New Year's Vows
Beginning of the year always presents me with bitter sweet sentiments. Bitter because I am reminded of goals set but not met, sweet because of the realization that I can start with a renewed sense of purpose.
This time, this year, 2022, will be different. I know I will fair better because I am keenly aware of my pitfalls, and know the culprit of my failures in the year past. I vow to make an effort to learn from my mistakes and meet not only my 2021 goals, but the added 2022 ones for the passage of years presents me with a sense of urgency to do what I wish to do with my life.
This time, this year, I will make every minute count and count every minute, devoting them to meaningful and rewarding purposes, reminding myself that what we leave behind is the only thing that endures.
This year,
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• I will exercise more and engage in more strenuous mental activities so that I can buy more time.
• I will read more so I can write more.
• I will give more, and do so in more fundamental ways, so I can scrape off the sense of guilt I carry for all my blessings.
• I will converse more on things that matter, so I can understand. But more importantly, I will try to listen more.
• And I will write more, for that is the ultimate test of times.
To do all that, somethings will have to give, for there are only so many productive hours in the day and years in one’s life. But first I will have to stop being bitter about the makeup of our creation, perplexed at the irony of life; that just as we begin to reap the fruit of our experiences, we lose the gifts of our youth that would have allowed us to put our learnings into use. I will stop being annoyed that we have to spend one third of our day in sleep when we can instead live more, or have to bother with three meals a day when one would be more efficient and meaningful. Instead, I plan to use my resources, my time, my energy wisely and try to enrich the depth of my life to compensate for the limited length. And above all, I vow to exercise gratitude and humility.
Thank you to all my friends who help me along the path and enrich my journey.
