Friday, December 24, 2010

Year-end post 6

Sunshine does cheer you up. Even for a person like me, who has grown up braving the scorching, angry Amdavadi sun, sitting out right in the sunbeams on a sun-heated floor still ranks highest as one of the simple pleasures of life. As this morning unfolds, I ask myself several questions. How will sun shine on me in 2011? That's the gist of all the innumerable questions that occupy me now.

There's the question of truth, how we analyse our truths and how far we are ready to go to defend them. Having always gone the extra mile to be with what I have believed in, 2011 should definitely be fun on the truth (and all such things) front.

Next comes the question of trust. Should you continue to nurture the innate trust in human goodness that you were born with or should you let the brutality of the real world shake your faith? Will I be able to trust that stranger who smiles at me for no particular reason as he crosses the road? Will I smile back? Will 2011 make me conscious, cautious and thrifty with my smiles? Moving on in the same dimension, comes the question of finding trust in the people around you. Mind you, out of the many acquaintances you may have, only some are friends and out of those friends, only a select few are around forever. Is it worthwhile trusting outside this circle of people? But then again, life puts certain conditions under which trusting is the only option. In 2011, will my equation with trust change?

And the question that frightens me the most.

Will I change in 2011?

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2 comments:

YOSEE said...

But why is the prospect of change frightening, when one does not even know how one is going to change ? Yes, we dont want to lose our acknowledged virtues and good sense, sacrificed to the brute influences of life. But I like to think one can, if one bothers to, withstand onslaughts with teflon self resolve -i.e., get stirred and shaken, ( and maybe rant a bit to let off steam) but,retain the core unsullied. It may be seen as Education too.
They say, nothing can change one without one's permission ! The remote is always in our hands.

Have a great 2011 !

Gauri Gharpure said...

Teflon self-reserve :) I have made a note of every word you have said and yes, I shall firmly keep control of the remote. Thanks!