So, what sin are you carrying to 2013?

It’s New Year’s Eve! Ah, the day the world makes resolutions and promises to make a change to change the world! The day billion souls party hard, just to waste some of the money earned this year on drinks and junk. Woohoo, tomorrow new year!

It’s a different feeling all together. Such a multitude counting backward, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 all the way to 0000 hours! And finally, at that exotic moment, forgetting all about losing weight, and putting down egos. Or maybe donating money and saving a few lives. Just chuck those resolutions. The other billions minus one could take care of it right? It works this way every year, the human mind, I mean. We plan on changing ourselves, and then again resort to changing what’s around us.  

Friends, the world doesn’t change that way. A miracle doesn’t happen unless you put in for it. One fine day, that we call New Year’s first day, the world doesn’t take a flip or turn out to be inside out. Every day is a new day, and every second’s a new second. A year is simply a reminder of the number of those new seconds that you put to waste because you were waiting for something big like a year, since the previous year began. Again, you’re proving it, the big things count and the small ones aren’t taken care of. Get a grip!

The sinners won’t stop sinning in 2013, governments won’t stop looting out treasuries, the common man won’t stop being ground, the rapists won’t stop raping, the polluters won’t stop polluting, the idiots will go on to make the world a harder place to live in.

Hindu mythology was indeed right, the ‘Kalyug’ was to come, and it’s on its way. Religion today stands on one foot and we’re planning on making it topple over. If words that came out became reality, oh, so easily, then the world would be so unlike what we see! But, it’s the last day of 2012, and tomorrow’s the new beginning. We’ll take care of it then. Yes, we will. We will take care of it by forgetting about our flaws and continuing to make someone weep because of it.

Beginnings, beginnings, beginnings! How many more do we need? Or maybe we’ll just start afresh when our civilization ends, and then we can start off with evolution from Dryopithecus again! Maybe then we’ll have turn out to be some-what better?

Nothing changes; people remain the same, year after year. I’m not a pessimist, but I am an optimist that has had it! Tomorrow again, the poor will remain poor and slaves slaves! The Brahmins will sit on the thrones and the Shudras will fetch them their meals. If you really want it to be a ‘happy’ and ‘prosperous’ new year, forget about the number of packs you’re going to be having tonight. Forget about the riches, and just think about the talisman Gandhiji left for us.

“‘I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away.”

Again, I repeat, maybe it won’t even make much of a difference, and I’m sure hardly any of you would have even reached here, but live up to what you decide. Maybe it’s simple like mine. Just cleaning your bed after waking up. Do it. Because, at the verge at what we all live today, tomorrow might never come. The new dawn may change things for the worse or better.

Happy new year mates! A very happy new year! 

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