2020: adios amigo!

The year 2020 was cruel to most of us, but it taught us many positive lessons. It made us appreciate and be grateful for all that we have, and realise what we really need in life to be happy. It was a lesson needed for the world to reboot and rethink of its priorities. It reminded us that we have been making the mistake of using people and loving things when it needs to be the other way round. It made us realise the importance of the people in our lives - even if they are the people who do mundane jobs in our households and whom we tend to take for granted. It also made us realise that our wealth can't protect us from the virus or a calamity, but our fellow humans can; the great work done by the medical fraternity, the workers who helped us stay alive during the lockdown, was truly commendable. No words can really describe how grateful the rest of us are for these courageous selfless servants of humanity.

I hope we have learnt the lessons and learnt them well as a race, as life tends to keep repeating the tests we fail to learn. 

And, I hope that when tomorrow someone says like John Lennon did as a child, that he wants to be happy when he grows up, we don't tell that child that he has not understood the question, for then it is we who have not understood the answer.

I think it is time for all of us to rethink, refocus, reprioritise what is important for us, to be happy. Afterall, it is all that truly matters. Rest is just a means to the end. And not the end in itself.

Hope the new year will be kinder to all of us and help us take a step closer to our ultimate goals in Karma. 

May we all live happily in 2021 ! 

Happy new year in advance