Happy New Year

It's customary to look forward to the New Year on a day like this, but it may be more appropriate to step back and see what took place the past 12 months. Sometimes we feel an urge to discard and forget, pretending there was this black box that can encapsulate all that we want to leave behind us. I suppose it's only to be expected. We want to forget the bad moments and look forward to the new adventures that lurk just around the corner. However, there seems to be a gap in between the two: the good moments, which as per always we don't treasure enough.

You may start thinking that I have fallen into the cliché holiday trap and that I have already started compiling lists of new year's resolutions! Actually, I have not, although ironically I am thinking of compiling such a list just now. It's just that for me it has been a good year, overall. Actually, the last couple of years have been good, very good indeed. Not everything was perfect, but they were good! Despite the difficulties there were these 'special' moments that made every struggle worthwhile. I guess without them they would not have been special. Now, what I came to realise is that during the past 24 months I more or less got closure in many challenges I had set for myself over a decade or so. It's like 10001 Things to do before the decade is over! It sounds dramatic, probably because it is. Well, for me anyway! It's a great feeling to be happy with your place under the sun, know where you are coming from and have a direction. No I have not figured everything out and neither do I know how things would turn out. I am just happy that I can shout: so far so good!

With a tabula rase as my to do list and a clean email inbox (does not happen often), I am ready for 2011 new adventures!

All the best for the New Year.

Things #13 & #77

Merry Christmas! Ho Ho Ho!

I thought to wish everyone all the best for the festive season and the new year, by posting a video greeting card in which I am whistling. Not a bad idea given that doing so means I've just completed another 2 Things!

Thing #5: Keep a Dream Diary

Well what's the point? After all, I tend to dream what I think. Sometimes I even try to think what I will dream. The past few months though, what I came to realise is that it's the dreams that we come up with when we are awake that truly matter. Those little thoughts that occupy the back of your head and desperately want to come out (do not confuse them with the voices you may hear once in a while, those are a different thing). Given that I have a big head, and consequently ample of space at the back of my head, I can afford to have many such thoughts.

Oh.. and in case you are wondering what my thoughts are... well, actions speak much louder than words. Patience is a virtue.

Thing #52: Learn to swim - update

In my previous post I wrote that swimming from A to B, when needed, is enough. Well, the pool is not enough any more! 3 months into this Thing I have managed to go a long way (actually swim a long way), at least given my initial performance. So... if I am allowed to start making new year's resolutions early this time, then let's start with this: I will go swimming once a week.