2132nd BLOG POST
It has been almost
a week since celebrating the New Year Evening and welcoming 2025 with open
arms. How wonderful it is to hope for best every time we change calendars at
our home. It has been so many years yet I feel the same enthusiasm whenever I
realize that the current year is about to end and the new one is about to
start. It always brings with it a positive vibes and belief that everything
will get better and beautiful. I have a lot of expectations from 2025. This is
the year which can bring a lot many changes in my life from both- personal and
career perspective. All the graphs in my life are currently moving upwards and
I hope 2025 provides them the zenith they are trying to hit.
But before
welcoming anything new, we look at the old which was with us and gave its
support until the new replaced it. In the same regards, it becomes mandatory to
look back at 2024 and revisit the year. 2025 shall be whatever it is because
2024 has been a certain way. Thankfully, 2024 has been a year of transformation
for sure. There were few common yearly targets and milestones that happened
successfully but along with the regulars, there were some new elements,
surprises, shocks and tragedy too. It’s time to get into bullet format to make
it easier for all of you to go through them within two to three minutes:
👉
Reached the milestone of 2100th Blog Post & 15 years of Blogging.
Though I must say that I should have written more than just reviewing books.
👉Completed the Reading Challenge of 36
books yet again. (Completed this milestone by giving all my time in last 2.5
months by reading 22 books in just 75 days)
👉Won 2nd position in Hackathon
competition at my organization. An event where my idea got shortlisted from
200+ ideas to Top 80, then Top 26, Top 14 and finally in Top 2. This is
definitely a rare professional achievement which isn’t very easy to get.
👉Got a chance to present my project to
multiple Reserve Bank of India's officials which boosted my confidence. This is
special because these were dignitaries who are at higher designations and
presenting to them needs lot of preparation, confidence and team’s belief.
👉Gave multiple training sessions in my
company which was a distinct experience indeed. This is again special because I
always aspired to give training sessions to colleagues of my department and
team of freshers.
👉Traveled to Goa twice
👉Traveled to Pondicherry and
Mahabalipuram; my 1st-ever South-Eastern India visit. Did my first ever
scuba-diving here.
👉Had a long drive in my new Altroz car
to Jhansi and once again gave surprise to my dear siblings. Meeting with my
sister is always among the most beautiful and joyful moments of my life. The
farewell was definitely teary-eyed for all of us. It took hours to get back to
normal. 😊
👉My chachaji and buaji family visited
us which provided the needed refreshment. This was again special as Rakhi was
tied to me on the day of Rakshabandhan directly by one of my cousin sisters otherwise
have always received Rakhis in envelopes.
👉Had a great time at Kaun Banega
Crorepati sets and got another chance to interact with my idol, Mr. Amitabh
Bachchan. It was just the 4th episode of this season.
👉Experienced the Bollywood divas-
Katrina Kaif & Kriti Sanon in an interview live in front of my eyes. They
are as tall as Burj Khalifas and as beautiful as a Full Moon and Setting Sun.
👉Also experienced watching Kapil Sharma
show shooting. Got an opportunity to experience the legendary Rekha ji, Kapil
Sharma, Krishna, Sunil Grover, Kiku Sharma, Rajiv Thakur etc. performing live
in front of us.
👉Enjoyed watching Zakir Khan (3rd
time), Biswa Kalyan Rath and Ravi Verma's standup comedy live.
👉Attended Jubin Nautiyal's concert
which was a lifetime experience. My best ever concert ever!
👉Had a good time with office friends in
multiple night-outs.
👉I was able to perform Ekadashi fasting
for all the 11th day of moon cycle without missing a single one. Om
Namo Bhagvate Vasudevay!
👉Experienced many of the above moments
with someone whom I met this year and made my life magical. It can be what you
are thinking or may be something completely different. Keep guessing! 😉
Well, when life
gives you these many special moments to remember, it also brings along few
difficult ones as well. As a human being having most of things not in our control,
it’s our duty to accept our weakness and vulnerability rather than staying with
the pain and not leaving it for life.
Lost Verma Uncle –
the only person whose palm-reading I trusted. He was more like a family member
and losing him suddenly made me feel incomplete for a long time. Lost another
family member with whom I couldn’t meet and directly being at the funeral was a
painful moment for me. I am still not completely out of it but as I said, will
accept it shortly. From the professional perspective, I had to bear a very
toxic person because of whom I had to suffer for 4 months continuously where
each day felt like being jailed and tortured. He ended up spoiling a lot of
things for me but thankfully, I regained more than that in the 2nd
half of the year. Being at the right place at the right time between the right
people really helps.
Overall, 2024 has
been an year when beautiful things has happened to me the impact of which shall
stay for all my life. Thanking God for listening to my prayers and providing me
whatever he feels is best for me.
Wishing you all a
very Happy New Year 2025. Hope you have your resolutions ready. 😊
Thanks!
WRITING BUDDHA
