NEW YEAR MUSING

How time flies! The year 2009 is gone. One feels it was just yesterday that we welcomed it, soon to be gone. Twelve months went by like twelve minutes. Time moves so fast, really.

By the end of every year, one just wants it to go by. Seldom will you find anyone who doesn’t want to bid adieu to the year going by. And with lots of expectations, he looks forward to the New Year. He indeed celebrates its arrival, of course, with fond hopes. It is another matter that the year that he bid adieu was the year that he welcomed sometimes back with plenty of fanfare. Truly, herein lies the contrast of life.

World over the Year 2009 was a difficult one. The global meltdown showed its highest intensity in the year. To add to that, there were sufficient violence, terrorism, accidents & deaths. The world didn’t soften a wee bit last year. It was trying times indeed for majority of its inhabitants!

Into the fag end of the Year 2009 was the Copenhagen summit. It was one event leaders of every country were involved, one way or the other. The Western front, spearheaded by the host country of Denmark, drafted very strict laws on carbon emission to be promulgated and put to effect during the summit for every nation to adhere to it. Nations headed by China and India resisted it due to the simple reason that all these laws were forced being put to effect due to the carelessness and irresponsibility of the very developed nations during yester years in the matters of carbon emission, global warming and Ozone depletion. It is indeed confounding to find who is right and who is not. End of the day, the summit really did not succeed in its endeavors. So, there could be another time and another place to continue the debate on and arrive at decisions that concern the future of mankind.

How would one rate Year 2009, good, bad or ugly? It simply was not a good year and stood somewhere between bad and ugly. A very eminently forgettable year that it was.

It is in such junctures that the expectations on the coming year really go up. Therefore, every body is looking forward to the Year 2010 to be a glorious one. On matters of Economy, Environment and Peace, every one wishes the year to make profound positive changes for the betterment of mankind. Let us just hope the Year 2010 delivers!

While I have been receiving many email and SMS wishes from yesterday onwards, the first phone call of the new year day to wish me well came from a good friend of mine for long. While the pleasantries were exchanged, he very casually said that this year would be good for me. I then reiterated that it better be and thanked him for the wish. It was then that he realized that he REALLY predicted that this year is going to be good for me. Then he added that simply because it just came out of his mouth as a very innocuous statement, the year would indeed be good to me. ‘Let your tongue be golden’, I sincerely wished him in return.

On that profound hope let me end this post. Like last year, this year too would fly by. I am sure I would get the time to review it in the end.

Let the time reveal what is in store.