Always a gd time to wax lyrical; get all introspective; get all riled up; resigned, enthused, despondent or elated.....whatever grabs us usually (or unusually ) at year's end when we tend to reflect that much more. I guess we are all pretty much subject and can easily fall prey to a whole gamut of emotions as we relive the year in a flash and take our lessons from events past that have invariably affected us and shaped us all for better or for worse....Well, I am taking this last opportunity to sound my blessings and do some ramblings before the year is out for good.
And writing for me is cathartic - much like getting a whole weight off your shoulders when you get yourself to really think about issues , distill them and put it down on paper (or in this case, cyberspace)...and ramblings they are, for better or for worse, but they are mine and one can choose to read on or not....
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| Getting the TT helmets weight off my shoulders! |
As far as resolutions go, I found a gem of a write up from Mary Anne Radmacher which I reproduce below :
"LIVE WITH INTENTION. WALK THE EDGE.
LISTEN HARD.
PRACTICE WELLNESS. PLAY WITH ABANDON.
LAUGH.
CHOOSE WITH NO REGRET.
APPRECIATE YOUR FRIENDS.
CONTINUE TO LEARN.
DO WHAT YOU LOVE.
LIVE AS IF THIS IS ALL THERE IS."
I will add on in prose my little bits :
Make each day count. Count Your Blessings.
Bless your friends as they have blessed you.
Feed them.
Believe in Yourself and make things happen.
Do what you Love and Love what you do!
After a year's hiatus, I finally had my usual year end gatherings at my place where I pulled out all stops to cook up a spread for my close friends. A labour intensive undertaking seeing as I eschewed catering preferring instead to prepare and cook with what I felt I had of a culinary talent! The results?
No one had the runs..and the food was all well received! As you can see - I like to feed my friends:) And what a nice bunch of new friends they are! Blessed are we to find comfort, shared goals and gd cheer with others. One only hopes things last as long as they should... but in the meanwhile, there is always MUCH to be thankful for - the things we oftentimes take for granted: food on the table, an appetite to savour the same, friends to share it with, a roof over our heads, and a tomorrow always worth waking up to!
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| 12 dishes for 12 guests :) |
Ok ok..for those who are keeping count, the 12th item is the Sangria... LOL!
And so hopefully begins a time honoured tradition as we commit ourselves to the familial bond of friendship and have sup together at festive and celebratory times like this. A sincere wish to share in the many blessings that I have had this year:
where I verily had been so shaped, influenced, motivated; made painfully aware of my foibles; learning to believe and to get out here and Just Do It; joyous embrace of Life and all its attendant promises of new and wondrous experiences there for the taking; laughter & love, learnt of friends to sustain and fuel for all the undertakings that we set ourselves to do - as we are never alone in our journey!
So altogether a great way to usher out the old year and bring on the New Year. A very Merry Christmas and a Splendid New Year to all!
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| Let's all do something different and make a change for the better. People are mostly afraid of change from routine or getting out from their relative comfort zones...they would rather live life in stasis.....keeping the existing moments as long as they can....yet in a blink of an eye the whole world indubitably shifts beneath our feet - this is the real world in a constant state of flux...n herein lies the paradox - we take a snapshot of the moment to preserve it in a frantic attempt to lay claim to a constant..but then that moment is as fleetingly gone..ultimately there is no real preservation...only a life or moment evolved. So embrace change ! Take that snap shot by all means but do not hanker after what is past....learn to appreciate it by all means and learn from it ..but a progressive life is about being forward looking... |
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