It is almost customary amongst bloggers to summarize the year went by, because half of us bloggers think that we are journalists and we must shoulder the responsibility of summarizing the year went by. I too shall fulfill that expectation but in a blog that shall come out soon and maybe that soon happens not so soon given the hectic life these days.
Prof. K V Raju at IRMA taught me about life being more about the shadow of the future than the shadow of the past. So what does this year hold for me? An interesting question it is for me to answer. But let’s make a try.
Looking at history, I was not doing so well personally in 2004 and then came in 2005 and I decided to change things around me and started the way of giving names and themes to year. I don’t have resolutions for the new year but I have targets. The names of these years are qualitatively indicative of the targets. These are not “SMART’ targets but they are targets that have motivated and guided me like mission statements for the year. To that extent this is again an experiment that seems to have been a success but it is yet difficult to describe it in full. So there was the year of the transformation, the year of the rising, and the year of the making. So what can this year be? Hmm to my heart and mind the next episode is the “delivery “ or the “realization”.
Realization is a not so simple word and concept. Realisation is a big word and it carries weight. As a verb it indicates an ongoing process and yet it is confused as it can indicate a culmination of a process or a temporary climax that leads to the initiation of many more processes. Merriam Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realize) gives an interesting meaning from the dictionary. It tells of “to bring into concrete existence”, or “to make appear real”. My interpretation of the same is that “realisation” is “to bring to concrete existence” or “to bring to existence in real”.
This quite ushers in the New Year to be the “Year of REALISATION”.
So lets see what we “realise” in this year though we are clear of what we want to “realise” in this year after the year of transformation, rising and making… we need to realise.
Prof. K V Raju at IRMA taught me about life being more about the shadow of the future than the shadow of the past. So what does this year hold for me? An interesting question it is for me to answer. But let’s make a try.
Looking at history, I was not doing so well personally in 2004 and then came in 2005 and I decided to change things around me and started the way of giving names and themes to year. I don’t have resolutions for the new year but I have targets. The names of these years are qualitatively indicative of the targets. These are not “SMART’ targets but they are targets that have motivated and guided me like mission statements for the year. To that extent this is again an experiment that seems to have been a success but it is yet difficult to describe it in full. So there was the year of the transformation, the year of the rising, and the year of the making. So what can this year be? Hmm to my heart and mind the next episode is the “delivery “ or the “realization”.
Realization is a not so simple word and concept. Realisation is a big word and it carries weight. As a verb it indicates an ongoing process and yet it is confused as it can indicate a culmination of a process or a temporary climax that leads to the initiation of many more processes. Merriam Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/realize) gives an interesting meaning from the dictionary. It tells of “to bring into concrete existence”, or “to make appear real”. My interpretation of the same is that “realisation” is “to bring to concrete existence” or “to bring to existence in real”.
This quite ushers in the New Year to be the “Year of REALISATION”.
So lets see what we “realise” in this year though we are clear of what we want to “realise” in this year after the year of transformation, rising and making… we need to realise.
2 comments:
hmm hmm.. with last year realizations and new year resolutions.. have a super year ahead!!
Nice picture, VB! :0)
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