For many, each New Year is a time for resolutions. I have often made such resolutions - and usually broken them (just like most others)...
This year, I'm doing something different. I'm just going to reflect on some of the thoughts and 'bulbs' that flashed somewhere in my grandest personal 'home theater', one that needs no electricity but displays the highest-definition results (you guessed it right, I'm talking about the mind). Some of you would've already seen these as Facebook posts, but hey, in a world of retweets, ain't I entitled to some rethweets :)
Without much voodoo, here you go:
* Your own heart and mind is the best place to escape the wretchedness of the world.
* Love and hate have remained constant since the time of Adam & Eve - 50:50.
* If we truly try to be sincere to ourselves, there'll be no need to feign sincerity toward others.
* There's so much heartburn in the world, it's causing global warming.
* Wanderlust often leads to wander*lost* but that doesn't mean we should stop exploring - only that we should be aware of where we are going.
* The world is full of a**holes - but that's no reason why you should be one...
* As long as children have the ability to love unconditionally - no matter how much the grown-ups tamper with that - there's hope for all of us.
* The future shocks us, because we spend too much time reconciling our present to our past.
* An evolved person is not necessarily one with a refined palate, but essentially one with an exalted mind.
* Regrets are nothing but detritus of past actions that keep floating in our mind until we forgive ourselves.
* A heavy heart is worse than a heavy mind.
* A lot of politicians call themselves public servants. They are right - with a stinging twist: Public Serpents.
* The distance between despair and hope can be a leap of faith or a chasm of doubt.
* The mind is the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And the rainbow itself is the bridge - invisible but perceptible - from the heart to the mind.
* The way a child touches you - physically, emotionally and spiritually - nothing else possibly can. . . Is there anyone who still thinks angels don't exist?
* Music is the vacuum cleaner that smoothes out the cobwebs of tangled thoughts from the remotest corners of our mind.
* What we do not do often reveals more about us than what we end up doing.
* Do not give me wisdom at the cost of kindness.
* In many places in India paperless office is dead; paper mess office, however, is still alive - and kicking you where it hurts most!
* Don't mortgage your present to your past - the future has no interest in it.
* The burden of the lies we speak is nothing compared to the burden of the ones we live...
* The day I stop doing any of these three L's - Learning, Laughing and Loving - will be the day I stop Living. . .
* There are only two things that really matter in life - unfortunately, nobody knows what they are!
* How to get more time, you ask?? Stop killing it!
* No matter where we are, most of us tend to think we should be somewhere else!
* Diwali is not so much about setting fire to crackers as it is about lighting up your inner selves with the spirit of celebration - of joy over sadness, of good over evil, of friendship over enmity, of love over hatred...
* Dieting tip: don't lose steam; lose cream!
* It takes a little time to realize that mathematics is the science closest to God. Thankfully, you don't have to be an Einstein to say this.
* No matter how much we know, there'll always be more to know than we do.
* Theory of relativity: what's "austere" for a few is simplicity for some, necessity for many and, unfortunately, luxury for many many more...
* What Obama probably said (or should've said) to General Motors: "I know what you did last Hummer!"
* The world is a stage and we are all puppets - but some of us do try to pull our own strings...
Let's continue to hope that the drama played out in the global theater becomes more interesting than ever in what can be construed as the year of Vision Perfect: 20-10
Happy New Year...
