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While a major part of the world is all atwitter about the brand New Year about to dawn and are ready to kick start the same with lists of resolutions over which they have probably labored a lot, a list they intend sticking to the whole year through but are worried about their ability to do so since the track record for the previous years aren’t too good, I sit relaxed and secure in the knowledge that I will not, unlike them, break any resolutions. Oh no Siree I definitely will not.
Does that sound too smug a statement?? Overconfident perhaps, may be a tad on the pompous side?? But then breaking anything half way through is definitely not my style! Did you really think I was the sort?? Is this what you folks think about good old moi?? That I discard resolutions by the wayside?? Tch tch tch.. I am made of sterner stuff. Catch me breaking any New Year resolutions! I dare you Sirs and Madams.
I know a lot of people want to know the secret behind this excellent quality of resoluteness of mine, this track record I hold of not ever having broken a New Year resolution, though I am guessing a lot of you already know what’s coming. It is quite simple actually. I just don’t make any New Year resolutions. Okay, okay, I guess I deserve those bricks being thrown at me.
I remember reading something long back and being mighty impressed. I wrote it out to stick on my wall during my student days. It read: “Today is the first day of the rest of my life!” It is something which has remained with me since. I believe it totally. If I have to start off on something, I don’t wait for any particular day, any shubh (auspicious) divas (day), any day of importance or even the New Year. Whatever I want to do is begun on the very day I take the decision. For, today is after all the first day of the rest of my life! This suits the lazy moi to perfection.
Yet I know a lot of you out there aren’t like the lazy moi and have their to-do lists for the coming year. Here’s wishing you all success in adhering to your resolutions of the year! The New Year with all its attendant glamour gaiety and joy is now at our doorstep, just a few hours away, bringing in its wake a new decade as well.
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU!
May all your wishes come true in 2010
And….
May you wish for that
which makes you genuinely happy
and none else unhappy!
Shail's Nest 
Happy new year to you too.. 🙂
Me: Thanks Vivek. Have a fun-filled year ahead and write more and more blogs! 🙂
That was a beautiful wish at the end 🙂 And yes yes yes, I knew how it is that you simply do not break resolutions! 🙂 Good one!
New year wishes, once again!
Me: Usha its simply WOW seeing you back here. I really miss your insightful comments! 😦 Of course you would know how it is that I don’t break resolutions, intelligent lady that you are!! 😉 Thanks for the wishes. Wishing you and yours a wonderful year ahead.
That is a perfect solution,
for avoiding any retribution,
of not having any resolution,
and so easy on the execution.
Happy New Year to you and your dear ones. :):)
Me: Yeah, easy in the execution is right! 😛 Thanks for the wishes Govind. Here’s wishing you and yours a wonderful years ahead! 🙂
Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year!
Me: Thanks and wish you the same too Deependra! 🙂
I m kinda one who doesnt bother about the 31st… its just another day for me…
But I do wish one and all !!!!!
Happy new year to you !!!!! and hoping it brings more cheer in life !!!!
Me: The junior son and I were just talking about this on New Year’s eve, that it was just another day after all! 🙂 Thanks for the wishes and here’s wishing you cheer too! Keep us all smiling Hitch! 🙂
Hehehehehe! Smart Goil!!
Me: Aren’t I?? 😉 😛 🙂 Lol…
Our Best wishes for a happy and peaceful New Year, Shail, to you and your family! God bless you! Be happy always!
Will read the post later!
Me: Thanks Sandhya. Have a blessed year ahead. My best wishes to you and your family. 🙂
Best wishes for a very Happy New Year to you and your family Shail!
That’s a great idea not to make any resolution at all. I have already made a few for this year and I ‘m sure they will be broken after a few weeks, some ‘lucky’ ones may last a couple of months too :). I will remember this post of yours for 2011. LOL, this is going to be yet another resolution:)
Me: Lol, yeah so this is the resolution for you in the coming year Basanta! 😀 Thanks for the wishes and all best wishes for 2010 to little Aarya, you and your wife! 🙂
Happy New Year !
Me: Thanks Dinu, to you too! 🙂
Wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new Year!!!
