New year's eve amplification

Not a long time ago, a good friend and a fellow blogger had posted the following question? Where will you be this 31st december? I am sure he got a lot of replies. Grand plans for the special day. People travelling to their favourite vacation spots or attending the hottest parties or hosting one of them.I am sure I will sound like a regular cynic when I say I don't understand the importance attached to this particular striking of 12. People will not be concerned if they had fun a week before or after it, but on that particular event in time they should be having the time of their lives. What I rarely hear from anyone is what they were doing  leading upto to that time or how much they enjoyed the weeks before and after. God forbid you are one of the people who had fun just before the special day you are considered stupid or crazy.

On the last day of my DC trip, during which there was 10 hours of walking involved, I was in no mood to walk anymore by 6pm. So it came as a simple choice for me to go directly to the airport before new year's eve instead of heading to a party. Spending a quite night with close friends or a good book would come before a noisy party for me anyday. Me being on a solo trip, the good book was my best option. While talking to people both before and after new years, I informed them of my pleasing plan of reading a good book with a hot coffee at the airport. I was a quite surprised then that my choice was called wierd, crazy, sad and worst of all philosophical. It baffled me that a friend of mine who had good plans on 1st jan was not satisfied that they had no plans on the special time. It made me laugh that my friend back in India had the worst new year's eve because he was made to stay back at home of no moon. Both of which are situations completely acceptable to me. But, my situation wasn't favoured by anyone I talked too. I think these two like many others were suffering from the new years eve amplification effect. Instead of concentrating on good times ahead they were fussing over a customary turning of the clock.

What happened to my plans you may ask? I did reach the airport 5 mins to new year's eve. And like I say, "When you really truly strive to be happy, even fate tickles you". Instead of just getting a comfortable spot to sip coffee  and read poetry, I got a seat that had a full view of all the planes taking off in different directions. Endless directions. Endless possibilities. I was once told as a kid that whatever you do on new year's eve you end up doing the rest of the year. I took it quite literally. Since then I have always strived to do what I love most during that time. If that means ditching a party in the terrace to read a book then so be it. So here I was reading a good book sipping hot coffee looking ahead at endless possibilities. That sure made me smile. And after all who doesnt like being happy all year ;).

I am sure whatever you just read is nothing original, but is nonetheless intented to put a point across. So as I sit here in the same airport getting ready to board a plane to chicago, here is  me hoping whatever you did during that so called special minute, it was something that made you happy, and maybe you can believe that something different no matter how insignificant it seems, did make others happy in its own way.