Resolution time, once again

This has been the longest ever gap between two posts on this blog. Not that I have written multitudes of these ever since I started almost ten years back. And I am certainly not going to justify, or come up with any excuse. There are so many thoughts, so many actions, equal if not more number of reactions - it is plain and simple, good old lethargy. Frankly, I am back here only and only because I did not want this to be the first year when I didn't have a post. As always, thanks to dear missus, I will ensure this year doesn't go blank either.

Next few lines, however, are not a result of any kind of lethargy - many will still be tempted to call it so. But still ... When I was putting my thoughts together on what should go in here - knowing very well that as against my usual full week of thinking time before I post, I only have a couple of hours to come up with something - I kept on going back to what I wrote exactly fours years back. Even then it was towards the end of the year, and I wanted to avoid drawing a blank. But what I wrote then finds resonance even today, and it continues to be one area we need to come back to again and again. If I go back to my thoughts during the peak of the pandemic, what I wrote four years back should have become very obvious. However, looking at how we have gone back to good old days within 12 months of the peaks we saw last year makes me bring the three points back. They are what I called a set of realizations ...

... that ultimately what matters is your family, friends and dear ones ... those who really care for you ... the experiences that you would cherish ... those little (and large) adjustments you make

... that there is no end to any of this ... there will always be more money to be earned, more promotions to yearn for, more material pleasures, more of everything - you can never have enough

... and finally, that no attitude tops gratitude ... be thankful for everything that you have, and perhaps for so many things that you don't have ... you know not what those missing possessions entail

And hence all the more reason for these to be the focus of the resolutions for the coming year.