10 years in one’s life is quite a significant amount of time. Its a decade.Just days left for 2011 to begin and I cannot help but look back at the last ten years of my own life.
I feel that where I stand today is a result of what I did with my life for the last ten years. This may not apply to many of you especially if you are in the tenth standard for example …because in that case if you are still in school and are pursuing an education ,so,you haven’t wronged yourself in any way yet!
Remember those fairy tales in which a poor man would often meet a priest on his way to a far flung land to carry out an impossible sort of task. That priest would often give that poor wanderer his charm and ask him never to stop, turn and look back or else he would become of stone! Strangely I feel like that wanderer at year end this time around.
The feeling of seesawing between if I should look ahead or look back at what happened is quite overwhelming. If one decides to review what happened, in that case it’s a challenge to look at both your success and failure. Of course we feel bad about things that we wanted to do but could not do. But there is a tendency to look mostly at our failures and over look our achievements.
There is another side to it too. Closing our eyes to our mistakes and smiling just at successes can be somewhat misleading . Perhaps the key is to clap at what we achieved and try and acknowledge where we lag.
Remember it takes a lot of courage to talk about our bad feelings. There was once a behavioral expert who said he would give money to anyone who would give a different reply than “Fantastic “to his question “How are you”?
I feel that where I stand today is a result of what I did with my life for the last ten years. This may not apply to many of you especially if you are in the tenth standard for example …because in that case if you are still in school and are pursuing an education ,so,you haven’t wronged yourself in any way yet!
Remember those fairy tales in which a poor man would often meet a priest on his way to a far flung land to carry out an impossible sort of task. That priest would often give that poor wanderer his charm and ask him never to stop, turn and look back or else he would become of stone! Strangely I feel like that wanderer at year end this time around.
The feeling of seesawing between if I should look ahead or look back at what happened is quite overwhelming. If one decides to review what happened, in that case it’s a challenge to look at both your success and failure. Of course we feel bad about things that we wanted to do but could not do. But there is a tendency to look mostly at our failures and over look our achievements.
There is another side to it too. Closing our eyes to our mistakes and smiling just at successes can be somewhat misleading . Perhaps the key is to clap at what we achieved and try and acknowledge where we lag.
Remember it takes a lot of courage to talk about our bad feelings. There was once a behavioral expert who said he would give money to anyone who would give a different reply than “Fantastic “to his question “How are you”?
No two words about the fact that these last ten years have been the formative years of my life. I kind of grew up in these ten years and that too in a world shaping up post 9/11 .But did I become a better human being? Err....don't have a clue.
Something I like about these last few days of December is the contagious hope that these days bring. This year they promise a little rain as well...
I wish you a Happy New Year i.e. 2011 and May all your dreams come true! 
Zzzzzz......
