A CHILL PILL FOR 2025

 



“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.

The second-best time is now.”

Chinese Proverb

 

It’s 8.50 in the night… It’s the New-year eve. The greetings have already started pouring in. “A Happy and Prosperous New year”… Yes, this is the familiar greeting. How many near and dear ones have sent it to me, and to how many near and dear ones I have sent the same!

“Wishing you all a very Happy and prosperous New Year”… Here is one more time…

As I am about to step into 2025, a few hours from now, I become strikingly aware of one thing I badly want to do: to take a chill Pill… to calm down, to relax, not to be too anxious, fearful or angry… in the New Year…

Of late, I was finding myself wanting in this area… Excessive irritation, annoyance, impatience and anxiety had quietly entered from the backdoor and made me a lot gloomy… Yes, yes, that’s despite my relentless writing on positive things…

When has one ceased to convert himself or herself into completely positive?

Well, I don’t think, humans can stay permanently cheerful and positive… We slip, now and then, into negative spells… At least, I do…

Mercifully, when wisdom prevails, I try to make a comeback.





Oprah Winfrey says, “Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.”  

True. A New Year, I strongly feel today, is another chance to ‘get it right’… ‘Set it right’…

How else can we expect 2025 to be different from 2024?

I need to take the chill pill, that’s for sure… I need to calm down, relax… Let go and let God in… Expect things and people to ‘be’… And, to do that, the time is now…

“A year from now, you may wish you had started today,” says  Karen Lamb…

2025 will bring forth its own pleasant and unpleasant offerings for each one of us… People around us shall continue to behave the way they always did… I won’t be able to change such things even a bit…

But, the more calmness comes to settle in my heart, the more perfection I will be able to experience in all the imperfection around me…

So, let me grab the chill pill – 2025…

All will be well even when nothing may seem well…





A Happy New Year to all…

“Chill”…

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

Pic’s: 1. Pixabay 2. www.vintagetreecare.com

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Comments

Anonymous said…
Change within
January 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Anonymous said…
Your WORDS HEAL THE SOULS OF MANY......
January 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ashish Srivastava said…
I shall take a chill pill too….in a hope, may be this year isn’t as mundane as few earlier had been!😀
January 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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