2012 - Reviewed and Revisited

It’s been a long-drawn battle with time, and I finally won. A crappy year ends and a hopeful, new one begins. There were so many instances in 2012 when I thought that things couldn’t get worse, and each time I was proven wrong. I have laughed, cried, fought, been cheated, cheated myself, been lied to, lied myself and finally, searched for the eternal peace which has seemed just barely out of reach for so long. The past year has had occasions of absolute bliss and considerable misery for me, and I will very glad to end this year on a good note, with friends, lovely strangers and a lot of well-earned chocolates.

2012 began for me on a fairly good note, with a job offer at a promising firm. Just a couple of months down the line, I realized my mistake and it was too late to rectify it. The company turned out to be a nightmarish hell-hole managed by lesser mortals and run by an insect. After being sucked dry, my will to go forth and survive took over and I quit the garage. Things got really interesting after that, and I decided to go for my MBA in Germany.

On the personal front, things couldn’t get stranger than they did in 2011. I had a lot of illusions shattered this year when the man who claimed was in love with me turned out to be nothing more than that – an illusion. I made a few bad decisions. I realized that money plays a vital role in deciding how long you can love someone. So, on a fateful day this year, I lost someone very close to me and made me wonder if he ever was capable of loving someone.

Just when I thought I’d give up hope on 2012 being a good year, I rediscovered what it was to fall in love with someone totally unexpected. A fresh feeling of puppy love, evolving into lust and desire and at this point of time, to a steady state of mutual understanding, trust and faith, made me a believer again. Here’s a warm bear hug to the one I’m in love.

If I were to send one message to 2012 and all its incidents and people, all it’s merry and misery, it would be this: Good riddance to bad rubbish. I can’t wait to enter the New Year. I’m ever the optimist, cautiously pessimistic and according to my friends, annoyingly pragmatic.

I also had some social life which improvised the levels of insanity year by year in me. This time, those insane trends fuelled up my craziness.

 Excessive 9gagging: Over the past year, 9gag has become a trend statement of sorts with all kinds of memes being made popular by a very large percentage of the world’s population. Being a 9gagger has become a matter of pride for some and a matter of principle for others. Excessive 9gagging has shown to result in involuntary drooling, day dreaming during work.  I think Pinterest is also one of such kinds of different league.

Facebook Marriages: More and more people are getting ‘married’ on Facebook these days. In 2012, there were 119 recorded marriages on the social networking site in my list. If you like someone very much and want to get married to that person but can’t afford a wedding, then the trend smith recommends a Facebook marriage – change your relationship status to ‘Married’ and indicate the person you want to marry. Once that other person (hopefully your better half) has reciprocated this action, your statuses will be updated for the whole world to see. Am damn serious, this actually happened… well…honestly with me only.Now that it is a trend, hunt is easier on FB than on Matrimony sites.

The Flash Mob Phenomenon:The mob has many heads but no brains. Or so they say. The last four months of 2012 saw an exponential rise in the number of randomly arranged flash mobs in India, US, UK and Australia. Most of the flash mobs were centred on people dancing to or singing a popular trending song. There are all the indicators that the Flash Mob culture will rise strongly and will involve people from all walks of life to behave like idiots for a few minutes.

Status Messages: There was an astronomical increase in the number of people searching for the phrase ‘best status messages’ on Google. It’s probably the influx of innumerable brain alternatives that people these days are not able to think smartly for themselves. Sadly, some of the best status messages on IMs and social networking sites are re-hashed nonsense.

Well time to get something original and something new .

Till the writing stops, or refreshes a new, till thoughts are written forever and some are followed through. Till the very end is unending it will always be yours to keep, like the things that vanish somehow and yet a footprint they leave. Anyways wish you all a very happy new year . Rock it J

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt.