Like every wanna-be 'blogger', I disappeared. I wouldn't come up with excuses about being terribly busy. I was merely getting my masters degree, and dealing with changes in my life; what some would call 'growing up'. Oh, and I forgot to write.
I find myself on New Year's eve writing this *insert flashback illusion picture* - takes me back to New Year's eves I spent from the ages 10-17 writing about the year that had gone by. Ages 18-22, I gave in to peer pressure, and succumbed to crowded parties, and started the new year waking up late. This year is different. I am going to be on a flight back home - India.
Anyway, getting back to this post, I wanted to follow up on the changes I dealt with over the past 1.5 years. Studying in the United States has made me certain about what I already thought I knew - that Indian education system at the undergraduate level ought to be a lot better. The way I learnt to solve problems has made me a much better scholar in academia as well as life. I feel like I approach the little things in life with confidence. I seem to have a plan as well as a fall-back option for every thing in life (always did, but it's a lot more streamlined now). I'm a lot more patient while dealing with new people. Though I've always been a very opinionated person, I find myself being more welcoming to other opinions. I can say without a doubt that I steer from drama, and all the teenage bullshit that goes with it. I stay away from people who are judgmental; rather try very hard not to be rude to people who comment without a valid reason (yes I decide which reasons are valid). I do not know if it's the new environment that has made me more adaptable, or if it's just me growing up.
I've always believed New Year's eve is overrated. It is a day where the service industries charge customers obscenely high prices, and get away with it. It is a day people are forced to make resolutions they know they'll never keep. Kids drink too much, drive too fast, go a little too crazy; it's a mad mad mad world tonight. Did I mention I live in New York ? Yeah, the place where the ball drops at midnight, and there are thousands of people gathered at Times Square, freezing their asses off. Now you can imagine why I'm not out. On the bright side (I believe most terrible things have a bright side), I think this day is a wonderful opportunity for you and I to look back on the past year, and forget all the bad things that happened to us, learn to forgive, learn to love, and learn to hope and just believe a little more - however hard it may be to do so. In my case, I take this day to remind myself to relax a little bit, let my hair down once in a while, and take chances; I hardly ever do. You know what annoys me so much about this day? It's only today that I say these things. It's probably only tonight. THAT annoys me.
Carpe Diem man! Every day - seize it! You and me both.
Maybe someday, I'll give in to this madness. Maybe 2016 will begin with watching the ball drop on Times Square. What do I got to lose other than my sanity after all?
I find myself on New Year's eve writing this *insert flashback illusion picture* - takes me back to New Year's eves I spent from the ages 10-17 writing about the year that had gone by. Ages 18-22, I gave in to peer pressure, and succumbed to crowded parties, and started the new year waking up late. This year is different. I am going to be on a flight back home - India.
Anyway, getting back to this post, I wanted to follow up on the changes I dealt with over the past 1.5 years. Studying in the United States has made me certain about what I already thought I knew - that Indian education system at the undergraduate level ought to be a lot better. The way I learnt to solve problems has made me a much better scholar in academia as well as life. I feel like I approach the little things in life with confidence. I seem to have a plan as well as a fall-back option for every thing in life (always did, but it's a lot more streamlined now). I'm a lot more patient while dealing with new people. Though I've always been a very opinionated person, I find myself being more welcoming to other opinions. I can say without a doubt that I steer from drama, and all the teenage bullshit that goes with it. I stay away from people who are judgmental; rather try very hard not to be rude to people who comment without a valid reason (yes I decide which reasons are valid). I do not know if it's the new environment that has made me more adaptable, or if it's just me growing up.
I've always believed New Year's eve is overrated. It is a day where the service industries charge customers obscenely high prices, and get away with it. It is a day people are forced to make resolutions they know they'll never keep. Kids drink too much, drive too fast, go a little too crazy; it's a mad mad mad world tonight. Did I mention I live in New York ? Yeah, the place where the ball drops at midnight, and there are thousands of people gathered at Times Square, freezing their asses off. Now you can imagine why I'm not out. On the bright side (I believe most terrible things have a bright side), I think this day is a wonderful opportunity for you and I to look back on the past year, and forget all the bad things that happened to us, learn to forgive, learn to love, and learn to hope and just believe a little more - however hard it may be to do so. In my case, I take this day to remind myself to relax a little bit, let my hair down once in a while, and take chances; I hardly ever do. You know what annoys me so much about this day? It's only today that I say these things. It's probably only tonight. THAT annoys me.
Carpe Diem man! Every day - seize it! You and me both.
Maybe someday, I'll give in to this madness. Maybe 2016 will begin with watching the ball drop on Times Square. What do I got to lose other than my sanity after all?
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