Monday musings 192: For a new voice
"For
last year's words belong to last year's language,
And next
year's words await another voice"
- T. S Eliot
Another
year leaked from the bucket of life. Those who shall attempt some kind of
reflection, will be faced with the dilemma of seeing the year gone as either
half filled or half empty. Some will find that avoiding such a reflection might
be a better idea.
The turn
of the tide could have either strengthened our belief that we controlled the
outcomes or led us to believe that much as we work to a plan, the future has a
mind of its own. The human heart would discover that we might have some degree
of control on what we pursue and how we do it, but we may not have a similar
degree of control over how we feel at the end of the journey. We might be
surprised by a sense of loss in victory or a sense of contentment in
loss.
I see
multiple responses to a year gone by. Some treat this as a non-event believing
that it is just a number. Some use this as a unit of time and compare it with
what they set out to do and achieve and hence there is a assessment for the
year - goals achieved, money made, success achieved, holidays taken, so on and
so forth.
At the
end it is less about how good or bad the year was but how good or bad were we
during the year. How good were we in utilizing the opportunity of the last year
'to make a dent in the universe'? I have also grown to believe that nothing
kills human beings faster than regret. How much more the year could have been
packed with! How much more was the possibility of being happy and puny were our
preoccupations!
There is
infinite possibility to give voice to another language in 2014. I pray for courage
to claim that language from our deepest fears. The language of possibilities,
the language of listening to intuition, the language of instinct, the language
of meaning in work. The only thing that separates us from what we know is right
and what we must do is courage. May we have that in abundance the New Year.
May we
have another language and another voice – that of our own.
Guru
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