Year End

I always embrace the year-end with mixed feelings. It means so many things to me. Both scary and welcoming at the same time. Scary because, there is a need to come to terms with the cold hard truth of what went wrong in the year (that I have not achieved some things I have set out to do in that year). Welcoming because there’s always hopes and dreams that I can carry with me as I enter a brand New Year. There’s always another chance at the things that I have always wanted to do and achieve. New Year gives me new hope. And I’m hopeful for many reasons.

While making mental notes of my New Year resolutions, I realized that as the years fly by, I’ve mellowed down and adopted certain qualities which, definitely come with age and maturity. 28 is a good age. It is a time in my life when I’ve discovered so many things about myself, a time when I’ve finally LEARNED from the many mistakes I’ve made, a time when I finally see some kind of “stability” in me and a time when I realized that I’ve really grown. I make “realistic” resolutions which I’ve also managed to keep this year - for some, I start to look at things from a long-term point of view and I don’t make decisions in haste. I’ve also learned to be much more optimistic than I used to be; adapting to truth. Cheers to that, and to many great revelations to come!

With just another 3 days to go before we bid farewell to 2006, I want to celebrate and remember some of the great things that I’ve experienced this year. Here’s a short list of what I can remember in no particular order:

- Learning salsa and completing the whole course up to Advance level
- Participated in Salsa performance, 3 times!
- Salsa Festival in Cherating
- Found a new job in a fitness and health company - something I’ve always had passion for
- I have a Blog- finally!
- Finally moved out of 1-04-4
- THE party on 24th December
- Another great year with my good friends (you know who you are!)
- Finally, I’ve learned to count my blessings despite the countless obstacles that stand in my way

Here's another toast to all that!