New Year Resolutions

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL

Well a new year has begun and after the celebrations and everything, the next thing is to take new year resolutions. Now why take a resolution to improve self on a particular day is beyond me. If one wants to improve upon self, isnt any day a good day to start? Who am i to argue with the ways of the world.

So keeping up with the tradition, past couple of years i did take some resolutions. I have been met with more disappointment and frustration than anything else. Obviously, I havent been able to keep my resolutions and this led to frustration as to the levels of will power I have apart from the disappointment of not meeting the goal.

Then dawned a realisation. Why try improve self? Instead why not be happy with who you are? Why cant my resolution be that I am content with life, everything is perfect? People might argue that that way one is not striving to better self and will be leading a sedentary lifestyle. Well I object. For one all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And secondly, what was Newton up to when the apple fell on his head? He was relaxing under an apple tree and being happy with life. What about when Archimedes ran around shouting Eureka? He was having a leisurely bath. So relaxation is important for great ideas to crop up.

So to this effect, I prepared a list. Actually multiple lists. First one contains all the good things in life, things I need to be happy about. So whenever I feel down or depressed I will go through this list. Next list is a bit difficult. I prepare lists for all the people in my life who irritate me at times, and then for each of the person I write down the good things they do. This way next time I get angry at them, I need to go through this list.

My new philosophy of life - it consists of glasses and jug. When we are born each of us has a set of glasses and a jug full of water. Glasses represent various aspects of our lives, like health, family, wealth etc. etc. Water denotes the levels of success in life. Water is poured into the glasses. The level of water in each glass denotes how much of each attribute you are given, ie amounts of health, wealth etc etc. The total amount of water is same for all, just the distribution differs. Some get more in one glass as compared to others, some glasses are empty so on and so forth. So if you compare yourself with others you will see that they might be having what you lack, but definitely you too have something that they lack. So concentrate on what you have rather than on what you lack. That makes all the difference.

Happy New Year again.......