Big wheel keep on turning...

The world ushered the New Year on the 1st of January. The Chinese, Japanese and Koreans ushered the year of the Rooster on the 28th of January. On 29th January, Roger Federer bagged his 18th title. Two months into the year of the rooster and us Konkans are celebrating Gudi Padwa :)

What’s my point you ask? Well, the new year is still a new year. The financial new year begins on the 1st of April. 14th of April the Tamilians will celebrate Puthandu and the Malayalis will celebrate Vishu. Basically each state in our country will keep celebrating the New year till it actually becomes an old year which is towards November after which zero thoughts are given to the year.

This day, in 2009 I wrote a post on this very topic and I said I would count the number of times we celebrate the “New Year” and I conveniently forgot about it and returned to google today only to find that Wikipedia got there first. I guess that makes my work easy huh?
8 years back we were a family of five. We are still a family of five. Yet so much has changed. What good is it to live, if the wheel isn’t taking you to new places whether you pedal forward ( be one with the wheel), or sit on a plank with wheels underneath (Dominating the wheel) or if you are the one pushing the wheel to make a move forward (Submitting to the power of the wheel).

Like the song goes… Big wheel keep on turning...

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