In the December’23 Samvada Editors meet it was decided to add an article on resolutions in the New year as requested by Shilpa Chandra the coordinator. So here’s a gist of all that the editors are pledging in 2024.
Kiren Babal: Being Well Dressed! The biggest confidence one gets is when he/she is dressed properly.
December being my birth month the cold winds seem like caressing me. I love to cover myself nicely to feel the warmth & snug feeling against the winter chill. A Friend asked me “Hey,you’ve gone grey and are looking so good.” With a banter I replied,” To maintain the gray hair, it is a must to dress up well.” That is exactly my resolution for the year 2024. Being well dressed infuses an unsaid confidence with a feel good factor. As an age-old maxim goes,” Take care of your clothes; It will enhance your personality even more!”
Aditi Chopra: Start afresh! My new year resolution is that I will not hold on to any baggage from the past. Clean my past and start afresh. Make serious efforts to develop healthy habits and make it part and parcel of my life. I will work with my residents for the betterment of my community. Always in service to mankind.
Sukeshini Anand: Resolution Galore! 1 : My first resolution is to remain humane with humanity
Second is to enjoy life and the last one is that ai am not going to make any other resolution because “ na umr hai bigadne ki nah hi sudharne ka scope”!
Shilpa Chandra: To create a “Me” time! In the daily race of getting things done, we tend to leave ourselves and our needs behind, hoping to do it at a later stage when we are free. That time never comes. It has to be made. So from now on I will do all the things that I have been putting off and get back to my hobbies. I will make my health a priority. No longer putting myself last.
Sukeshini Anand: Resolution Galore! I requested Shilpa Chandra to put my resolution at the end of the article since I had something interesting in mind to share which is that I am not going to make any other resolution because “ na umr hai bigadne ki nah hi sudharne ka scope”!
However to appease Shilpa I scratched on paper a couple of thoughts which were uppermost in my mind. When we move around we see so-called civilized crowds misbehaving with waiters in hotels just to throw the weight around. Similar behavior I have seen in hospitals with nurses, insulting them to such an extent that they end up crying. So my principal in life should be to be humane to humanity.
I hope I live up to my promise. There is another promise which I want to make with myself that is to enjoy life in totality. There are ups and downs in life, so why not sleep over the dark phase of life. I am reminded of a poem which I read as a student “For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever”… from the poem The River. So that is how I want to be and this is the second principle to which I want to adhere.
