There was much on my mind as the year which has now ended had begun. Apart from the various resolutions I had excitedly listed, there was much else planned. Time flew by, it moved so fast so whether I made it count is important because I can’t have it back. There is definitely quite an overload of eagerness for the coming New Year even though there is hardly an absolute renewal of life with a beginning of a year. Yet it is a very helpful demarcation which can tell one phase of your life from another. So as much as I am hopeful of a whole lot of better stuff to happen this coming year I also know that it won’t just transform the way I’ve lived until now. However it is a perfect occasion to unwind while rewinding the sequence of the days that have been spent.
Not a critical appraisal of each day but maybe a classification of days into different phases.
Phase 1
The takeoff
It was the year after tenth standard boards, the year which came with the label of ‘a break’ from extensive studying (That I had spent the previous year also not studying is of no consequence to the case in hand) But there were still promises, very sincere ones at that, and expectations that I’d stand out as a difference. Amidst this spectrum of hopes, I always managed to maintain the streak of practicality. I knew I wasn’t going to go all-out and kill it and heaven knows there isn’t a witness who’ll refute this. Average was the buzz word and I sustained that monotony.
Phase 2
Obsessions
I am actually clubbing together all of the things that awed me this year.
International baccalaureate- Just how there is the CBSE for the whole country this is the common board for international schools worldwide. How I regret not being enrolled in one of these boards is a sensitive subject, yet it’s by far the most wide reaching curriculum. If my view matters then in case you have a daughter, son, cousin, niece, nephew, neighbor, etc just about to enter school and if you/they are rich enough suggest them IB. It’ll make a world of a difference. As for me, my posterity will be given no choice.
Self actualization- this is basically about finding out things I am good at and would like to pursue.
The beach boys, the carpenters.
Jeremy Clarkson, Philip Greenspun- what’s common to both is their stupendous quotes. I don’t know if I can share a link here but anyway https://philip.greenspun.com/humor/analogies
https://inquisitr.com/2783/the-best-jeremy-clarkson-quotes/
https://timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6926731.ece
- Stephen Fry- Although QI is not something I’ve kept track of, I managed to develop real admiration for this man solely on the basis of this introduction he wrote to a book called ‘What Ho!’ which is a collection of Wodehouses’s greatest works; and it is absurdly brilliant. That coming from somebody who treats book introductions like they don’t exist is something.
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