OK A NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!............and resolutions!

Yikess, its been more than a month since I blogged so here goes.................
What better topic than when a New Year presents itself (come to think of it, I am wondering how many blogs has been written about the same topic, but not that, that is going to stop me, will it??).. so here goes.. (did I say this before????)

So there we have, another year blown past, another year, that simply was in too much hurry to go somewhere (or catch a train)!! Well that the general consensus anyway! While for most people that is the case, I somehow beg to differ. They say (who are 'They'??) that when everything is going fine, things tends to speed up and when nothing is going right, the time just grinds to a halt! Its like the second needle never moves?? Is this even possible?? You know as well as I do its all perspective isnt it?? But that said, I do have to say I felt that the year for me moved slowly (ya ya I know after all that talk about perspective, I dont have the right to say it, but heck I am human too :P). I have had friends who atrribute this to me getting old (smug look on the face- people who said this would know). Well thats their perspective (Here now I begin my customary habit of digressing- I have used the word perspective soo much already here, that maybe I need to change title to "New Year and Perspective", but I won't). Why exactly did I feel this way?? well for one, I was waiting for the last quarter of the year to go to India and ppl who are abroad can understand how much the yearning to go to home country one always feels, dont they?? Its like the mother ship is calling us home (wondering, since our home land is often referred to as motherland, is that why the parent ship got the female gender?? Oh, well the inanimate objects and their genders).
Now why exactly did I have to wait till last quarter?? Duh!! Well for all those who know me, they know my reasons, and for all those who dont, I dont think they would be interested in my reasons, so I will leave it at that.

At this point you are probably wondering that this guy was to talk about resolutions and there is nothing about it till now (well I will get to it, also this way I can drag the blog to sizeable proportions :D-- there a long word starting with 'p' and not the word perspective... Oh Darn it!!)
So yes, coming to resolutions?? Whats with all this New Year resolutions anyway?? Who started this trend or custom or whatever you wish to call it (I certainly would like to pound that person). Why is the need to identify to do or to resolve to do something from a New year day only?? What ever happened to the sound byte of 'Right Here Right Now'?? Sant (translated-saint) Kabir famous for his Dohaes (two line verses) once said 'Kal Kare so Aaj Kar, Aaj Kare So Ab! (Do today what you put off to do tomorrow, and do it now what you are going to do today) Simply put, the same Right Here Right now!! (Now maybe some1 who understood this Great Man's Dohaes and translated in a catchy manner for the English audience, I am pretty sure no one knows who came up with this 'right here right now' catchphrase do they??)
So why the resolution to wait for New Year anyway?? Is it like an added incentive to goof off till then?? If so are resolutions generally met when taken on New Year's?? Statistically (now dont ask me which statistics and from where) more than 70% of New Year resolution are never made good, so if at all you are going to break it, why wait?? Additionally if you are going to be successful, then why wait too??
Never really makes sense to me and I am beginning to feel that I am beating around the bush. Anyway, I did not have a New Year resolution, but did have a resolution, and it was met on New Year (now isnt that nice to have a resolution and meet it on New Year's, that way we can remember when we acheived it). It was more fun that way!! and the New Year was off to a great start and good feeling!
Signing off all smiles and grins!!