A year resembling the F-word

I am talking about Faith !!

I woke up on Tuesday morning and found the day to be very significant. Being the 1st day of the last month of this incredible year may be the reason for me feeling so :) What about you all?

Most of us, may feel the same way and just wish this year to get over sooner, hoping (isn’t hope the most important thing we have today?) that next year will be better. Unprecedented, awful, utterly bad, eventful and fateful, this year seems like, however, when I look back the past few months I think just like myself this year has been the greatest teacher for many of us. 

Of course, saddened by everything awful that has happened around us, we still have the determination to remain positive while testing negative :) 

On the same positive note when I reflect back on my own journey this year, I feel a sense of gratitude. Deciding to take up a new job leaving a stable one (ummmm if I will like to say so ..lol- what is a stable job by the way?) was the first incredible decision for me personally. What was more significant, this new job required relocation. And that was literally a haunting thought for both me and my family. I mean how can you think of relocating countries during covid times? But we did it and thankfully everything was peaceful only because of the assistance we received both from my reliving and my new organization. I am truly indebted!

What’s remarkable, are the learnings, and I had my bit :-

It's okay to be inadequate - I don't have this, I don't have that, I should save for that, I wish I had this…….

I am never going to feel this way again, that's my biggest learning this year. It's not that I am leaving this material world, however now I know how to embrace the idea of less and the fact that things won't make me happy. What will make me happy is good health and peace for my family and myself because nothing is more important than that. 

Learning should never stop - I learnt this mantra long before and this year taught me more. Whether learning a new skill that I am passionate about or reading a new book that will help me in my thought process.

No, I am not talking about a degree or a certification. I am just talking about learning something new. I learnt a lot of things, like being a pro in washing dishes, cutting vegetables or doing any house chores that I wasn’t doing before. And again, I am not doing a favour on my wife or anyone, I am just doing my stuff in my home - that's big learning I have got, nothing fad about it. 

We have grown with a lot of conventional ideas - I had this inkling since some time now and this year reinstated this belief. Whether religious, spiritual, political, social there are a lot of man-made fallacies we have grown up with. The idea is not to reject everything, but to understand what is best for us, our people around and the bigger universe that gets impacted by our actions. There are a lot of examples, and to talk about those I along with some of my closest friends have started a podcast where we share our thoughts on what we think as conventional and how we can avoid those to make our lives better. You may check some of our recent posts and discussions on @spilltheteapods on Instagram and follow the podcast links on various platforms. 

Whatever happens from here as no one knows what will we bring back every time we step out from our homes, the fact remains that we have to keep the faith and a sense of gratitude because while we cannot control the future, we can certainly build resilience to respond to it. 

Have a good and safe end to this year and may the coming time bless all of us!