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Introspection, resolution and all that jazz
POORNIMA K.N
Time-out: Imagine the wonders what a little introspection this New Year could do to our personal, professional and social lives.
BIFT: I happened to be checking the dictionary for a new word today, when suddenly I stumbled upon the word ‘RESOLUTION’. It reminded me of my school days when my mom would forcibly send me on a guilt trip every year end. She would want me to introspect and conclude whether I was a good human being in the past one year, and whether I had fully realised my faults and most importantly she would goad me to make New Year resolutions!
Back then I didn’t even know the meaning of the words introspect and resolution but I had sensed what my mom expected of me and cleverly got away by making a couple of obvious resolutions. My list usually comprised of the stereo typed -- I will not lie any more, I will wake up early and exercise, I will concentrate on my studies, I will stop watching TV for long hours and blah-blah. As expectedly these resolutions were seldom followed beyond the first day or at most the first week of the New Year.
Now that I am in my final year of college and am free from this entire sticky business of making and keeping resolutions and the mandatory guilt trips, I feel a lot relieved.
It is the same feeling that I now get when I see students appearing for competitive exams. It is a feeling of immense relief, that our chance to experience it is over it is now somebody else’s turn and someone else’s pain to experience the same roller coaster ride of anxiety and anticipation.
Today, I know the meanings of both introspect and retrospect and have realised that they are not synonyms, and at this point of time when we are about to bid adieu to one year and are ushering in another one, I feel compelled to look back and reminisce.
It has almost been a full year of events and non -events, both planned and unplanned.
And did I grow as an individual the past year?I am not quite sure.
But do I want to improve? I definitely do! I asked myself, “Should I make resolutions?” I decided that I would. But the hitch with resolutions is the guilt roller coaster that one has to experience for not keeping the resolutions.
Then I pondered for some time over abstaining from resolutions. I also thought of the resolutions that I should be making, the usual stereotyped waking up early in the morning, being more punctual and the likes were the first ones that wafted through my mind.
Then a novel thought debuted in my musings, I realised why we find it difficult to keep resolutions. It is because we start doing a lot of things but never bother to do a follow up and most importantly we never complete them. So when we finish everything that we start there would be no prospects of the dreadful guilt trips.
Dear friends I think its time that we as a generation start introspecting and finally make the coveted resolution to finish everything that we start.
Imagine the wonders it could do to our personal, professional and social lives. We would stop procrastinating things and be able to lead more satisfactory lives.
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