Happy New Year

I wonder if there is anyone else in this world writing on a blog apart from me today. It’s the first day of 2010. We need to get used to this new numerical form of 2010. Somehow this reminds me of all those sci-fi movies where robots ruled the world and had huge wars with aliens from outer space. But things haven’t changed drastically after all. Homo-sapiens are still ruling the world. And despite all our funky laptops and mobile phones that do a million things, we are yet to invent a time machine when Arnold Sc$%#@&* (fogive me but I could never spell his surname) could come back to earth with his sleek black glasses from the future and tell us over and over again, “I’ll be back.” He hasn’t, I am afraid…..and that was the eighties (nineties?).
I remember all of us dancing to Jennifer “the Gorgeous” Lopez’s song “ Waiting for Tonight” in the advent of the new millennium. And here we are ten years down the line. A lot older. A lot fatter. And all happy that we are into a new year. And if this is an excuse to celebrate life, well….. “Happy New Year!!!!!”
J Krishnamurthy, in his journal, writes that it is not time that is moving but it is us. It is our lives. Its our cycle that is constantly changing. The time is a constant. He makes a lot of sense, doesn’t he? It’s the humans that invented time. It was never there. So we have seconds and minutes and days and months and years….and of course a happy new year to celebrate. But then we also have deadlines! Imagine life without time? Pretty confusing, isn’t it? But J Krishnamurthy also says in his quotes in his journal that, “the observer is the observed and the observed is the observer.” So its upto to us have our perspective to time. It’s upto to you whether you want deadlines and work hard and accomplish things. Or take it easy with life. And you will be right both ways because it’s your happiness that really matters in the end.
But the great thing about time is that it’s the same everywhere….whether it’s all those expensive Swiss watches or those cheap ones sold on top of our flyovers of the roads, plunged in those plastic mugs to show off their resistance to water. One pm is the same every where. Though the meaning for one pm could be a meeting or a siesta.
Well whether we want it or not, the only thing constant in this world is change….whether it be as unwelcome as the change of numbers on the fare meter of a taxi or welcome as the first word of a baby. Things are changing. And 2009 has changed to 2010….so lets get used to the new change in the year, everytime we write the date.
But beyond parties and all the singing and drinking, this new year brings us hope. Its something new and crisp. And I wish you all of these….let this freshness give you courage and hope and the zeal to make great and beautiful changes. Changes that make you realize how beautiful life is….and the need to celebrate it each day! Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!