This Week

This week has been quite an eventful one:

• I wrote a poem on that one topic on which I've wanted to write for a while now.

• I learnt that I can get back home, a hot Starbucks with whipped cream and the cream would not have melted.

• Hugo learnt the 'stay' command.

• I got a call from this really big firm, saying I could start interning there, the next day onward.

I like to evaluate, from time to time, where I stand in comparison to my desolate, ill days not very long ago. More often than not, the results of this evaluation leave me with a raging fit (which, I believe is an absolute entitlement of the once hospitalized). But then, there also come along weeks like this, with an assurance that the wait for a prettier horizon is not a long one.

Or, simply put, just like my darling Hugo, the happy days are about to learn the 'stay' command!

Here's to Change!

How's today different from yesterday? Well, since yesterday, the following things have changed: my dog's collar belt and a few relationship statuses on Facebook. The reason for this is the changed calender. 2014, the year of the water snake, does not hold much meaning for me personally. It's just another year that I have convinced myself I should sail through.

Losing weight as a resolution is a given, and I don't even consider it as being a resolution any more. It is as if I didn't have any resolution at all this year. I believe that there are only two types of people who don't have resolutions. The first type comprises those who are so comfortable and content in their present state of being, that they don't see the need for a change in their lifestyle. The second type of people are those who have given up on life as a whole. They believe that no change, big or small, is going to alter their current or eventual circumstance. Somewhere between the worlds of these two categories of humans is the kingdom that I call home.

I didn't do anything special today. I did, as always, one good, one bad, and one stupid thing. But during the course of the day, if there's one thing that I realized, it is that whether you like it or not, change is inevitable. You are going to meet new people, and they are going to teach you new things. New ways of living. You're going to make new decisions.

The point of this blog post, finally, is that no matter how aloof one is from the midnight celebrations, or how little they acknowledge the crisp new calender on their work desk, the truth is that in the coming 365 days, the world is going to change. And so are you.