2017: The Bittersweet Year It Has Been
Ushering into a new year has never been this exhilarating and unnerving at the same time!
2017 has been the best and the worst year of my life. Best because it is the most self aware I’ve ever been. And worst because it is the most self aware I’ve ever been.
Yes, being self aware is a blessing and a curse. The lack of self-awareness helps maintain a happy equilibrium in life — many of us spend our younger years in this mode. But, for the critically analytical people like me, there’s no escape from the inevitable self-analysis and self-awareness.
2017 has definitely been a revealing year… and there’s no turning back now!
Surreptitiously flirted with unrestrained irrational indulgence.
Accidentally discovered unexplored and subdued passions.
Curiously conceded to the uncovered, unfamiliar passions.
Secretly traded the remnants of timid for confidence and cool.
Deliberately invoked the right brain to indulge in imagination.
Pleasantly unlocked the magic in fusing logic and intuition.
Conscientiously removed barriers to undeniable truths.
Inadvertently arrived at controversial, yet inescapable gospels.
Grudgingly accepted defeat to embrace hard uncomfortable realities.
Consciously picked apart the realities to find the hidden me.
Shockingly learned the prevalence of fair-weather friendships.
Shamelessly accepted my romance with unconditional friendships.
Relentlessly developed the mission that kept it all going.
Decidedly embraced the activist in me I hadn’t met before.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
The journey to self awareness is a lot of exploring the roads not taken. Of all the journeys so far, this one has been the hardest and the most rewarding!
If you must explore, take the road not taken. It really does make all the difference!
