HAPPY NEW YEAR- 2015
Y IS FOR NEW YEAR GIFTS
Finally, it’s
time to bid adieu to 2014 and extend our warmest wishes, and open armed welcome
to 2015. Hope that the New Year would be harbinger of peace, joy and prosperity
for all of us as global citizens. It’s also the right time, I suppose, to reflect
and rethink about life in the year gone by, and learn lessons for future, to
make life more fulfilling, creative and meaningful.
All along, I’d been spending a lot of energy,
time and care in managing all types of presents for others, in my family and
social set up. This time, interestingly,
I’m preparing to give myself some gifts and make a new beginning in a mindful
way. I plan to give single-minded attention to promises, which I make to
myself. It means convincing myself, that, come what may, I ought to follow, what
I decide, with zeal and devotion. That is tough, indeed and requires time
management and steely determination.
At this point, foggy ideas and doubts intrude
the mind scape. Rueful questions such as: when would, we women, start giving
precedence to what we need to do for ourselves over unending chores? Or, are
we just like our mothers, who, kind souls kept toiling, without even a nod of
appreciation from children or spouse. Just because, their self-sacrificing
nature, took upon themselves the backbreaking duties, as if ordained from
above. And we took them for granted.
These introspective incursions are a part of
my conversation with my inner self these days. In the New Year, I want to project
a new me with lots of confidence and self-esteem. I’m rubbing it on my
subconscious lest I should forget the promises and be mired in the
self-defeating rut again. Of my own making of course!
Enough of
the prologue friends, and let me talk about those newly structured gifts for self-improvement:
1. A regular
exercise regimen: I need it more than ever now, if I wish to be self-reliant and
remain active in body and mind in the coming years. Exercise is more than a tonic. It energizes you, helps your cardiovascular
system to work more efficiently, makes you more productive and boosts your
spirits.
2. To be
self-compassionate: Alternatively, to be less harsh on myself. We indulge in self-criticizing
on many counts like when we fall short of our own expectations. We should learn
to let go some times. Over exerting and getting stressed, over non-issues need to
be given a go by. It entails learning the art of abandonment to ease the daily bumps
of life.
3.To smile
at my reflection in the mirror: That ironically will give me some me time to
laugh at myself and some ‘do me good’ resolves. Like, time to take more care of myself to go on living a fruitful life, till Almighty's summons!
4. To be
more social: I can’t help not to be choosy about my social contacts, because of the
activities and interests I pursue. I’m sort of, one of a kind and hardly anybody to share what i do. However, to be acquainted with people in one’s community is also
part of a healthy camaraderie.
5. To be more generous and kinder to others:
It requires many self-reminders at the subconscious level to practice this in a
system, where indifference and lies have become the rule rather than the exception. Sadly, you
remain at the receiving end of people, you get services from even after paying
them handsomely.
6. Try to forgive
those who in spite of doing hurtful wrongs, are too vain, small minded and mean to apologize.
7. Last but not the least, to spread love and goodwill
and continue to pursue my passions for friendly sharing with my cyber buddies and for
sheer creative pleasure!
