If there is anything that I feel at the dawn of a new year, it is gratefulness. Not everybody has made it. We are a privileged lot to have stepped into a new year, and to be given the choice to start anew, again.
A new year always rings in with opportunities and possibilities. There is always hope somewhere at the back of our minds. That hope to begin again where we have failed before. To pick ourselves up from the things that have perhaps let us down before. To set newer goals, or maybe strive to keep pursuing the finer things we have already acquired. A new year means a lot of things. It’s not only the festivity of it all, but along with it comes a lot of soul searching- something that each of us need to do every once in a while.
At this time of the year, we look back and think of the days gone by. Of how time has quickly flown, and in the blink of an eye, another year is over. We think of how we have lived our precious days in the past year. Have we accomplished our goals? Have we been happy? Have we been content? Have we been the persons we wanted to be? Have we pursued our goals? Have we lived our dreams? Have we found pleasure in the simple things of life? Have we made each day count?
Questions come flooding your mind at the brink of a new year and at the dawn of a new one, all of us hope to become better persons. It reflects our desire for change and what better time than now- a New Year- to start that process of change, that must really begin with you and me. If you had been disappointed with your performance at school, work, or business in the past year, here is another chance to do better and make it right.
As a matter of fact, we get a new chance everyday. To do it right, to live it better. But a new year is always filled with more promises. It’s like a new book, and that book is solely yours. It depends on you, on how you choose to write it and whatever you decide to do with the pages, will eventually show when you stand at the brink of a year’s end and somehow you are driven to think of a fast fading year.
The beginning of a new year gives a golden opportunity to change our ways or mend some of them. Consciously or unconsciously, we set goals for ourselves at the start of a new year. As we begin a new chapter, may the goals we set for ourselves this year not only be confined to ourselves but that, in trying to reach them, we may also carry with us the joy of living and the spirit of forgiveness, without which, the value of life is incomplete.
May we become perfect ambassadors of love, peace and joy and willingly extend these gifts to someone who may need it! To exemplify the life we wish to see around us and be the leader of our times, a trendsetter of good deeds and of rich values. Not to be ashamed of taking the road less travelled, to pursue what is right and to guard it with your life.
May we be the living hope for our children and the kind of people whom they can really look up to. And more than we write our own chapters, may our names find spaces in the books of those we touch as we live from day to day. May we also never fail in our human duties to shower kindness along the way as we set out to fulfill our dreams, our aspirations, our plans, our visions and all that we've hoped for this year to bring.
Vishü Rita Krocha
