HAPPY NEW YEAR

I am intrigued by the prospect of anyone making a New Year’s Resolution……Because I am not strong willed enough to stick to them, I never take the pain of making one! Anyways, I salute some brave hearts that make resolutions and promises and like an iron pillar, they stand by their decisions. This write up is meant for the lesser mortals like me who cannot be enticed into stick to certain resolutions (I am not saying all!). 

1. Buying clothes: This is something which cannot be undone by the XX types, me included! Even if the wardrobe is threatening to burst under the sheer pressure of the garments, some of which are yet to see the light of the day, we always seem to have nothing to wear. The husband’s clothes are usually pushed to a remote corner (unless he is lucky enough to have an almirah of his own), and each new dress brings a smile of contentment to our lips.

2. That extra five minutes of sleep, especially in the winters, after the alarm signals that it’s high time to be up and about! Uff! Those lovely five minutes, that inevitably swallows up at least half an hour of our precious time every morning, and we end up doing our daily chores like a maniac. The last thought that I have when I hit the sack every night is, “Tomorrow I promise to get up at the very first ring of the alarm”. But alas! That is not to be, and those omnipresent, omnipotent five minutes creep up every morning.

3. Controlling my diet, especially my sweet tooth, is something which I plan to spin control every year, but it ends up in no man’s land. I often get highly encouraged by the colleague in my workplace who lost ten kilos in 2 months by eating sprouts and grapes. But rather than being enticed to follow her footsteps, yours truly ends up gobbling the oily samosas of the cafeteria (that come for an attractive price of Rs 2/- per piece) and the kulfi faluda that does no wonders to my waistline (waistline what? ‘Waist’ is now a distant memory!).

4. Why only me? Some XY friends and acquaintances plan each year to quit the smoke and the spirit every year, declaring that the New Year eve will be the last day of their indulgence. And barely a week or so into their sojourn, the promises are long forgotten…Is that why some clever adman coined the tagline, “Men will be men…”?

Or is it that now I too can declare “Women will be women…”?

Resolution or not, here’s wishing you all a great 2013, with a prayer to the Superpowers (political, holy and mortal…not necessarily in that order) that may the coming days be free of unpleasantness and disasters…HAPPY NEW YEAR!!