Happy 2025
FIRST wish you a joyful, healthy and peaceful New Year. We are reaching the end of the first quarter of the 21st Century. For people like me who were born at the end of the second quarter of the 20th century, it is a New Year that brings hope for a better future for the new generations following us.
When we enter a New Year, we look back and review what happened in our life and then look forward to a better future life. What is that every human being is looking for, happiness and good health to experience a good life, which means enough money to meet our needs and the luxuries we wish to have, no sickness and disabilities that deny us a normal life.
We always hear many predictions for the New Year about the future of the children, young couples, church, the State, and the country and hope for the best in all aspects. The political condition in India is stable; there is a stable government in the Centre, and almost all the States have stable governments in India.
Around the world, there are Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Arab wars, otherwise mostly stable. Syria had a change in leadership of the country. Around our families and community, there are people who suffer and people who are having a good life. In other words, everything seems to be normal. Therefore, some people enter 2025 with happiness and some people are not happy. This is the situation with all new years.
When entering a New Year, we often take new pledges. This year I am going to get married, this year I am going to buy a car, this year I am going to tour Singapore, etc. Most of the promises we make, we can make it happen. Then there are some that we will not be able to fulfil. Some promises we can take every year and try to fulfil are that I am going to be nice to others, I will not get angry or fight, I shall help those in need, and I will have a positive attitude to everything.
2025 is not going to be any different than previous years except that everybody will be older, some countries' rulers may change, there may be new advances in technology, science, medicine and engineering, and of course, there are going to be deaths and disasters around the world like hurricanes, cyclones and earthquakes, which we cannot predict.
Life in this world is about time and space, what period we live in the world and which space or where in this world we live. Malayalees occupy space all over the world, at least in 101 countries and many new generations are born in these countries, where Malayalees have migrated. 2025 is going to be a good year for Malayalees all over the world. Let us uphold that Malayalee identity of friendship and communal harmony all over the world. Let us use the space we occupy all over the world for the benefit of humankind, helping our neighbors, being nice to people we meet, extending a helping hand to those in need and upholding truth. We have to be model citizens wherever we live and good friends.
The year 2025 marks a milestone in different ways for different people in different countries. How can we make it a significant year in our life? Again, look back and review that past, understand the mistakes you made, proud of the achievements you had, what are the incidents that made you happy are or brought sorrow.
What are our pledges for 2025?
Now that you reviewed your past life, how do you want to continue your life, are you going to change the way you lead life or continue the same, are you going to do something new, do you think you have to change your lifestyle? Are you looking for a new job? are you thinking of starting a business, or you are going to continue and have fate take your life forward? In this New Year, you make those pledges and decisions.
Technology is going to change, communication between people seeing each other has become common, many people still suffer in the world, while many have improved their economic status, most of the democracies around the world are flourishing, and each of us has to live our own life at different situations and surroundings.
Let 2025 be a happy and successful year for you.
