I must say a BIG thank you to all those wonderful readers for their encouraging notes, mails and messages asking me to resume the blog since the day I wrote my last post. It feels awesome to be missed!
We are in 2014 already! I have had a sensational start to the New Year. How about you?
Its first week of the New Year and I am already hearing loud proclamations of the same, old, ridiculous "new year resolutions". There is nothing wrong in setting goals and working on achieving them but why create ruckus? Frankly, I find New Year resolutions farcical for a simple reason that if one wants to change/start/stop something in some area of life, why wait for the New Year to bring that change?
Losing weight, earning more money, being more successful, giving up on smoking/drinking/other vices, work harder, spend less time on facebook, getting over a relationship that has stopped working long back.....are some of the resolutions one hears every year! We all know why most of these resolutions fail to work.
Its interesting how majority of the new year resolutions are about achieving / doing /surviving and rarely about becoming/being. Scratch the surface beneath the resolutions and one finds extreme self esteem issues, anxiety, feelings of inadequacy and even paranoia.
Sometimes I wonder if we are losing the ability to know, tune into our own selves to understand who we are. There is so much more to us/life than achieving, surviving, and acquiring. Not often one is able to separate all that from our own true self and understand who we are at the very core. I know it is not always easy to figure out that real person amidst the crazy rush for survival, the struggle to do zillion things and the competition of acquiring everything that we are expected to stay ahead in mad race of life.
Behind the person struggling with weight issues, failing to accept the fact that he/she needs to move his butt and get out of sedentary lifestyle and embrace healthy choices is someone who has long lost touch with his/her inner self. A person still stuck with a bad relationship despite pain and suffering is someone who needs to have a serious look at his /her self esteem issues.
We don't need New Year resolutions to bring change in our life. We need to take a pause and reflect to reconnect with our own selves. Maybe we need to steal a moment or two even from the craziest day to ponder, perhaps doing absolutely nothing, to marvel at little joys of life, to find beauty and shift our focus on understanding our true Being for a change.
Here is wishing all my wonderful readers a few moments of absolute nothingness every single day! God bless!
