The year 2008 began with a spate of traveling which saw me sleeping for two consecutive nights in a bus. It was a painful ride especially for my posterior. It still hurts and today,even, the sight of a bus petrifies me. I have taken a vow that I will never board a bus at least for the next one week. This is the first time that I am driven by an experience to make a New Year resolution. I am filled with enough wisdom that I have decided to make short term resolution this year just to satisfy the whim of making a New Year resolution.
When I asked my students about their New Year resolutions I received many full of zest and energy:
I want to fall in love this year
I am going to visit my friend with whom I had a bitter fight in the past
I am going to learn how to cook
I plan to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca
I want to open a ban account and will deposit my first salary in it
I will go abroad to do higher studies
I felt really inspired by all these words which hopefully will be transformed into solid action. I sometimes feel that people make these b*&^@y resolutions just for the heck of it. Anyway there are some people who stick to their words and my heart goes out to them.
My contention regarding is that I do not want any change to happen to me or my little life. I will be really happy if things go like this for the rest of my life. Changes will happen as they should happen. I believe in the power of destiny which can affect a permanent change in our lives. All others wo/man made changes are temporary. I have gone through the thick but passable walls of experience and I have re-emerged on the other side with a changed outlook and these cross-overs in life are full with meaning and purpose. So I wish, that all my students experience this change and become wise, wiser and the wisest.
