lived to its fullest, whatever it may offer us. While we take our highs and gains with us into 2019, let us, as 2018 comes to a close, work towards bringing a closure to our lows and losses of this year, in whatever way we can, be it physically, mentally or emotionally.
On that note, let’s toast 2019 in!
Vidya Shankar
Published in The Gulf Today / Short Take, dt Dec 29, 2018)
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/8b58c9d2-ab34-4666-8ff1-ff24ccc43416.aspx
#TheQuintessentialWord #FlautistofBrindaranyam #
Here's my first book! An ensemble of poetry and photographs.
Click the link below to watch a 30-second promo video.
https://youtu.be/5BhbjMaIwpk
You can buy it at this link:
https://notionpress.com/read/the-flautist-of-brindaranyamwww.facebook.com
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