Do you need a Resolution?

Now is the time of frivolous messages with meticulously copied rhymes or paragraphs so sweet that you'd get diabetes. It's also considered to be acceptable to make resolutions and you're compelled to look back and analyze every terrible decision you've made. If that wasn't difficult enough, on further scrutiny, you attempt to realign your life and give it a nudge in the right direction. 

For all those who do manage to do that, I salute you. But most of us don't. So much planning just gives us a headache. What happens when we make resolutions, is that we try to change ourselves. We attempt to change our lifestyle and method of making decisions. In the magic of new beginnings, we try to forget who we are and become who we wish to become. And that's okay. It's perfect actually. But forcing ourselves to study/work six hours a day when you've managed only six minutes before or losing a few kilos when you aren't ready to exercise and put in any effort doesn't make sense.

While playing basketball, you can't plan how exactly each and every basket is going to take place. All you need to do is break some sweat, know your game and have faith that your teammates know theirs as well. The basket happens on its own. The same thing happens with resolutions. You need to know the basket. You need to put in some effort. Then all you can do is watch it spin around the rim, as it teases you before swishing inside. Or pick it up and try again if it doesn't! While every basket is a success, every failed attempt is motivation to get the combination right!

So I hope you start this year with emotion, because it is emotion that makes you want to do stuff. It is the hunger to achieve something that makes you dream. The agony of losing something helps you hold on to stuff and the desire to remain happy makes sure you move on. If you're angry or sad, I hope you have someone to vent it out on because getting it out of your system is the best thing you could do. But if someone's there for you, you might as well realise you shouldn't be glum in the first place. I wish you figure out how many baskets you want to do and handpick your own team of volunteers to help you touch the sky and slide down the rainbow. Learning new stuff is amazing. And oh yes, I hope you find something or someone new to love as well.

Sing a song. Dance to a rhythm. 

Paint a memory. Capture moments. Devour a book. Cook a story.

Do anything, really. Like Neil Gaiman said, make mistakes. Make glorious mistakes or even hilariously useless ones if you like. Because atleast that way you're doing something. 

365 new days. 

* rubs palms*
*dreams of the after-twelfth era*
*yawns*
It's 1am. (when I was typing this it was!)
*sleeps and continues dreaming*

Kanksha :)

Thanks for reading! You guys are the best. <3 Have a great end to 2014 and a smashing year too! :D