I’m pretty sure plenty of you are already drawing resolutions for this forthcoming year. Resolutions as old as the Roman Coliseum, and another fact that is as old as the age of dinosaurs is that I have never met a person who has managed to get his/her resolutions anywhere near being fulfilled during the year. Heck, life is unpredictable. You don’t know where you will end up. I might end the year walking on the moon, who knows?
That said, of course we wake up every day with the hope of a better future. We are all heading to our destinations. You can’t tell what the next 365 days might have in store for you, but you can be assured that it will bring you closer to your destination. Just do what needs to be done in order to reach your promise land. I don’t have a resolution for 2011- I will just do what needs to be done in order to get where I am supposed to be. To be a writer, to tell my stories to the world, to be a film-maker.
My marker is simple- If I’m writing a similar article like this at this very site 365 days from now, the site should receive more hits than the amount it is receiving right now. Heck, I’d take even a meagre one extra hit. It might not mean anything in the web world, but for me, it’s progress. I won’t bang my head on any walls, because when I wake up every day, I know I have tried, am trying and will try. That’s enough. Hits will not measure my success. How I feel when I wake up every day, that will. End of the day, that’s all it matters doesn’t it?
I won’t restrict my options. I will continue writing till I find a publisher, and I will continue typing scripts till I find a producer. I have taken an open, clean, beautiful road to reach my destination. Anything could happen, I do not know what lies ahead in the path, but I do know I have chosen the right path.
Here’s my quote for the year:
Every man is just ordinary; it is the journey that makes one extraordinary. Everyone has a destination, but not all take the journey.
This will definitely be the tagline for one of my future films. And I can guarantee you my journey are already an extraordinary one.
And a big part of that belongs to a certain someone. I am going to have my first anniversary this year. I don’t have to describe how important or how influential it has been. Let’s just say it plays a big part in me waking up feeling content during the past year. The day will come when I will wax lyrical about it. I will save all of it for that day.
There are important dates in March and September this year. Someone is going to get married. I never imagined that my ludicrous bet which is only a year old will become a reality so quickly, now that is yet another example that so many things can change in a short time. You just need to believe. Little over a year ago, my cousin sister did not believe in love, bravely put a bet that she will never fall in love, or anything such. Till March, that seemed to be the case. But few months later, she was spewing a man’s wall with cheesy calls of ‘jaan’. You figure the rest. She’s getting married this year. And I want to say is that more than the joy of winning the bet, I am happy for you. In fact, I am happy for the world. Because your story proves love defeats almost anything.
All is well, my dear sister. You will have a blissful matrimony. But, matrimony won’t matter. I’ll still bug you in the same manner I do nowadays.
June is going to be a great month. Because a certain Dr. will set his foot back in Malaysia after seven years of bewilderment in a cold, snow-ridden small town in Ukraine. Welcome back, brother. Breathe fresh air. So much has changed since he was last here, and finally we can start to look forward to the future we always talked about. Not everything went as planned. But the dream is still there. Always will be.
I guess this year will be about celebrations mainly. Celebrating what exactly? Life I guess.
Now some people have begun growing up. Even 14-year-olds of my family are beginning to ogle at sparkling women from the temple. It’s time to realize they are youths now. That’ll only give me more reasons to mock them I guess. That’s a good thing.
Most importantly, I think this year I have well and truly figured out how to spend life only with those who matter. There were a couple of them last year that I held close to the heart when I shouldn’t have. Not anymore. I got rid of them, fair and square.
The dream might not be here yet. But part of the dream is all about being surrounded by great people. I can safely say that dream too has come true. People who matter are the only ones surrounding me at present.
Thank you.
(This thank you is intended for all of you who are reading this. As I say, everyone and everything matters. Nothing is trivial. And the article above was 888 words long. What a way to start the year eh? 8 is my favourite number- sometimes, we need to be superficial 
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