He says:

Another year rolled by me in a very short realizable time frame throwing out a lot of lessons. Few, I will keep and walk upon every day and a few, I will just store. After spending more than 25 years on mother earth, staying as the same happy go lucky person doesn’t seem to be prudent. So am trying to adapt myself. One gets better in life with these lessons that are narrated while traveling in axis of time.

Here’s one I realized this year. A new happy thing makes one extremely happy and that lasts for a few days. That happiness can overcome mountains of sorrow. At the same time, a new sad encounter hurts really bad and lasts several days too. Happy things can momentarily modify that train of thought, but this well programmed train will get back to its track in a few minutes. This is life for everybody and one has to cross this at some point in life. So no “God…Why just me?” any more.

I’ve always been a proponent of “Never take life as it comes, make life as you want”, but this year has made me realize that certain things are just out of our hands and that’s the design of life in this planet.

Another quote I’ve lived by (almost) is “Never ever give up”. I  keep the famous forward of the Frog catching a Crane’s neck on my desk for years. Now I’ve learnt that sometimes giving up at the right time is the smart thing to do.

Besides those valuable lessons I learnt, I got married, traveled a bit, forgot workouts, forgot running, got a little better in swimming and forgot skiing.

This year broke in when we just completed watching a a friend’s wedding video in a friend’s place. No resolutions besides the usual “stay calm and cool” getting into the new year, will just bend, fold and squish myself to blend with what life has in store for me.

Happy New Year…!!!

She says:

Yet another new dawn and boom….we are already into another New Year. Past year just breezed through. A little happiness, little disappointments, all in all a remarkable year. Life has been the same pretty much, at times a little hectic and a little cool otherwise. So have I learnt anything at all? Yeh…of course, to be more poise, to live the moment, to have my breakfast and hmmm….I guess that’s about it.

Getting married and adjusting to the whole new life took a good part of the year. First 9 months were darn hectic at work, left me more remorseful and dissented. Well the next 3 months were relatively better, left me more happy and relaxed. Makes me think, is it really worth spending so much time working for somebody or should I just pursue my interest - well let me leave it for time to answer. We traveled a bit - a lot less compared to previous years. We had my SIL, my mom and my best friend visiting us. Health wise things went for a toss most part of the year.

I am looking forward to this year, have so many things that I want to do, experiment a lot more and most of all to have fun like there’s no tomorrow.

So that concludes my philosophical anecdote. Well (sigh) yet another year older and none the wiser or may be a teeny weeny bit wiser.

Have a great year ahead :)