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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

Comments

Shital Mehta said…
Very well written n so true👍👍
December 24, 2020 at 7:49 PM
Experiences: Blog by Tilak Amitava Chowdhury said…
Thanks Shital your comments mean a lot 🙏😊
December 24, 2020 at 7:52 PM
Plasma Man said…
Good that you wrote this.
2020 certainly came in with a motivation. With an Agenda.

One can't win alone. We all are in this together. The mask on your face alone means nothing. You're not safe, if he isn't.

If we fail to learn our lessons, the pandemic may stay on and wait for the learnings to get over.

Looking forward to a 2021 which isn't expected to be much different, but certainly with a very new perspective.
December 24, 2020 at 10:23 PM
Unknown said…
Well said. Happy new year.
January 3, 2021 at 1:06 AM
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