Me: Thanks Antarman. May you have a wonderful year ahead.
which makes you genuinely happy
and none else unhappy!..these two lines say everything in few words,should be followed by everybody…..Thanks for writing them!!!!
Me: You are welcome Renu. Happy new Year! 🙂
Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
lovely line, Shail! Hope ur 2010 is as wonderful as ur blog 🙂
Me: Awww…. thanks Shaili! 🙂 May all your dreams come true this year!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! I dont make any resolutions too!
Me: Hey, nice to know anotheronelike me! Have a wonderful 2010 Reema!
lovely lovely
happy new yea shail
Me: Thanks. Have a fun-filled and blessed year ahead Monika. 🙂
Thank you for those beautiful wishes. May the coming year bring you and your family too lots of happiness to last forever 🙂
Me: Thanks so much Deeps for your lovely wish. May you and Namnam and the DH have blessed and joyful year ahead. 🙂
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life!”
Only I have realized the true meaning of it. It means you (not you, just a way of language you (this is you) see!) are probably a lazy bum and going to laze away whole life, so why not start this resting of a lifetime today!!! No procrastinating! 😉
Happy Well-rested New Year!
Me: Welcome to my page Stupidosaur. What an interesting name you have! 😉 And I am thankful that you made clear that the ‘you’ was not actually me you meant. I was debating whether to send a red brick missile your way. 😛 Just kidding!
Thanks for the wishes. Have a wonderful year ahead.
My only resolution year after year is to not make any resolutions :D. Wish you, L&M and your boys a very Happy New Year 😀
Me: Thank you Dreamer and my wishes to you and yours. Ahhh I like your resolution a lot and I bet you stick to it too!! 😉
This is my first visit.
A very happy new year to you.
God bless
Me: Welcome to my page B.K.Chowla. Thanks for the wishes. May the year ahead be a blessed one for you. 🙂
Good way to look at it. I will start my needed behavior modi- fication on the first day of the rest of my life when I have realized such a needed behavior to modify.
Several months ago we had a four evening retreat at Church led by a Catholic priest from the state of Wisconsin. He said that we should always live our lives so that we are ready to go (from our earthly life) when the Heavenly Father or Jesus calls us. He put a spin on the “first day of the rest of your life” thought by saying that for many people tomorrow may well be the last day of their earthly lives. I have never thought of it that way. But obviously such a reality confronts many people everyday, no?
As usual, I enjoyed your reading here. It is an interesting format you have “to toy with” the readers before defining what you really mean–makes it interactive and interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Best in 2010 and the years beyond for the Mohan family.
Me: Thanks for the wishes Bob. I guess there are a lot of people for whom ‘tomorrow may well be the last day of their life’ but actually, just as we say, today is the first day of the rest of my life, we can also say, today may well be the last day of my life as well! Do we really know?? 🙂
January 5, 2010 is the 86th anniversary of my Mother’s birth. She passed away on January 17, 2005.
Bob
Me; May her soul rest in peace Bob.
A very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all in your “nest” nad those visiting your “nest”..
nd me too never make any resolutions.. take each day as good and try to do my best… though some(including moi) would say it is not the best:)
Me: Lol, but it still is the best, don’t worry!! 🙂 Thanks for the lovely wish, ‘in my nest’ and ‘visiting my nest’ oh wow I like that!! 🙂 Happy NY once again Happy Kitten. Your name brings up such a lovely pic to the mind. I love kittens, they are so playful and naughty! 🙂
😀 😀 now then I knew exactly what you meant when you said that about never breaking resolutions 😀
*didnt throw a single brick* see? 🙄
Happy New Year to you and your loved ones Shail 🙂
May this year and the years to come be all that you have dreamt of and wished for 🙂
((((((((((((hugs)))))))))) 🙂
Me: Smart Abhi, I knew you’d get it! 😉 This is a special year for you too. Wishing you all that’s wonderful, once again! (((((((((((hugs))))))))) 🙂
Happy today! Hooray!
Me: Hey Sally, nice to see you. Happy today!! 🙂