2009 Coming Up!


It is the 31st of Dec, 2008. The last day of this year. Tomorrow will be a new day, a new year. And as always, the feelings are mixed - How will the new year be? Will it bring any better luck or fortunes? Why will it be any different? What is changing...the morning of Jan 1, 2009 will be the same as all other mornings...so what is the big deal?

I think the idea behind this frenzy of a New Year is hope and loads of it! Everybody hopes that somehow the next year will be better. A new beginning will be possible only if the old is laid to rest. It is a closure and therefore a beginning too. It is a cycle as is every other thing in this world. And though we may not realise it, it is this circle that gives us a sense of comfort.

What goes around comes around...
From beginning to the end, from end to the beginning
Life, Time, Seasons - all move around in a circle

Though we talk about vicious circles and wanting to break away from the circle, we also find real comfort and peace only when in a circle. It is a circle when we say good follows evil, evil follows good, good follows evil, light follows dark, winter follows summer, old age follows youth, rain becomes the sea...everything is a circle. And if, things don't follow this circular pattern, we feel disoriented.

Circles are smooth, round, closed, complete
Squares are sharp, triangles sharper still, Rectangle is but a square broadened
Circles are smooth, round, closed, complete

As this year closes, another one waits in the wings...last minute make up done, just ruffling its feathers a bit.

Each year teaches us something only to be forgotten in the other year, to make way for new learning and new beginnings. Beginnings are always new...you never begin something again.

I had liked the sound of the word 'two thousand eight'. And now, am trying to say 'two thousand nine' or 'two oh oh nine' or 'two zero zero nine'...hmm...this feels like nine. But i always liked 8...and i will always remember 2008 as an year in which there were lots of waves, volcanoes, whirlpools...endings, beginnings as always ...just like a circle.

2009 coming up...and bringing hope with it as did 2008 and as will 2010.

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Heart'n'Soul said…
WOWIE

I never thought so much about circles before that... aceept that i always hoped i wont get one in exams


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Nice piece laydaeh!!!
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