New Year Wishes

May health, happiness and good times greet you each day of the new year 2006! Happy New Year!

Best Regards,
sns.

Well, that has been the text of the email that I sent to my near, dear ones, friends, relatives and people I know. I received emails almost with similar sentiments, some as replies, some originated from the sender, some as reply disguised in new email (as when somebody is suddenly awake and thinks that oh yea, it's new year, I must send obligatory HNY email), some with spelling mistakes, some in my native language Marathi, while one from my closest friend, who I am sure does not wish anything better than the best for me, with reply 'fuck you', just because he hates spams and sporadic traffic of emotions on special days (including Diwali and New Year), some promising to talk on phone, while some replies as a phone call, and many other unanswered.

Important thing is that they received my well-intentioned emotions and somewhere in parallel universe, I also got all the best wishes they hoped for me after reading my note.

Here too, I wish you, although I don't know you exactly, neither I have heard your voice, nor may I have seen you, a happy and prosperous new year. Does not that sound totally insane? Why would I, to you, an anon, wish the best? Because giving something unconditionally is the only thing that you can do as a human being, giving something without expectations is in my opinion the best thing. All of our life, we are pursuing one thing after another...school, college admissions, post graduations, life partners, money, house and what not...so instead of that sometimes assume the role of a giver or a donor. Help someone "rationally" to something good in his/her life with the capabilities that you are sworn with. That joy of fulfillment is much more long lasting that running around a mirage all the time in your life for your own's sake.

Finally, every action has an equal and an opposite reaction, so be patient, good is own your way too!

So in the new year...

1. Remember the needful
2. Be a giver
3. Keep that ear-to-ear to smile on your face, no matter how many difficulties you are facing in your life. Butterfly of happiness attracts another butterfly of happiness
4. Be good to yourself and respect yourself

So wishing a heart-felt happy new year to you.

Lots of love, sns.

PS: Oh yes, it will a long time (almost a year) before I will write again here, so forget me not. :-)