To Cliches, and to a brand new 2k19 !!

Why are you so obsessed with love they say,
write something about us..

And it is then I realised,
I have given so much of mind space to what isn't,
or to what could be,
that I haven't really taken time to appreciate what I have...

Yes, this is one of those cliched, over gratitudy post,
But for somethings,
like your proposals, and promises of getting old together,
like gifting your first salary to your parents, and expressions of thanks,
cliches are good... So, here I go,

There are so many things we take for granted,
Year ends, and our big falls remind us of them..
Right from good education, good food,
To an understanding that comes with the education,
To the health that comes with good food....
From the capability & the zeal to travel,
To the richness that one commands after the travel...
From good people around you,
To realising that you have come a long way due to the company you have kept...
From having the option to break the societal norms,
To taking a conscious call of not casually calling someone's taste "gay", and not announcing that "I don't judge" or using sexist slurs of "crying or throwing like a girl"

There are so many things we take for granted...
But,
Despite the unfairness of it all, and everything,
the feeling of only imagination being a limit, is also a luxury,
the ones who have just assume, and the ones who don't, never realise..

There are so many things we take for granted...
Yet, sometimes it feels like there are so many things in life that we can't control...

This year, taught me that it's important to remember the things we can...
Like forgiveness, second chances, and fresh starts...
You don't have to be anything to anyone, you just have to be everything to you...
It is very easy to hear these words, and agree, and forget,
unless you feel it. You actually see yourself living life on your own terms...
It doesn't matter if you are single, it doesn't matter if you are bored of your job,
It doesn't matter if life's throwing you any of those 146 things that it has listed under "issues"

Tell yourself, it is a consequence of the decisions you made...

Because the one thing that turns the world from a lonely place into a beautiful one, is.... Love? No.. It's Hope...

Because, remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies... Happy New Year Folks :)