When you actually think about it, what a hell of a year it was! 2024 was a year short of anything but excitement. From politics to economy and sports to music, this year was a racecar. One can tell nothing about this year without a remark on Mr. Donald Trump. What drama it was! America going to the polls making history with Trump coming back, Trump being shot at...it was crazy. Elon Musk spending half a billion dollars to help Trump. Musk himself making history with SpaceX using 'chopstick arms' to catch the returning booster rockets and Perseverance finding microbial life on Mars. Space prospects had never been higher. India is moving towards Gaganyaan and that is such an absolute moment of pride.
But come on, who cared about anything but music by the end? Bruno Mars was back with not one but two bangers. Lady Gaga was literally and figuratively smokin' with her songs and Rose tied Jungkook...and K-pop fans bear with me if I don't share the details. It is just because I don't know.
Yet one can never act like politics never mattered, 'cause obviously Sheikh Hasina just got ousted, South Korea's sitting President got an arrest warrant issued against him with the assent of their highest court and Trump's upcoming policies are predicted to be sweet pies for India.
Humans are still humans though. The wars are still raging on, countless people are deported and displaced, children are deprived of education, women are still being taken advantage of... and that brings me to the most important stuff of 2024. What happened in Kolkata will never be forgotten. To all the people of the world who blamed a woman's dressing for her getting harassed- That was a female doctor who was in her usual attire (prescribed for hospitals i.e. her uniform) who worked for long hours and just wanted some rest in our reckless and disgusting society. People are just people, right? We forget. Of course, we do. That is why we still suffer. Never respond, never question, just live by some rule which isn't even a rule. Live by something that no one imposed on you but you. That was 2024.
I never wanted to write about macabre stuff in this, but that one sentence mid-way just changed all I perceived. How flimsy attention is! I never thought about the incident when I did a quick retrospection of what I wanted to write. How forgetful we are! I bet that Chechi's family never forgot.
Leaving all our distaste behind, we are actually capable of beautiful things. We all are certain pieces of fabric woven together in this beautiful tapestry we call life. Woven together is just a coincidence though. Can't argue, we are. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...". It was Dickens who said this. Man, he knew the paradoxes we are. Self is a beautiful thing; you can never understand it. The moment you start to think about it, your mind just branches and branches away into endless curiosities. That is true beauty. Kafka was gold to remind us that we would never know chains exist until we try to move. With the new year coming, be like Maya Angelou's lovely birds. If you are the caged one, sing for your heart's desire, the trill of your voice will be heard far and wide and might even reach the Valars (The power of Arda) of Valinor. Read, read until you create Darcy's library from Pemberly, read till you can walk beside Alice, read till you can reach the lands of Mordor and read till you can meet the great Odysseus.
The year might have been bad, it might have been hell as pictured with thorns and lava and nettles and the raw figure of disgust gawking at you, but it is over. Life is but modern art - might never make sense on its own. It just depends on what you think about it. I am not a fan of New Year Resolutions as I am rather infamous for not following even a single day's timetable. Yet, it isn't a crime to hope for tomorrow, right? Let's just go with the music in all of us...that exquisite feeling which needs no words to make perfect sense. Just fly, flow, form and flutter with all you want. It is there just within your lovely grasp. You just need to know that it is there for you...and is never going anywhere. It will always be there for you.
2025 is right around the corner, the time is up for this year to end...just mins. away is a new beginning...just listen to some smooth jazz and wind your dreams...
Talk Soon,
Meenakshi B Krishnan
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