As the welcoming screams, whistles, fireworks for a new year (and a new decade, no less) surround our serene apartment in my home from multiple sets of rowdy youngsters, enthusiastic party animals and high spirited spiritualists, I wake myself up from my own metaphorical stupor. I'm awake, but lost in thoughts. I forget where I was or what I was doing at the start of the last decade, but I try to remember the things and people lost and found over the last year. My last month has been at home (though I reside elsewhere), with family, travel, food and shopping taking up all the time. I found myself realizing that I hardly had time to reflect and react to a year gone by, a year that vanished like the mist on a bright winter day, like the smoke from the agarbathis - I felt its fragrance and its smell, but I couldn't hold on to it. And now the year past is nothing more than a polaroid picture in reverse - a fast fading picture of jumbled memories.
I have lamented multiple times, to same and different people, that the times are moving too fast. I am no Einstein, but as things move faster, time should slow down. But these days, life is moving fast, and so does time. May be I have stopped perceiving time, stopped to stoop and smell the flowers, stopped to marvel at the life around, stopped to revel in nothingness, stopped to ... stop. I miss writing, I miss inspirations, I have become a passive observer of things, and letting life flow through me, rather than taking life for a ride. So, I will try make amends. I will try making resolutions, and try keeping them. And you keep me honest.
My Resolutions:
1. Take time to update the blog - atleast once every 2 weeks (may be every pay day).
2. Connect and Reconnect with friends and extended family.
3. Play tennis atleast once a week - anywhere.
4. Go to gym for 30 minutes atleast twice a week.
5. Learn something new every couple of months [even simple things].
6. Start volunteering.
So, here's to stopping to smell the roses, writing a blog on it, telling my cousins about it, and my new tennis / gym partners, may be learn to grow a rose tree and teaching that to school kids.
BIG GOALS.... Baby steps. Wish me luck.
I have lamented multiple times, to same and different people, that the times are moving too fast. I am no Einstein, but as things move faster, time should slow down. But these days, life is moving fast, and so does time. May be I have stopped perceiving time, stopped to stoop and smell the flowers, stopped to marvel at the life around, stopped to revel in nothingness, stopped to ... stop. I miss writing, I miss inspirations, I have become a passive observer of things, and letting life flow through me, rather than taking life for a ride. So, I will try make amends. I will try making resolutions, and try keeping them. And you keep me honest.
My Resolutions:
1. Take time to update the blog - atleast once every 2 weeks (may be every pay day).
2. Connect and Reconnect with friends and extended family.
3. Play tennis atleast once a week - anywhere.
4. Go to gym for 30 minutes atleast twice a week.
5. Learn something new every couple of months [even simple things].
6. Start volunteering.
So, here's to stopping to smell the roses, writing a blog on it, telling my cousins about it, and my new tennis / gym partners, may be learn to grow a rose tree and teaching that to school kids.
BIG GOALS.... Baby steps. Wish me luck.
