Why is it that we hastily bid adieu to difficulty and suffering, while embracing their opposites with enthusiasm? Why should the stock markets head only one way...upwards? And our wealth only increase? Our health improve? Our happiness never end? Why is peace better than war? And pleasure better than pain? Why should only good things to happen to us? WHY IS BETTER BETTER THAN WORSE?
As I awoke this morning to the customary greetings from family and friends with wishes for a joyous and prosperous year ahead, these thoughts emanated from my being and poured into this post... Cynical? Weird? Not really. Are not pleasure and pain two sides of the same coin? Isn't it true that that strife and violence are as old as mountains and oceans? As are peace, good will and generosity. Where there is good there is its opposite. Sadness where there is happiness. Poverty and wealth. Ugliness and beauty. War and peace. Terrorism and sainthood. Birth and...death!
But it is not my lot to ponder over these weighty issues and look for answers that may raise even more questions, is it? Or begin a year with morbid thoughts. No. This is time for hope, for optimism, for energy, exuberance, action. And how could I forget...for new year resolutions! So what are mine for 2009? For a person who has never been motivated by milestones and numbers, January 1 is just another date. But before I go too far down this path, let me change tracks. I will still not have any resolutions. Rather, I shall renew some promises that I have made to myself in the past.
...a promise to strive
...a promise to excel
...a promise to lead and to be led
...to inspire and to be inspired
...a promise to be of value to a greater portion of humanity than I have ever been
If you wish me anything this year, wish that I can live my promises and walk the talk. And you, reader of this blog of randomness - I wish you the same! For that is the path of evolution. And the only truth I can claim to vaguely understand....
2 comments:
It is life sir, the positive and negative. It all cancels out in the end. We feel what we are taught to. We were taught that pain is bad, that joy is good. That we have to bury some of our feelings. But it all boils down to numero uno. I don't know if I am right, but then there is nothing right or wrong in this post. Everything is neutral!!!
Happy/Sad(take it anyway,it's all in good humour) New year!!!
Puneet,
Thank you so much for your comments. It is interesting to read them. We have not met, but I have a mental picture of a thoughtful teenager who is embarking on life's journey and has much to experience and achieve...
I wish you a wonderful 2009!
Rahul
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