It is that time of the year!!!!

31st of December – the last day of every year – the day that is filled with a lot of emotions – rejoice, happiness, anticipation, surprises, expectations, hope – is here again. However, this year is indeed a different one for multitude of reasons. 2020 has been a year of adversity – a year deemed to be full of hardship and difficulty. However, as goes the saying ‘Adversity brings out the best in someone’, this year also gave us opportunities to bring out the best in us.

The best could be a personal best or a collective best. At different times this year, we would have put up our smiling faces, which is something to be really happy about. In spite of the difficult times, we had moments to feel happy about. For a lot of people, this year would be the maximum they had to spend with families staying together. For some, this year would have given new relationships, new friends, new families to cherish about. For some, this year would have given new activities – not always possible in a fast-paced life. This year, though one of the difficult ones which we have seen in our lifetime so far, did indeed give moments to adore and treasure.

There have been various factors that has made us pause our journey, but it is necessary to accept that the stoppage was not something we could have done by acting differently. A lot of this was due to the external events and there was nothing we as a person could have acted differently. If we look back at this year and we see a lot of gloomy days, it is also the same year that has given a lot of sunny days. At this moment, instead of the wearing the regret hat we can take the acceptance hat.

There are a lot of tough years in the history of humankind – lots and lots of cataclysmic events, numerous dark days – have come and gone. During all these tough times, there has been one thing that has helped us stay foot and overcome it – humanity. At the end of all these dark periods, the compassion and fellow feeling of people has always helped the human race to stand up and progress again. This year was not a different one from any of the events. We faced a lot of troubles but at each moment we had some hand – either known or a completed unknown hand – to lift us back. This is the strongest message which we all should be proud of. The aid could be of any magnitude, but if we had lend ourselves to even one such instance this year, we need to pat our backs – we have definitely helped someone in the hardest of the times that we know. There has been a lot of differences – numerous reasons to stand divided – but what we have shown this year is, to move forward it would definitely have to be hand-in-hand with everyone.

Be it a bad year personally or collectively, the year has passed – the clock is ticking towards a new day – the months are back to the start – a new year has started. December 31, 2019 had a lot of positive emotions and December 31, 2020 in fact asks for lot more positive emotions. At this point, lets try to let the negatives back with the past year and welcome the new year with lots and lots of warmth and open hands.

I wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year 2021 and hope this new year brings a lot of cheers to everyone.