First of all let me wish everyone a very Happy New Year! Its been a long time I have written anything as last two months have been a roller coaster ride with not even sundays observed as holidays. Even its been long I saw my own blog page. Well then again there's hardly anything to see. :-D
And so New Year is knocking or should I say its already entered.
Every New Year begins with a month named after the Roman God Janus, an appropriate personification of the start of the new year. This particular Roman God had two faces (check out the picture) so that he could look ahead towards the future and back at the past at the same time. As we get rid of an old year and look forward to a new one, we all try to be a little like Janus. May be we should all become like Janus (not exactly with two faces)! We know through experience what we did wrong and what we did right and hope to do better this year. So what do we do to make another year better? We make RESOLUTIONS!
Are these resolutions actually resolutions? Most of us who think that they have made a resolution are actually under the impression of making it but actually those are wishes and not resolutions. Resolutions are more of a committment, an effort that an individual makes to achieve wishes. Resolutions undergo immediate effect on New Years Day and remain untill fullfilled or abandoned.
Check out what Mark Twain has to say "Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
Some of us make ambitious new year's resolutions; others just take a deep breath and hope for the best. And while we are making good resolutions as always, we should always remember that one who breaks a resolution is a weakling and one who makes is a fool. :-D So this year lets all be strong and wise!
Hope this year everyone of us become like Janus more particularly looking ahead into the future breaking into a new begining with the first light of the New Year with new hopes, new thoughts and renewed efforts to touch the sky! Together WE CAN!
Wishing that each one has everyday of this new year as the very first day filled with love, peace, good health (ofcourse with a lot of wealth), bright, shiny and promising to make all things new!
Also, while looking back I also wish my country a "Terror Free New Year!" May God Bless Her for all the good she holds within her!
With hopes to touch the sky,
Mervyn
