Resolutions

 Come January 1, and most all are headlong rushing in  to that much inhabited region, resolution making. Sure, resolutions/resolves may change from person to person, and yet there is a pattern to them. Could we say that this pattern reflects the current context? Inevitably it does. Currently, for instance, every body's top most resolution would be to stay away from the dreaded omicron.

As a society, too, I suppose, we need to  make certain resolutions. Not spitting publically, not to mention its worse version that makes every road and each lane in to a public urinal, could be our social, why, indeed national, resolution, right? Corona's and omicron's  may come and go, the Indians their tiresome 'public' habits will never overthrow, right?

That brings me to the seminal issue. Why is it that resolves/resolutions vanish in to thin air within a week? That is because our minds and our souls are not involved, I suppose. Resolves are made more as a mood enhancer, born of the moment and the feel. Emotions when they thus overtake our head, heart and soul, are flimsy and transient, right? A grave, tragic, and serious parallel to 'new year resolutions' would be the emotionally charged promises we make to the dead soul in the first flush of grief. As the sorrow drains, vain appear those resolves. Remember Hamlet grieving over his father? Yet he eternally dithers. Remember his hyperbolic "ten thousand brothers..." declaration? The best examples ever of graveyard grief induced resolves are these!

Never can such resolves re-solve anything. Come January 7 tops, and life is back to the usual, meaningless rut. Resolution making, hence, gets reduced to an empty ritual that may be gnawing at the roots of our very being. Let us give up that ritual! Remember instead Vivekananda's message to the youth and/or that famous quote, "dreams are those that never allow us to sleep", made popular by our erstwhile President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam? I suppose when such are our stern resolves, the entire  universe conjures  up ways to help us! Long live resolves!

Pratima@a resolution fulfilled/makes us better indeed!