Thursday, January 1, 2009
Thought of the day
Today is New Year's Day, the first of the year, the day to start afresh and make new resolutions. Why, I ask? Are the old resolutions so bad, or did they serve us so poorly? Or is that this day sanctions us to start afresh without having to look back and admit that things were wrong before, that we fell short, that we lost face, money, love, friendship, and ourselves in the process? Unpleasant looks back at a less than desirable reality - what does that achieve? Introspection is always painful, in that we are forced to accept that every other perspective is as valid as ours.
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I till date have never made a new year's resolution, reason I have never stuck to any of those, and plus I believe that new years resolutions are quite selfish, you make new years resolution on losing weight, exercising more often, or attending classes that will enhance your professional skill,these are developing your own physical appearence.
ReplyDeleteVery few people make new years resolution on being good to others not discriminating on the basis of caste, creed,class, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
I do believe that your resolution does not need a specific day, it needs determination to either be good to everyone or be nasty to some based on a fixed criteria or yardstick.
Recently one of my friend visiting me shared his experience that during a workshop that he was conducting one of the participants was very well versed and knowledgeable about sexual orientation and sexuality, he had been trained and was working in this particular field for the past six years, the other participants were heckling him and calling him Maichiya, hijra and questioning his sexual preference, they were also making snide remarks that as he was one he knew a lot.
For some time he took it sportingly, but then after the workshop it just got on his nerves and he tried to put a stop to the taunts by drinking and trying to take his own life.
Shocking that this kind of bullying still happens in the adult world, but true. Why am i bringing this issue up today, because this is a recent incident, and a very common one.
We somehow have forgotton that each single day is enough to make us a little larger, the things we accomplish, the people we meet and communicate, the directions we set today will have consequences far into the future.