Usually on the new year's eve we are all so excited, isn't it? This is because we want to start afresh with new hopes and aspirations or it can also be that we are bored with writing the same year in the date repeatedly or may be, we are fed up with seeing the face of the same calendar for twelve months and for various other reasons. However, unless we become a different person or incorporate something new into our lives, the new year wouldn't be indifferent from the old one. That's the reason most of us make a list of resolutions to be implemented in the new year. With this thought I sat down to write my new year resolutions for the first time. It was then I realized that, without contemplating the past, it is unwise to think about making changes in future. With this, the list of my new resolutions has transformed into the list of the lessons that I learnt.
In the rest of the post I would like to talk about what my experiences have taught me so far. Though many of these aren't new ones, 2018 has come up with a different set of experiences altogether.The list goes as follows:
1. "Time is ticking", the best lesson that any calendar teach.
2. Kick-start the new year with maximum productivity or work maximum on the new year day. I know this sounds odd in a celebration mood but it is very true that how you start your year determines how the rest of the year would be. This is not a belief or faith but my experience tells.
3. Everything happens for a good reason.
4. Its important to have an organised life with proper goals and planning.
5. However its important that our goals and planning should be proportional to our time and capacity.
6. Health is everything.
7. Don't give explanations and ask people to understand you. Instead understand them.
8. Patience pays. The fruits of patience are the sweetest.
9. What people talk on your face may not necessarily be what they talk about us in our absence. That doesn't mean we have to change our behavior towards them.
10. Time time time......managing time is essential.
11. Life is bigger than all the problems. Problems come and go while life doesn't come again once it's gone. Don't ever think of ending life because of the problems. Your life may not be precious to you, but it is so valuable to your family.
12. We cannot predict what happens the next moment.
13. There is a great feeling in cooking and serving. How great does it sound when somebody eagerly waits to eat the food cooked by us.
14. Whatever we do to make others happy is always divine.
15. When I am trying to make my home, I realized how much effort women put to make their homes such heavenly places. Their services are endless. If they fail to do so, then homes become hell.
16. If you strongly feel to do something, then do it immediately. Do it at the right time. Otherwise you may not get a chance to do it .
17. People measure your worth only in terms of money. That has become the nature of this society.
18. If your intentions are good and honest, then you can do whatever you feel as right , even if a hundred people are against it.
19. The best hack for happiness is,"ignore what doesn't please you and embrace only what makes you happy. After all, happiness is your choice not the world's gift to you.
20. Replace your tantrums and arguments with "silence". 99% of the people don't like to listen or understand but just talk. It's not wise to waste our energy there.
21. If you want to learn something, first accept that you don't know anything. Only then you can be more open to what you perceive.
22. When we think that we know everything our tolerance towards others decrease. Only when we come to terms with our ignorance, we can see others' greatness.
23. Eat healthy and eat mindfully.
24. Pay attention to your "self", than the phone.
25. Fine arts evolve a person.
26. If we don't practice what we learn, then we lose what we learn.
27. It's essential to sit in an open space at least for a while in a day and stare at the nature. Apart from being healthy we also evolve and grow beyond this physical.
28. It's very essential to know what's happening in our society and across the globe.
29. Try to spend most of the time with your loved ones. There is no guarantee for anyone or anything.
30. Always try to be in touch with your well-wishers, friends and those who love you. Also express your concern and affection for them. This is really important.
31. If you are stressed, go and talk to small children or anyone younger than you. The small can teach us well about how to take things easily in life and how to be joyful.
32. If possible play something daily. There is no age restriction for playing. Playing breaks the barriers, makes us broad-minded and kills our ego.
33. We may be walking properly in our way but because of others' mistake we may get hurt. Keeping this in mind, go carefully on the road so that you don't hurt anyone.
34. If you have people who love you, care for you and put you in their prayers, then you are the most successful human being.
34. Tomorrow if you are able to wake up and find all your loved ones beside you, then you are the luckiest person on this earth.
Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous new year, I sign off this post and the year 2018.
© Written by Manaswini Pasumarthi
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