Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Happy New Year

New Year is the time of celebration and stamps the beginning of year ahead according to Gregorian calendar. We all know historians and anthropologists would explain different cultures mark New Year at different time during the year, due to various reasons and celebrated in various ways. But what we really care about is following various trends we see around inherited from many cultures chained with many activities and sustained through ages with little bit our own creativity. This day is the time of celebration when many celebrate it at holiday spots. Many special programs run on TV. People plan parties, night outs to make that day memorable. Travel lovers roam around the world to explore new places.

Among many trends we see around, most common trend is New Year resolution. We are all obsessed with New Year resolutions. Whether we believe or not, but the idea of taking resolution fascinates everybody. Besides the basic ones like losing weight, ‘learning something new’, ‘quit smoking’. Few come up very different ones like ‘Getting organized’ or ‘reading books’. Choosing one for you gives self-esteem and sharing with friends gathers lot of respect without much of an effort.

Whatever be the case, one thing is common, dissolution of the resolution into our mind is so fast that after few days it becomes even hard to recollect what ‘the resolution’ was all about. Plenty were there in the mind at that time. Which one was finalized becomes the question. Only place it shows up when friends in a group taunt you about the resolution which you had confidently and mistakenly broadcasted to everybody at that time. They say it takes 21 days to become a habit but the resolution seems to vanish even far before that period. Finally only ‘making no resolution’ sustains for years.

But taking resolutions gives us a chance to look into ourselves, make us often conscious about the goals we want to achieve, habits we want to pursue. We all try to explore the positive side of commitments and to see the effect on our personality. Well, one might wonder commitment to oneself be most egoistic thing but one of the safest options as well. We slowly learn to ignore the honour part and grab the practical part of it and set the more realistic resolution next time.