Here Comes‘2025’ !

The three resounding words ‘Happy New Year’ echo through our excited voices and messages everywhere as we cheerfully ring out the Old 2024 and usher in New2025 !As if a season of fresh optimism starts with boundless hope, New Year’s is the perfect time to reflect on the year gone by. It’s a chance to motivate yourself, uplift others, set new goals and embrace exciting opportunities ahead.

Thinkers and writers often raise the question, is this year-changing time the beginning of a new chapter, a new verse, or just the same old story? We should decide, it’s our life and the choice is ours.We all get the exact same 365 days but the only difference is what we do with them. Sure, if you don’t like something, change it and if you can’t change it, change your attitude. And there are enough instances to show that you are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

For my septuagenarian contemporaries, what can we look forward to this year ?The four ‘H’ factors should be the focus of our lives, Health, Happiness, Harmony & Hope. We all make resolutions about diet, yogaand exercise for our physicalwell being that we often forget specially on those frequent celebratory occasions.It’s to each his own. ‘Harmony’ and ‘happiness’sound so good on paper but are elusive in adodgy world of ideological differences, inflated egos andrelationshipissues.

You realize there is much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.Look beyond themundane, broaden your horizons, empathise with others, condonetheir lapses that seemedgenuine, make peace with big aspirations, own up to your faults.Revel in company of old friends,visit new places, let serene music lift up your spirits.  Oprah Winfrey says“Cheers to theNew Year and another chance for us to get it right.”