Happy New Year!

Hi Friends...............been ages since I blogged.....Gosh! this is becoming one of my standard lines!!!!!

So, before I forget, Compliments of the Season to all my dear friends..........Wish all of you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!! Hmmmmmmmm............New year, new ideas, new thoughts and new blogs!!!!! There's so much more to look forward to, isn't it????

Come to think of it, New Year is the one and only occasion that is celebrated worldwide unanimously (never mind the statewise new years that we have in India during various harvest seasons!!!). But seriously, its a day binding on all the people of the world, when all the world parties and joins hands to bid farewell to the passing year and welcome the coming one with open arms! ( Now please don't ask me how people can join hands and open arms all at once!!!!!!!!)

Why is the New Year so significant??? For most people its not just the beginning of a new calendar year but a day to make various other new beginnings. People always keep cribbing about all the things they would like to change about themselves, all the things that they want to achieve and this is just an excuse, an opportunity, a reason to go all out and do just that. Its also a reminder that one more year has passed. As I was talking to my uncle the other day, he told me this and it just stuck.........that the New year is like a railway station. When I gave it some thought, I realized how much meaning the comparison had. Yes, New Year is like a railway station, where the train of our life halts for a moment and we get to assess whether we are heading in the right direction, how much longer we have to go, whether we are supplied with sufficient fuel and whether we are proceeding as per target!

The birth of a New Year is the rising of a new dawn when we put the past behind us and look eagerly and enthusiastically at the glorious tomorrow that's waiting for us - just around the bend! Practically speaking, all that we talk of as characteristics of the New year - all this fuss about making a new start, looking ahead and all that - could be any other day of the year but then, the unanimity of celebration, the spirit of the occasion would be lost. For many people, the new beginning that they make on New Year's is because they know everyone does so. The making of resolutions, the starting of new habits, the giving up of old ones.....all of these on New year's is simply because, as I said earlier, this day is an excuse to do so! Also, people, in their everyday hurry, do not realize the value of time that's slipping from between their fingers every moment....but when it collects and becomes a year lost, they are jolted to reality and realization dawns that another year has past...........The New year is an AWAKENING of sorts!

New Year would never be the same if people all did whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted - in that case, new year would only be the purchase of a new calendar! The whole spirit of New Year is making new beginnings, setting new targets and getting to work towards them - not just partying hard and then, again, waiting for 31st December!!!!!!!!

So, Happy New Year people! Hope this year sees all your most treasured dreams come true (actually, hope you make them come true coz then, the joy is always double of what it would be if it happened automatically!!!). Hope this year keeps you healthy, wealthy and prosperous in all respects and brings you loads of happiness and success...........................

Till next time, this is Slo signing off! Tally ho!!!!!!!