2008 goes and a new year '2009' comes. Time for new aspirations, new apprehensions, new beginnings (of course, beginnings have to be new :P). Everybody is enthusiastic to get a new perspective of life and get deeper and more satisfying pleasure from it. No matter how bad or good the passing year has been, one always looks forward for the oncoming year with great vigour and expectation.
And then you party around the whole of 31st night, eating into the morning of 1st as well. You send greeting cards, e-cards, e-mails, sms and other things jamming the servers of the all important electronic communication. Then you go around the next week wishing each and every guy or gal whom you think you might have some remote acquaintance. Do you bother to remember who all wished you or if thats too tedious do you atleast remember whom you have wished. Ok not all, atleast say some 60-70% of them.
So you dont remember most of this wishing business, then why do we do it? Is it a trend? a culture? a nuisance? Junta these day spend a lot of money over this occasion of new year on a variety of things. Spending it on family vacations, clothes, etc are all great but whats the point in partying like as if the world's gonna end tonight, getting so drunk that you cant differentiate between a spoon and a vodka stirrer. Then you are all suffering from a hangover on the first day of this new year where you wanted to turn over a new leaf.
Hey hang on, before you start thinking I m some sort of a sadist and againist new year celebrations; its just that I want each one of you, who celebrate it to reason out why you do it. We wish each other mainly because we hope with all our fingers crossed to have the courage and determination to face the coming year for ourselves. Each person who wishes us increases our confidence in facing the future challenges. We party, spend money like water, pamper ourselves with goodies only to increase the 'feel-good' factor. Man is a very optimistic charcater. He builds around himself trenches of hope, faith and goodwill to batter the tides of failure, bad luck and deriliction.
So at last, I hope my intention has become clear to you. Enjoy the new years as they come by, but also know why one celebrates them. Cherish those special moments, drive away the times that have let you down and face the future with hope and a clear mind. And you will never be looking down again.
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