Twenty Ten « Gautham's Blog: The Smaller Bang

A new set of resolutions people seldom keep. A new beginning which ends gracelessly fading into obscurity. A so-called new life which makes you go DeJaVu never really doing anything new. I bet this is how most of you would have started off your new year today.

But PLEASE, can we make this year different ? I mean, for a change, why can’t we atleast be more realistic ? This year is hardly any different from the one gone by. The global economy is still recovering from its near meltdown the year before last. Some old giants have had huge falls and some old dwarfs are seeing raise in a short span of time. Many things which we took for granted are no more.

So many things have been lost: companies during the recession like Lehman Brothers & Sentinel, people who include legends like Michael Jackson & Les Paul as well as the numerous victims of the latest epidemic, Swine Flu, and other not-so-easy-to-mention things, like the hair on the head of the guy whom I talk to often.

So many things have been gained too: the world is wiser thanks to the recession. Science has been progressing faster than ever and newer technologies keep rising trying to solve the problems we have. The economy had a meltdown but it also had a new energy inforced into it to make it more robust than before, so that when it recovers finally, it will have a harder time failing like it did before. On a personal note, I turned legal last year. Yeah I’m an adult now by definition.

But it never really STOPPED at 2009. NO SIR, it continues into 2010 and the change in year is of no significance to the entity which we call time. And in spite of all this it’s still a “new” year. A time when the calendar asks you to make a fresh start just to make the date seem special.

But regardless of what has been happening in the past, lets march into this year’s end with a new outlook. Let the ghosts of the years gone by guide us to make this one of our best so far. Our good times shall inspire us to work for more while our bad times shall make us sadder but wiser, steering us away from paths which lead to ill. Lets welcome 2010 with a warm applause: It’s not always that you get an excuse to make a change as big and yet so simple. Lets finally think for a change. Before any action, let us not be guided by animal-like instincts and hunger for power and short-term gains but by long-term planning, an all-inclusive outlook, humanitarian values and a smart mind.