Euphoria on the arrival of yet another New Year is perhaps one of the biggest expositions of that eternal human feeling - hope. We renew old pledges for this year's New Year resolutions, make up some new, hoping to better one's track records in keeping them; we entertain friends and relatives alike in the hope that the streak of merriment such unleashed, will continue through the year unabated. We feel confident that a lot of the worries that plagued us would solve themselves somehow, lot of the rewards that should have come our way, would now be able to reach their rightful claimants. We look up the newspaper pages and the infectious streak of optimism is there too - hi-tech gizmos that will liven up the New Year; the films of the Bollywood and Hollywood biggies that are sure to rule the roost; how Chidambaram, Montek, Manmohan and many others of their ilk are going to make India an epitome of 3rd world reaching 1st world; Bihar gets its messiah and a hopeful deliverance from years of being the butt of national snide remarks; a new captain and coach are hoping to cement their pedestals in cricket history in our neighbouring country etc etc.
It won't take a geeky statistician to tell you that the probability of all the good things to happen in a single year are the same as Sania Mirza winning a Grand Slam this year (I believe I am not being too pessimistic here :)). But hope must burn bright in the hearts to ensure that we are able to shrug off the many failures and raise a toast to the few successes that would definitely happen this year.
It won't take a geeky statistician to tell you that the probability of all the good things to happen in a single year are the same as Sania Mirza winning a Grand Slam this year (I believe I am not being too pessimistic here :)). But hope must burn bright in the hearts to ensure that we are able to shrug off the many failures and raise a toast to the few successes that would definitely happen this year.
And it is indeed a miracle that every once in a while, something happens to ensure that we do not completely lose our streaks of optimism. A terrible natural disaster like the tsunami that engendered destruction and death, vicariously lead to peace in Aceh in Indonesia, thus sparing thousands of gruesome deaths in the future. A woman was apparently pulled out of rubble in the Pakistani Kashmir after two months of being under that.
A Happy New Year and a salute to the spirit of hope and optimism amongst us !!
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