And who said everything must make sense?

There is strange comfort in drinking our favourite beverage from our favourite mug  every day. We set ourselves little routines or habits which we like to follow. Perhaps we try to find familiarity in an ever-changing world. There is variation even in the way we like our tea or coffee. I belong to the cadre of sticklers for particularity in my kind of variations. The newspaper we like to read, the toothpaste we use. Not surprisingly most of these that I have mentioned above relates to morning –  the waking hours, when the body and the mind are in the process of internalising that which is external.  

I have this tendency of getting attached to my surroundings. It is almost as if the inanimate things around me influence me, direct me towards a certain something. More often than not cryptic meanings of such and such things delude me. This is one of those. I can most certainly perceive a sense of direction even in baffling circumstances.

We, as human beings, are very prone to attachments. We get used to things. We simply adapt to changing circumstances and get used to it. We have our comfort zones and when we are forced out of the same despite our attachments to our comfort zones we instinctively take up the challenge and find for ourselves a new comfort zone – a new place to call home- to call our own. So, we move on – from dusk to dawn, from newspaper to e-newspaper, from one comfort-zone to another, from 2014 to 2015.

As we bid goodbye to 2014, let us thank it for all that it had to offer and hope 2015 will bring fresh promises as well as clear 2014’s logjam(both at the Parliament and those in our minds). Let us hope that the year we welcome now with open arms be so great so as to expand our embrace beyond what we think is possible.

Best.
Anurupa.

December 31, 2014