Guest guest Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 A very powerful message therein, Dr Bharat. To you and yours too... Ravin '82 On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Bharat Sharma wrote: > ** > > > New year means new desires and new hopes. And, everybody > fervently expects the fulfillment of their wishes. We wish this to happen > to our family and friends too. It is also the time to make > promises, mostly dubious, which are rarely kept. See how gleefully people > say promises are > meant to be broken. Some use the term ' New Year resolution' > to inject more determination into their promises. However, they invariably > prove themselves to be less resolute than they had so > boastfully proclaimed to be. This paradoxical desire to change and yet > remain the same afflicts me also. After all, I am not very different from > others. > > Despite the frenzy associated with the New Year, I am unable to keep my > cynicism under check. What will be new in the New Year? The sun will still > rise in the east. I will have the same neighbour. I will go to office at > the same time and do the same work. I will read the same newspaper with the > same unpleasant stories. There will be the same scandals. The justice > system will be the same, taking painfully long time to decide on anything. > We will have the same mummified man in control. (However, it is widely > believed that he was never in control.) So what is new? As for myself, I > would be happy with a new perspective on something in life. I would like to > see something new in myself and in others. Also, I would definitely like Dr > Shah to write new stories and Dr Oberoi new poems. > > The New Year celebrations are already being planned at our place. But the > whole event is very much predictable. Still, an evening full of fun is > assured. I vividly remember one New Year party. It was a small gathering. > We were at a restaurant. It was a party like any other New Year party. > Ladies were busy with their customary tidbit. Children had their own > private party going on boisterously. Men are men: They were drinking > steadily and exchanging their experiences. The banter built up > progressively. The talented few entertained us with songs. At the stroke of > midnight, we ushered in the New Year with a toast. Our ardour cooled after > some time. Ultimately, everybody had to go home. > > We stepped out of the restaurant to be engulfed by thick fog. It was > bitterly cold--cold enough to make the ladies and children complain about > the treacherous weather. Then I encountered a disconcerting sight. At a > distance outside, a woman was standing desolately. She was grossly > inadequately dressed for the weather. She was carrying a child who looked > malnourished. The child desperately clung to the mother for warmth. She was > enduring the cold (and certainly endangering the child) in the hope that > she would be able to get something extra form the revelers. I realised why > beggars cannot be choosers. > > The beggar's image remained embedded in my mind. I thought for a long time > what the New Year meant to her. Would it change anything for her and her > child? Her sorrowful appearance and the helplessness in her eyes has > haunted me ever since. > > MERRY CHRISTMAS > & > HAPPY NEW YEAR > > I wish for some happiness for that unknown > destitute also. > > Bharat > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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