Never ending wishes.....

We all wish for a happy New Year. But inspite of all our wishes, it isn't going to be like that. Not that I am being sarcastic by implying that we all have a bad year ahead. But over the years, I have come to the conclusion that it is only through crisis that we learn. All our efforts in doing good things are essentially wasted because we are never really ready. Human society has only learned, progressed and innovated itself through crisis. Creation always happens after the crisis. Hence, mass killings bring people together to fight injustice, war brings people to talk about peace, recession brings people to talk about restraint. Large scale unemployment is one of the reasons that made capitalism thrive. The 1930s depression made the US to think about more productive avenues to boost production and make economic growth sustainable. Even now, 26/11 attacks in Mumbai has brought back sharp focus on security issues. The problems, in all their calamity are lying there-dormant. It takes one of these problems to make change happen. Although, it is very unfortunate that we require collosal loss of confidence in our own existence to actually challenge the status quo, therein lies our awakening. We want to be shattered, destroyed to leave our comfort zone and act. Maybe we are all to doomed to act rationally only under extreme circumstances. So the new year-we will have it anyways. Which one? You decide.....