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Happy New Year “For last year's words belong to last year's language  And next year's words await another voice.”                                                        ―  T.S. Eliot ( Four Quartets ) Tonight, we come together to celebrate the curtain call of another year. A year that passed by in the blink of an eye, but left a deep impact on our lives. A year full of new beginnings, new endings, new experiences to learn from- to accept and incorporate into our lives. According to Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson, there is a beautiful reason to why the new year is to be a happy one. He says, “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,  Whispering ‘it will be happier’...” I find his words to be particularly true, simply because I hold great faith that the idea of a new tomorrow can instill a considerable amount of hope in a person. One is given the opportunity to start over, on the first blank page of a completely blank book. Somewhere, the idea of leavi

Be True To Yourself. “This above all: To thine own self be true…” - William Shakespeare We are the future, what is to become. We are everyone’s hope, the forthcoming carriers of the world. We are expected to be mentally competent, physically fit and emotionally strong. We must be able to cope with the world, show our true potential and push the limit to and then beyond the sky. But how are we supposed to triumph over these expectations, if we are unaware of our own aptitude? We face a very different world, today. Way different than what it was in Shakespearean times. Yet his words pertain to us just as aptly. In a world so demanding, so harsh, so vigorous, we need something to ground us, to make sense of our being. We need to confide, have faith and know our boundaries and limits. And for that… Well, we must be true to our owneth self. What is the self? It is perceived to be our inner mirror. Something that reflects our every deed. It is our conscience, pricking us when

The Child In You “A grownup is a child with layers on…”                                          - Woody Harrelson   We all adore children, don’t we? We marvel at their curiosity, their innocence, and their blissful oblivion to worldly matters. We try to protect them from the ‘cold and harsh’ world outside, right up to the time we think they may be ready to bear the brunt of it. We wish they could remain children forever, never grow up, and never complicate their lives… Being midway through my teens myself, I do find that I miss my childhood. Yes, for many, fifteen is still being a child, but I’d say fifteen is the new eighteen! Fifteen year-olds today have way too many responsibilities; we have seen way too much of the ‘cold, harsh’ world to remain children anymore. We have increasing competition to deal with, career choices to make early on, establish who our ‘self’ is, and live our childhood in a blink. Most of the time, we just end up wishing we had a little more ti

SPEAK YOUR MIND "Speak your mind... Even if your voice shakes..."                                                   -Maggie Kuhn        Our race, the human race, has been bestowed with a gift... A gift of the ability to form an opinion. It's a beautiful gift, because it allows us to have an insight about a particular concept or topic. Because we have the power to have an opinion, we can change perceptions, we can ease our lives by changing perception. And voicing one's opinion makes him stronger, more confident to face a world that is changing at rapid pace, becoming more and more tight, more competitive, and yet more accepting, and rather happening. I happened to come across a beautiful song, apt for this particular piece: " Say what you need to say Say what you need to say Have no fear for giving in Have no fear for giving over You better know that in the end It's better to say too much Than to never to say what you need to say again...”