...reminiscence!

I have not written a blog post in such a long time and now I wonder what to write… though I wish to come up with a post which is nice and creative but somehow I feel the flow of thoughts have been jammed due to the heap of rubbish dumped over it. New Year is here and it is time to make merry, form new resolutions, meet up, enjoy with loved ones and welcome a new saga of events, accomplishments, happenings and activities.  It is the time when I look back and introspect on what I gained out of the year that passed by, what have I done which was worth the while, what important lessons have i been taught that is to be remembered life long, what places had I not been to earlier that I could see last year… this blog would be an attempt to summarize the year passing by! If it manages to keep you engrossed, I would consider the attempt successful but if mid-way, you plan to read it some other time; I would know I have to work harder on my writing skills.

Last year has been a year of mixed events.... where I witnessed gleeful sound of wedding bells at one time, I also formed part of the mournful funeral of sudden and sad demise of one of my very own.

On professional front, my stars were not shining the brightest. There was a time when I thought that New Year would probably see me ‘unemployed’ (a word dreaded by all the literates around the world) or stepping into a new organization if I be lucky enough. I had to make a tough decision of moving on without having an offer in hand, both under the tangible pressure of work and intangible pressure of insignificance around the work place. But as they say, “Tough times donot last... Tough people do!”, though I wasn’t tough but found myself important enough for the heads to not let go of me. And here I am sitting in the same office writing this post with a sense of enhanced satisfaction and higher importance.

Medically, it was a harsh year. Overwork and stress coupled with bad eating-habits and irregular diet played its role in making me look unhealthy and feel feeble. I was detected of abnormally low blood-pressure and was told to do anything to control it if I were to not be called a chronic patient very early in life. Living alone which was initially by compulsion is now by choice  - I realized it during that time when I was given the option of going home and living comfortably with family but I refused it point-blank in the alacrity of earning my own bread and butter along with leading an independent life. But how long could the body have taken this ruthless negligence? It gave up and I had to go home and spend good about three weeks there under the gentle care of people who matter the most in the world. I gained back the weight and the complexion that had worn out over months in those three weeks itself as all I did there was to eat and sleep.

In terms of fun and frolic, this year surpassed all previous years in both magnitude and frequency. Having back-up of your own salary-account with fun-loving and independent friends around sharing the same taste and sense of joy does a lot in terms of making you enjoy life at your own terms. I got a taste of it when we went for outings to places like Coorg, Goa, Hogenekkal Falls, Tonnur Lake, and for innumerable bowling games, TT games and lunch/dinner, go-carting, paint-ball game and those wonderful parties at all the hip places around the city. I seriously couldn’t have asked for more. Being on Page 3 twice in the same year was what I had never imagined, thought of or even wished for. I couldn’t have done anything more over and above what I already did!

And today, at the onset of the New Year, I look back and cherish all the moments spent with a sense of contentment and joy along with a shadow of guilt of the sins that must have been committed deliberately or innocently.  With a drop of tear rolling down the smiling cheek, I bid adieu to the past and wait for the unseen to come as the golden rays of the sun proudly scale the sky on the very first day of this promising New Year!