New Year Resolution

The days are numbered for ushering the New Year. Time to flip the last page of the calendar so dearly kept so far. Time to buy and exchange greeting cards. Time to party and guzzle few drinks. Time to welcome the New Year with lots of hope.

This is also time for one more habit bound ritual, taking New Year resolutions. We have plenty of choice here like spread of the New Year party. Quitting smoking, Exercise as part of fitness regime, implementing a dietary routine to lose few pounds, improving vocabulary, the archaic list goes on. Statistically, most of the New Year resolutions never see the light of the day after 3^rd week in January. No surprise. We all know about it.

We don’t have to run to psychologists to know the reasons behind the failures. The change desired is so steep; simply, cannot be sustained without steely determination.

Some of the resolutions are the urgent needs of an individual - life and death kind of, like quitting smoking or alcohol. Strictly speaking, one need not tag them to the onset of the New Year to begin implementing. New Year does not bring any special airwaves to breath-in, to succeed. Isn’t it?

I have a solution from my personal experience.

I took to smoking for fun as a student and soon it entrenched in my psyche, so deep I became an addict. Over a dozen years, I could feel my body asking for nicotine in every 25 to 30 minutes and I cannot hold but to light a cigarette to douse it. Fortunately, before it could affect my health, I realised and quit. Yes - I dropped it as if it’s a burning coal. I never felt the urge from then on and many of my friends called me lucky for giving up on a whim. It taught me a major lesson- habit is a thought. It will be with you as long as you entertain it. If you don’t entertain the thought, it deserts you. That is the secret. Same holds good to acquire a good habit – hold on to that habit-thought unceasingly.

Some dirty habits are community based. One such bad habit we all collectively, unknowingly indulged is, degrading the climate. We insulted and bruised her to the limit in our eagerness to conquer her. We are digging up, every ounce of her innards, burning and rejoicing. It has been continuing from last two centuries. We threw the uncivilised dirt in to the air, we cannot see and so we never noticed it. Of late, we started feeling it.

Until recently, she was silent and we took it as our victory. When reactions are surfacing, we are clueless and are beyond our comprehension. We need to mend our ways with steely Resolution. It is the time to end this dirty habit and protect mother earth’s fineries. It is the time to keep entertaining the thought of mother earth at every event of our life. Serious thought must precede the action.

The resolution has been taken collectively well ahead of New Year in Paris.

And it is the need of the hour, rather every second, to entertain the thought of restraint by each one of us to silence pleasure seeking soul within and start leading the life from private luxuries to sharing with the public -  otherwise, the years, if not days, will soon be numbered.

Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year for mother earth’s sake.

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