Dear 2012

Dear 2012,

Much has been said about you. For someone barely a day old, a lot indeed :)  Including a mention in the ancient Mayan Calendar about the world ending and all that. (That too on my birthday--didn't I tell you in an earlier post that my birthdays are always rather special? :))

Well, I will tell you something now and I will say it just once. So pay attention.

Now that the drunken revelries and general bonhomie of wishing everybody, their aunt and their dog a very happy new year (fuelled more by vodka/whiskey or whatever be the alcoholic drink that has been ingested) whether one means it or not (thanks to social networks where people upload stolen photos and tag everybody including the aforesaid mentioned aunt and dog) is finally over (well I do hope it is), let us get down to business, shall we?

Throw what you want at me, dear 2012, but I am quietly going to LIVE each day. Not merely exist, but live. Even in the worst possible day where the worst possible things that could happen have happened, there is always some little thing to look forward to. Teeny weeny maybe, but it is still there, existing quietly in the background. Little things that one might miss, if one does not look for them.  Little but important things--things to be grateful for--like the brilliant  colours of a sunshine, the feel of grass beneath one's feet, the salty air of the ocean and the breeze against your body, the genuine  24 carat smile of a child, a flower that has bloomed, a  kind word which was said---oh, so many things really! I am going to focus on the things that went well--not the ones that did not.

I am going to take stock each night, probably write (with a  lovely ink pen in a beautiful bound book) what gifts the day brought me. I am going to steer my life, gently, aware that you hold the ultimate cards.

But hey, I am playing the game and I am playing it MY way--with MY rules!

So good luck . You might perhaps need it more than me :)

 

Yours sincerely
A tough little thing called Preeti Shenoy
(and no I am not smiling) :)
(and nobody's aunt or their dog were harmed in the making of this blogpost ;-)) 
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Ps----ssssst!

1. Today's Times of India (The Speaking Tree) has 'The best-sellers of 2011'. What a great honour that my book now appears along with greats like Randy Pausch, Robin Sharma, Rhonda Byrne, Deepak Chopra, Edward de Bono, Ekhart Tolle and the likes! I am so humbled and honoured :)

Thank you for the support and love that you shower on me. It would not have been possible without you, dear readers!

What a lovely start to a new year :)
A very happy new year to you and your loved ones :)

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