A Good Year, This

Its New Years already.
Funny how time flies by so quickly when you are having a good time.

Yes, 2008 has been a wonderful year for me. Learned so many lessons. Unlike 2007, these lessons weren't those I could add in my CV; but lessons non the less.

I shall always remember 2008 as the year in which I came to be a part of a relationship for the first time ever.
I was also part of a break-up for the first time.
I came to value friendship like never before. I can't believe I used to take human beings for granted the way I did before things changed my views.
2008 will, for me, be the year Yashada had a paradigm shift, the year Yashada grew up.

As I write this, I have suddenly realized I'm happy!
I'm happy to let go of another year and venture into a new one :)

I Am Here

She strolled in the woods just as she always did. But things were different now. She had let go of a burden and she felt light from within. Just as she was walking freely in those woods, she noticed hope fluttering in the air, like a butterfly fresh out of its cocoon. She wondered if she was seeing things. Was it substantial, this hope? Or was it just another mirror of past episodes? That thought filled her with dread. Dare she walk down that path of Not-Knowing once more, and risk it all again?

Cherry on Top

I feel sorry in saying this, but, yes I was prepared for the cake and the icing. R R Patil calling it a ‘small incident’, Shivraj Patil’s usual incompetency to deal with the situation, reporters asking the families of the deceased “how are they feeling right now? (What sort of a question is that??...and so on.
But the cherry on top came when Vilasrao Deshmukh went to the Taj with his actor son and Ram Gopal Verma. That was the height of insensitivity a leader, no other than the Chief Minister of this very state could exhibit. I am speechless after knowing this. And I cry in despair, is all lost? Are we doomed? Is there no hope when there is such a sick, insensitive leadership that we have elected ourselves?