You have less than two weeks to kiss goodbye to the wonders and shenanigans of 2010. I get the feeling that days and weeks are coming at us thick and fast, it was January just the other day and now its December already. You have been busy, running around like a headless chicken doing this or that and come end of year, you are wondering, “what the hell have I done all year?”. It’s a feeling that will haunt most of us. We live on the fast lane, literally. Between sunrise and sunset we manage to pack a zillion activities into one day, at least two trips to those small stressful cabins we call the workplace, spend the whole day exercising our fingers on computer keyboards, spend half of the time on the phone because the service providers are fighting over who handles more chit chat and gossip on their lines instead of the others. Then at the end of the day, what constructive thing have we done The time has come to take stock of the past 365 days. What did you achieve on personal growth, career front, emotional stability and financially? Did you become a better person? Have you learnt from your personal mistakes of yester years? Gauging your personal life should be easy if you have certain personal standards that you have set for yourself, instead of trying to achieve anything that others have achieved. Trying to be like everyone else is the boon of most of the world’s people. Life should have a meaning if you are clear in your mind about the direction your life should take. That direction should adjust itself once in a while according to circumstances but should remain in one general direction. It is that direction that you should take stock against while looking back to the past one year. In the materialistic world, we measure our success on what we gained materially and forget that with all the money in the world, life does not make so much sense. Today, the richest people in the world including 26 year old billionaire owner of Facebook, many people’s favourite play thing, are giving away most of their wealth to charity. So one of those important measures you should be taking stock of in your life is how much you have given away, not only financially but in other ways. Have you made another person’s life worthwhile? Have you supported a worthy cause? I wish you a thoughtful Sunday. kelviod@yahoo.com
