The change I want to be.

It is that time of the year again! Time to make resolutions!
Another year has begun.

This year I am not keeping any resolutions. Not because I don't complete them (which most often I don't!), but because I promise to make every day a new day, because I promise to live in the present, because I will treat one day at a time, because I will be the change I want to see in others.

On the morning of the first day of the year, on the way to office all I could crib about was the fact that I had to work today also. When I finally emerged out of my self-obsession, I noticed a poor lady sitting in the same bus, with her three children. On the cold wintry morning, they barely had enough clothes to cover themselves. Their feet were bare. They looked fatigued. Yet they were smiling and talking to one another. I looked around me. There were others who would have to work much more than me. Not just today, everyday. The bus drivers, conductors, police personnel, domestic helps, the shopkeepers, their staff. And a lot of other people. I realized I am not the only person who works. There are several others in situations worse than me. I have several choices when it comes to my life. Several of them don't.

I felt, if nothing else, blessed.

And I decided that I will no longer complain. And this isn't a resolution. I don't want to forget this halfway into January 2013.

This is the change I want to be.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! :)

Every New Year Eve I take resolutions and then by the next week it is long lost and forgotten!

Often we come across quotes and wonder how true they are. We think about them for a minute, share it with someone close, maybe they linger on with us a day or two and then with the lapse of time they fade away.

Words which touched me in the journey of life in 2011...

• Change is static.
• God helps them, those who help themselves.
• You've built your castles in the air, its time to lay the foundation beneath!
• When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
• Life is mostly froth and bubble,
  Two things stand like stone,
  Kindness in another's trouble,
  Courage in your own.
• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. 
• What we are is God's gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.
•  Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
•  Live life to the fullest, you get it just once! :)

 This year, more than resolving to do a particular thing, I wish I could remember to live life along these lines....:) 

Happy New Year to all! :)

May the world not end on 20.12.2012!