It’s a merry age to live in today, while I love making resolutions, making ones on the 1st of Jan is more special, the beginning of a new year, a brand new journal to fill, and all the joy that novelty entails is absolutely endearing. While on an Insta binge, my feed is filled with manifestations, how to cajole the universe into giving you what you want, and the law of attraction! This is also where Gabby Bernstein a manifestation guru proclaims that she (and you) should not believe in resolutions since they allude that something needs fixing, instead, manifestation could be the rhyme of the day, for you are bringing in positive feelings, and emotions or happenings into your life, the visualization board is a popular item these days and following in the steps of Sarah Sham, the quite affluent Interior Designer I made one too, talk about being influenced, but at the end of the year, I found that life surprised me in better ways that what I could imagine! My photos play host to even more amazing things than the images that I put on my vision board. That left me with a wonderful feeling, though I did put together a vision board for this year, again am sure to be left spellbound!
However I managed to watch a very thoughtful movie on the first day of the year, (talk about the universe nudging me in a certain direction!) called Kho Gaye Hum Kahan, the movie wasn’t exactly to my liking but the ending certainly was. At the end of the movie, Akhtar, whose lens on social commentary is impeccable, literally implores us to take note of a few resolutions that will do most of us much good. She is the outer conscience or rather the Jimmy Cricket we all need to have sitting on our shoulders. While her other movies may have had us jumping on cruises as a family or booming the Spanish tourism to stellar heights this one could just be having us book flights into ourselves. That’s possibly the only journey we all need, though may not want to be making. After showing us the tumultuous lives of today’s times she gives a blueprint or resolutions that resonated with me quite well enough to employ as my own.
One is to put down that phone, that we are all lost into and look at life in the eye. Two is to keep it real and keep it simple, for only if you connect with yourself others can connect with you. Three is to stop the comparisons, the only person better than you in the moment is you in the future. Four is to be grateful, for what you have and also for what you dont have, perhaps it is for the better! And finally to find your tribe, for if you have real, true friends then you wouldn’t need followers! Don’t these make so much sense, there is power in authenticity, may we have more of it, may we be it.
Take a note, maybe you’d want them on your list too!
Vedasri Siddamsetty 