Good Bye to 2008

Another year ended. Another year to begin. Or shall I say, a new dawn with lots of hope and peace. Will that happen? No one knows what is stored in for the New Year. Who knew that India will see terror attacks. Who knew that Mumbai will be shocked by terror attacks. Not only Mumbai but many metro cities also experienced these terrors. Who knew that India will win a gold medal in Olympics. Who knew that Obama would get elected as US President.

Nothing is predictable. But because of this should we loose hope? Should we not try to fight our personal problems as well as nation’s problems? Of course we should. Every new thing brings hope along with it. Every year we hope that something good is stored for us. Hope is everything. If we hope for something, we work towards it to get the desired results.

If we look back at year 2008, we can say that the year was good as well as bad. Everything depends on your outlook. It depends whether you see glass half empty or half filled. I am not saying that we should overlook the terror attacks and forget about the innocent lives which were lost. Absolutely not. But we should also remember about the railway announcer whose presence of mind saved lives of hundreds of people. We should be grateful to the policemen who didn’t budge even after knowing that their superiors were killed, to elite commandos who fought fiercely with the terrorists. We should thank them but what we do is wonder why were they late, why did it take so much time to kill terrorists and evacuate the hostages. But does anyone even realize that they entered the vicinity without knowing anything about the layout of the place. No, no one thinks in that direction. People want to blame someone or the other. Am I right? That is something that one needs to think upon. Why is there so much hatred everywhere? What do we get from it? Well, for many it’s the outlet of their frustration or they feel that by doing so they are doing something for the nation. But really are we? Guys think over. How long will we remember these attacks? Search for the answer within you.

In all these lets not forget about Abinav Bindra, Sushil Kumar and Vijendra Singh who made us all proud at international level. Another achievement was the launch of Chandrayan by ISRO for recording the images of moon. That’s the step towards proving your country as developed country. We also signed the nuclear deal.

Ain’t these things important? Shouldn’t we remember these things as well.

Well this is what I had to pen down. I don’t expect you all to agree with what I have penned down. But atleast you will ask yourselves about it. You will have to give it a thought. And please be honest to yourself.

Lets hope that the new dawn will give us some hope and sense of pride.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!