It's finally curtains for 2013... In a rather positive and optimistic tone I'd go ahead and declare it one of the more happily eventful year of my life. :-)
While memory can stretch really far into the past, but those that make me think of if's and but's and "missed and realized" opportunities; only occur to be appearing from sometime in early 2009. Beyond which little seemed to be in my control. Life brought me to where ever I was when I had turned 21. Only then did I take charge of where I wanted it to go from there.
2009 saw me graduate to become an Engineer. Saw me take some decisions in personal and professional life that were gonna change the course of both into a great abyss of uncertainty. Pursuing a masters from an institute I probably had not heard of when I began my journey towards it. Some miscalculated and misjudged decisions in the personal life that changed everything within me and ended all certainty and uncertainty in 2010.
2010 began with me having made peace with the ambiguity that existed in the end of 2009. And by the time 2010 ended, a butterfly had become of the caterpillar. Fell in love with a new city, fell out of love with a person, fell from the stairs, fell head over heels, two jobs fell in my lap. 2010 made me realize that the world is full of possibilities. And made me determined to give life a direction and not mere fall in line of the flow.
2011 was when I became an MBA, traveled abroad for the first time, saw money in my hands the kind I had never imagined. :-) It was an amazing year, which strengthened the belief that it was all possible.
2012 would be the year I dedicate to Chennai... :-) Lovely city. Lovely music on the radio... Rather impressive infrastructure. If only the weather and the people were a little more welcoming. A combination of events, people and places put together threw in a level of maturity in me that probably no year in the past had been able to achieve. It felt like getting kicked in the nuts to realize the pain that my then pseudo reality held. Was glad to be out of it... There was also somewhere in there that the decision to take firm control of my personal life was taken. (Results culminated or began to culminate only an year later.)
2013 again began on a rather uncertain note with me having no idea where "exactly" I was headed. Little better than the past but still not as certain as I would have liked. But slowly and steadily I seem to be figuring it out. Life. The job seems to be throwing newer challenges my way, every day. And I couldn't be complaining one bit. :-) The man got his own "big black shiny ride" and keeps falling in love with it every day... :-) And last but definitely not the least a fresh breeze of air walked into my life right in the middle of 2013. She's transformed the 2nd half of this relatively nondescript movie into this pot boiler full of romance, action and drama. Surprising me with stupid things. Sometimes with a bunch of flowers and sometimes with herself! :-D Never have I felt so safe and secured and loved and taken care of ever in my life. Never has someone's presence made me feel blessed as much. Happiness and hope sprinkled all around this cookie that's getting baked... :-) Oh it smells out of the world. Mmmmmmm... But wait, it's only getting better. :-) :-) :-)
Makes me think, if I have to replicate one year again in my life; things suitably magnified (to accommodate inflation etc :-D) may be I want something that happened 2013 all over again. Guess it only means that I only remember all the nice things that have happened over the last 12 months... or the nice things far outweigh the things I don't wanna remember.
On this note, I welcome 2014 and everything it holds. May we be endowed with lots and lots of occasions to celebrate and enough strength to confront the challenges. God bless ya'll. A very happy new year... :-)
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