New Year Resolutions, Talks, Trees And Runs!

Hey Srama, nice narration. Hope you have recovered from your fall. I left making new year resolutions years ago. Probably, I made a resolution to not make resolutions and looks like I have kept it for years. This year though with DH, we plan to clean the house - getting rid of things that we thought we will use someday. It started with going to the Goodwill store for donating them before the last year ended to get a tax deduction and has continued in this year. Hope it continues for a while, a lot has been accumulated over the years.

 

Dear Sabitha,

Nice to read a snippet from you at the beginning of the year. I hope you feel better now after you were dragged down the hill by Toby. I am still imagining Toby as a little one and apparently had the power to drag you down the hill. I hope you feel better.

Of all the resolutions I have heard, "not to pay fine to the library" is the funniest. If I were to make a similar resolution at my end, I had to do a resolution to collect all my books I give away to the friends. I buy all the books I like, talk about it passionately with the friends and give it to them to read when they ask for it. Invariably, most of them never return the book. Now, I am becoming smarter by buying two books when I like something, one for circulation and one for my library.

If I were in your shoes, my first two resolutions would have been, "Avoid falling" and "Speak louder". Frankly, speaking with low voice attracts more attention from everyone than shouting. Even intensity of talking to self increases automatically when our aspiration/desperation is high.

Regarding becoming like a tree, apart from all those wonderful traits we generally know about the trees, recently I heard that they help the roots of a dead tree stay alive for some strange reason. They talk to each other (apart from talking to Sabitha) and their support system is far superior to the humans. There are so much to learn from the plants, insects and animals and more they publish their life, the better we become.

Welcome back to IL in the year 2017. My resolution this year is to practice silence as much as possible, focus more on things that matter the most and let all other things go, before June 2017 find a new interesting thing that I could do on the side now which I can do full time after retirement and lastly strengthen the bond with the family and friends.

Viswa

 

How I wish just like you said, my boy was only lost and was to be found later. Unfortunately that's not the case Sabitha he passed away last Thursday. We had a Labrador (Scooby ) and he was 12 yrs old who lived with my parents, he breathed his last in the hospital. I'm feeling miserable since I could not say goodbye in person, I was away and that hurts like hell. I miss him so very much, he was a month old when dad got him and I was in college then.

 

Oh @Srama. How happy to read your post. Happy new year to you and yours. You know what, I think about being a tree quite often. Many times I get satisfied with rendering my services unconditionally to the family. But, many times I get the feeling why I have to be the only person on service. I am working on it.
No new year resolutions for me as I have pending million resolutions to be implemented. Take care
Vani

 

Happy New Year Sabitha..glad to know u are doing well after the fall!