« New
year .. New me » is a phrase I come across every day on the internet, when
the year starts crawling to its end ; People annually indulge in false optimism
and publically manifest their will to improve themselves .. just as soon as the
new year begins, not now. “Now” is not “good” like the movie suggests, now is
messy , now is wicked, now is their minds in too late.
Inactivity
is a very active state of mind, a decision that we live with every day, it
lives through us, out of us , and thrives at our expense. Do we really want
this ? No, we rather exhaust ourselves with loathsome obligations than go ahead
and do something that makes our hearts pound, and our souls flourish and sing.
What about our ambitions and aspirations ? No,
we are a preoccupied race, we are busier than bees; we have duties, fully-scheduled
weeks, pre-designed lives that suck the life out of us. We rather wake up “bright
and early for [our] daily races, going nowhere ..” as go the lyrics of the song
“Mad World”.
We
are mad not to live now, “live immediately” like Seneca advises. But no, We
leave the things that we love till after exams, after graduation, after
marriage .. till time becomes untimely and our dreams undone ..
“Now
is Good”, do not wait for the next year to create the new you. Now, be brave
and say that long-awaited I love you, that reluctant I am sorry
.. burst out, without thinking, and I say the things that have long been
heaping upon your chest ..
Start
that diet already ! .. Finish that wickedly inaccessible book .. Write that
beautifully abstract short story that was long spinning melodiously in your
head .. Make that damn delicious looking cake you saw on the internet with the
secret ingredient .. Think of ways to concretize that dream project of yours
for dreams do not exist in notebooks .. Start practicing your passion on a
daily basis, you’re never too old to learn a new language or pick up a new
instrument or embark on a new dream ..
The
new You is up to you to make .. Time does not make you, it just pours
down quietly like a stream, in one direction , you mould it to your liking ..
You choose to live or just exist .. Now is Good ..
