Another year approaches its end as various memes and jokes make their way into our daily news feed on the numerous Social Networking sites. We start receiving the New Year’s calendars and jot down our name in it. Hoping that the coming year would be more fruitful than the one about to pass. We look back to this year, look back at all our successes and failures, our weak moments and our strong ones. We look back at the new people we met and at the ones we lost and at me memories we made. It’s the New Year’s Eve that is the most celebrated around the world. With so many memories of the passing year and the so many more memories of the New Year, it’s a joyous time.
Three types of people in this world right now; the ones who are satisfied with the progress their life made in this year, the ones who had to face many downfalls and finally the ones who never moved, they didn’t have a downfall nor any progress. They stand right now exactly where they stood at the beginning of this year. The best out of the three are the ones who made progress as well as the ones who had downfalls. So because, these are the people who actually live this year, the people who made an effort to change themselves and/or the world, their success or failure in doing so does not count. The effort, the energy, the will, the determination, that counts. And this is the type of person that all of us should strive to be. Living is not the same as simply existing. Every object you see daily exists and then expires. If one does not live they simply exist and expire. But we are humans, we are so much more than that, so much deeper than that.
You are your own person. You make your life or you break it. You make it through your tough times or you break yourself in them. So take risks. Everyone has two options, to do it or to not. So don’t just sit back as your life unfolds in front of you, get up and get out of your comfort zone and as Nike says ‘Just Do It!’.
As a human being, or putting it more scientifically, as a Homo sapiens sapiens you have an inbuilt ability to do more, push limits and be ambitious. Don’t waste the energy of your ancestors by doing nothing, don’t waste the abilities of your brain by not exercising it. Show the ones who don’t believe in you and your dreams. Make it happen. Make it work. Only you know your dream. No one knows it better than you do. So start working on it before someone else makes you work on theirs. The only person on this entire planet who can do what you can, is you. The world is waiting for what you have to offer. So let’s resolve to not just exist but live in this coming year of 2017.
“I resolve to do in 2017
What I was supposed to do in 2016
That I carried forward to 2015
From an unsuccessful 2014.
Its resolution I made in 2013
Since I forgot to make one in 2012
So carried the burden to 2011
That I had in 2010
As I didn’t do much in 2009
Because I resolved too much in 2008
And not much in 2007…”
(Opinion by Sara Jain)
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