It was the time when most of the
educational institutions had closed for Christmas vacation. It had left me at
home though it was not any big event at least for me. After doing some daily
chores, pondering for relaxation, I switched on the television with the daily
newspaper held in hand.
As any of the peer group teens of
this modern era, I did skip channels and tuned for a music channel. The coming
of yet another prosperous year became the topic and talk for that day. Queerly
that did not stop with people greeting each other.
Usually the video jockeys raise
questions to the callers to germinate some discussions that would engage time
and its viewers. The callers would enthusiastically react like they had been
blessed with some kind of wizard on call. At times, they do go mad when they
their favourite video jockeys on call. To my surprise, the jockeys questioned
the callers about the resolution they had set for this New Year. More
astonishingly, the callers revealed every daily chore possible as their
resolution for the year like being good at work and education, being punctual and
many more. They sounded odd. Questions like what can vitally be named under
resolution and are they meant to be occasional rose in my mind.
Peeping into a daily newspaper
held in my hands, with all my interest, I read a story titled “What can be your
New Year resolution?” in its supplementary sheet. Comically, that was the day I
realized being affectionate to people and falling in love can be called a
resolution too.
My grandparents and parents lived
in the era where they celebrated occasions of togetherness and took resolutions
whenever (possible) they had to survive a hardship. They also took resolutions
then and there from the experiences and lessons they learnt from life. It was
like as immediate as they were punished for a wrong doing; they set themselves
to a resolution as not to commit it any longer. But the people of today think
of resolutions occasionally and their follow up have become episodic.
Making resolutions occasional, it
has almost lost its momentum, spirit and value. Timeliness speaks the worth of
it. Much before we set a resolution for the upcoming year to be punctual, we
had been late to work for almost two hundred days of the preceding year. Much
before we set a resolution for the year to be loving and affectionate to people
around, we already ended up earning lot of hatred from our neighbourhood. Resolutions
are meant to serve its purpose when developed and more vitally followed. Do you
still want your resolutions be occasionally set and followed? Don’t let your
resolutions be episodic. Wishing you accomplish timely resolutions in all the
years to come.
