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Resolutions...

Hello! First things first. My hearty new year wishes to everyone reading this post.
Last year was one of the most industrious,exciting and joyous years of my twenty odd years here on earth. If there is one year which will win an Oscar just like that, then it will be 2010. 2010 will naturally win for the shear amount of drama in it. So here I am, cherishing those moments that made my life eventful.
The earliest image of new year's day that I can remember is that of 1994.I remember sitting on a tank and watching my aunt draw a kolam on the floor. I even remember making a small attempt myself but to this day, I don't know how the women here do it. I must conclude now that it is genetically programmed into a woman...err....much like how boys are so skilled with mundane tasks that requires reasonable balancing abilities and works that require dexterity or out right lateral thinking for that matter. (Whoa!! Can't stop supporting men ;-) It's also one of the traits that are programmed into us.).So, as I was saying, I remember many such new year's eve celebrations in my life.
One other notable occasion that I can recall is an image of the night sky,coconut tree, intermittent flashes from the fire-cracker that was lit a few yards away from me. And that was in the year 2000...and that's my view when I stood like Leonardo Di Caprio from the movie Titanic and gazed at the new skies waiting for us humans to explore as I was an astronomy freak back then ( I even had my own secret laboratory set up in my backyard following Dexter-boy genius ha ha ha.).But over the decade, I've started realizing that real and serious exploration is needed elsewhere. We have to start digging into the fathoms of our psyche. From that day till now, I've gone through a lot...good and bad...won many times...lost even more times. But today, I am what I am and I owe it all to the last decade.
I have a faint recollection of watching a program on the discovery channel that talked about how students learning Karate get stronger knuckles. It was about how by repeated hammering of the bones of the hand, the bones shatter in micro proportions and then reconstitutes itself only to become stronger every time. May be the same applies to our psychological development too! May be , by getting hurt a lot, we are actually getting our minds ready for a sweeter,more fulfilling life.
The strange thing is, of all the victories that has taken place in this decade,this year's is the best. Of all the times that I've fallen down,hurt my heart real badly, this year wins. It's quite contrasting but as I was saying, it has only made me stronger.
It's new year season, I find many changes in the air. For one, there's a lot of garbage entering my home in the forms of calendars,personal diary,pamphlets,etc.One other change is the increasing interests amongst teenagers and college goers to 'see' into the future. Horoscopes,Tarots, Sun sign, star sign and every other sign gets into full swing right from the beginning of December onwards. Of course,everyone's got that desire in them, there's no doubt about it, even then, at times it looks like people are lazy to work in order to create the platform that they want to create. Or may be I'm wrong. I could be wrong, because a little help or a push can't hurt anyway. We are social beings, and if someone walks up in front of your face and tells you that your year is going to be great then sure,you'll be happy. One of my closest pals she called me up and told me this year my creativity will get it's true place in the media. Well, I'm happy, but I'm not sure from where she got such a tailor-made material on the internet.But sure, I was happy and that too I was actually trying to make that the opening line of my plans for this year.
The age of greeting cards has disappeared. Nowadays, I would prefer getting a card if it is for my girlfriend or some hilly billy who hasn't heard the word internet in his life. All other are greeted today electronically. Animated cartoons appear at the click of  a button and also get deleted at the same speed. So what about the avalanche of memories that get triggered at the sight of a birthday card that your loved one sent you a while back?! Now what are we gonna do in this electronic age? Facilities come to life with some serious trade offs.
One other way by which I wish people on festival seasons is short message setting a.k.a. SMS. So Two days back I sit with the cell phone and started sending a total of 300 odd messages to majority of the contacts in my mobile phone. Every time someone gets a message from me and they reply back in simple ways like "Happy new Year buddy" or well crafted ASCII pictures and art. One particular person taught me a nice lesson in an indirect way. His reply : "Convey my wishes to your family, happy new year". That's when it hit me that I should not only wish the person on the other end, but a wish can be spread over un charted territory
too. So people please take part in wishing people on auspicious days and also their families without fail.
New year also brings time for resolutions. I find the idea very funny,because it is my firm belief that feelings don't change over night. There will surely revert back to normalcy,so that you need not act properly.So I have,for the first time, come up with some realistic 'plans' rather than dreams.It is a multi-faceted plan actually.One that ranges from getting back to shape to as big as getting into a company. Hope I live with the same positive spirit throughout the year.I googled this out of curiosity and found the following simple pages on resolutions in case any of you or your friends are having a trouble getting their resolution.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neal-barnard-md/avoid-these-five-new-year_b_802598.html
This can help you choose :- http://www.123newyear.com/resolutions.html
Look!!! There's even a Wikipedia page about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_resolution
Who would've thought!!
I also googled '2011' and found out that it has been designated as the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry and that on my birthday this year, a lunar eclipse is scheduled to occur.
Other major plans for this year are to spend less, engage myself in good music, not to eat too much...in short, get back to being myself .Yeah right..at least let's see if I'm changing into a new leaf this year.

Only 365 days remain. I'm optimistic that it will not be the end...but there's a narrow gap through which I've to go in order to make my life wonderful. Let us see. Let us see.If anyway I am going to be different every year, and then there is little change, then even try not losing control. Because a resolution is a resolution.
And the sands of time keep falling...waiting for none.