This year has been a strange contradiction of a whirlpool beginning, big life decisions and a relative sense of comfort in stepping out of my comfort zones.
This year was going to be different. I had had it all planned out but life as always loves to surprise and surprise she has.
In addition to getting another splendid year with and helping my parents live healthier lives, I worked on bettering myself - strengthening my mind, working on fixing my body (slacked a bit lately but will turn that around soon enough) and destroying my inherited asocial nature.
2017 is the year I will remember as the one where I realised that I can always make new friends. You know the little fable you hear, when you enter college - "The friends you make in college will be your best friends for life" - Terribly untrue. You can make and meet your kindered spirit at any given age, at any given time and you can also lose them at any given moment.
It has always been difficult and strange for me to stand in front of someone new and be me. Be me and not think about what it is they are judging about me.
I'm not perfect and my work on me is never going to be complete but the past 7-8 months has taught me things I shunned about myself years ago - perhaps to please the masses.
I'm not perfect and I don't think I should be but to be able to even peep my toe out of the well wrapped cocoon I am in, is an achievement I would really like to give myself a pat on my back for.
So here is to friendships old and new, to all the ones who stayed and the ones I lost. I wish you all a very happy Diwali and hope that your lives are filled with colours, lights and a suitcase full of well wishers!
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