Hi friends, It is January and I do not know whether I should wish you all Happy New Year. A day into 2022, and for the first time in my life, I wondered whether cheery HNY messages and texts could trigger their recipients. I went on a rather frigid evening run that day to clear my head of some upsetting news (minor in the larger scheme of things) I received on new year’s eve. Then I sent Happy New Year messages to friends and acquaintances who wished me first, and some others who I thought would get my intent and forgive me, even if my message exuded the wrong kind of vibe.
I feel reassured by hearing that you too have thought about wishing people HNY. It just seems so off a choice of words, laden with assumptions. This is not the first time I have felt that. I wish there was a better way. I took to a mouthful of wishing people a warm and healthy holiday season and new year ahead. As for on hold. It never ceases to amaze me just how much living can be done even when time is ruptured and disrupted. The only way is through... Here is to hoping for a kinder and gentler year, with more knowns than unknown.
Thank you, Mehrunnisa, for sharing your experience. How much living can happen even when time is ruptured is such an earnest way to sum up the feeling of now. I (T) am also learning more about patience through this pandemic as somethings remain on hold while some things don't.
I feel reassured by hearing that you too have thought about wishing people HNY. It just seems so off a choice of words, laden with assumptions. This is not the first time I have felt that. I wish there was a better way. I took to a mouthful of wishing people a warm and healthy holiday season and new year ahead. As for on hold. It never ceases to amaze me just how much living can be done even when time is ruptured and disrupted. The only way is through... Here is to hoping for a kinder and gentler year, with more knowns than unknown.
Thank you, Mehrunnisa, for sharing your experience. How much living can happen even when time is ruptured is such an earnest way to sum up the feeling of now. I (T) am also learning more about patience through this pandemic as somethings remain on hold while some things don't.