Happy 2010

Its an utterly depressing state when you start deteriorating and more depressing it is when you let it happen. I've let it happen for sometime now but have had enough. Being a business journalist sure can have its cons. For one, you get so badly stuck with the jargon that everything seems to be a market, you analyse everybody's strategies, growth prospects, investments and expansion plans! I have been so stuck with this same thing that even after realising my passion for blogging needed fuel, it was let to exhaust in the back burner.
Hence, besides others, my 2010 resolution is to blog diligently. Write, create and rhyme once again and what best to start off with than to look back in the decade gone by.

It was a decade but today it seems like a lifetime in itself and what is life worth if nothing is learned from it?

I've learnt...

• grades aren't everything. But you still need them
• that repeating mistakes though best avoided, isn't always bad. They might give you a different experience everytime
• people don't change. They evolve... for better or worse
• sometimes your best friend is your worst enemy
• you must indulge in sinful desserts
  
• its great to be impulsive
• college is the best phase of your life
• it is important to bunk classes
• music is the best soul soother
• I'd love to travel to discover new people than new places
• first times have a charm that no other time would have
• getting your first salary is a moment of sheer pride
• happiness is spending your hard earned money on your parents and little sister and not saving them in a bank account
  
• it is a great thing to be confused
• to love and let go
• nothing and no one for which/who you would have to lie to your parents is ever worth the lie or to be a part of your life
• chirping birds, sunshine and rains could sometimes give you more happiness than anything
• good things always happen to bad people
• it is okay to start small in life. The scope of growth then, is much bigger
• one of my fondest memories of 'me-time' was to ride the bicycle early morning on my way to school
• you might have a million loved ones around you but you still live and die alone
• your gut instinct is the only thing that doesn't let you down
  
• not everyone you might meet through the virtual world is fake, but most are!
• its important to follow your passions. Its the best way to make yourself feel alive again

After all these, seems like it was quite an eventful decade. Phew!
The new decade will come with its bunch of surprises, learnings and excitement and after a crazy NYE with some of the most cherished people in my life, The Gibberians, I say... 2010? Bring it on!