New year resolution - Listening to others & commanding/requesting others.
Till yesterday I was thinking that, if we were suggesting some cool ideas in Office or some good decisions to my friends/relatives - They should listen and execute my advice/command.
But today, when i was in bed at early morning i had a thought of taking new year resolution for '09. Thats where my thought process excelled and made me to think about the past 27years of my life. I used to make new-year-resolution mostly every year, here goes the examples - 'Should do my home work in time', 'Should return home early in the evening', 'Should not say any lies to my Amma, Appa or Anna', 'Should be more truthful to my anna and amma', 'Should score very high marks', 'Should not follow or think about any pretty Gals', 'Should continue my prayers of reading Kantha-Sasthi-Kavasam and writing SriRamaJeyam', even i had taken pledge like should write dairy every day. But at last alas every thing went in vain. Nothing happened as i expected.
Thinking continued and ended up in the un-answerable-question - "How many times my own brain is not ready to execute my commands/advice(mostly desires)". (When i planned for going to gym or swimming regularly - My brain will come up with hell lot of excuses to skip each and every day. I find myself very creative in finding cool reasons as excuses. )
Which helped to me come out of all my illusions about the real world thats where i am bundled with.
Then how come i can expect others such as my friends, relatives, colleagues or my family members can to listen and execute my commands/advice at-once. Then I just started thinking about my day-to-day life. I used to command my mom to do so many things as i like, with out knowing that it will be very hard for a women aged over 55 years to change her characters. Even i used to advice/command my colleagues in office, with out knowing that they are fresh out of college, they need some time to get adopted to the corporate world. I used to list out positives and negatives to my friends when i ever i came up with my own idea - which i expect them to follow. How many times i would have scolded my loved one for not executing my commands.
So finally coming to the conclusion - how should I end this blog. Gonna take a new year resolution saying "Dont expect others to execute/follow your advice/commands at-once. Give them some sweet time, they will definitely realize if my advices were helpful to them. Else let the TIME give them the lesson, if they do any mistakes." - Still gonna give out advices/commands with out expecting a change.
EXPECTATION IS THE MOTHER OF DISAPPOINTMENTS :)
I will come back here soon to post more on precedence in-line with my new year pledge. Hope this is the hardest resolution that i had ever taken. I know it is close-to-impossible to execute this 100% - but lemme try !!
Happy and Prosperous New year :)
