Happy New Year 2017

The year 2016 paves way for the next teen year of the Millennium to step in, the year 2017. As the old man 2016 bends his spine, extending his hand and opens the door to welcome New Year, it's time for some introspection. 

 

A la getting rid off old cloths for the new one, the soul moving from one body to another as famously extolled by Lord Krishna in BHAGWAT GITA, 2016 is reborn again at midnight tonight. The new year dawns as the cherubic smile of a newborn as another number is added to the year.

 

But hardly anything ever changes. Life trudges ahead as just the same shit, different day with different color and texture - as more or less the status quo is maintained. We may forget history but we don't forget to repeat it year after year. Similar to this starting stanza of the Kishore's song

 

EK RUT AAE, EK RUN JAAE PHIR,
MOUSAM BADLENA, BADLE NASEEB.

"One season comes and another goes,
Seasons change not the fateful woes". 

 

This year came with a mixed bag of good, bad and ugly, with additional baggage of memories to roll into next year. Made new friends, revived old ones and lost a few, once and for all. Yet the year comes with this stark reminder - life goes downhill from here, tasks become uphill and years are numbered before I go over the hill. 

 

To me, almost all the New Year wishes expressed over the years have been pleasant enough to makes them forgettable. Homo Sapiens inherent nature is to remember the unpleasant ones. I being no exception, remember this one from 1st January,1982. On the first New Year after his marriage to Diana, Prince Charles wished the nosey British Paparazzi, "Have a Nasty New Year".

 

Let me repeat the forgettable wish, as I do not forget to do at the end of every year, HAVE A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR. Stay blessed.