New year resolutions

1)Throughout my adult life,(between ages 18-28) I have been criticized for being a serious guy. The nerdy bird, the geeky hick. Of course I admit, I have been criticized for all the right reasons. I did belong to the species of this kind and and it has been only in the last couple of years that I have changed as I have became wiser (I hope). Having said that, I might still be a serious guy, bad at jokes and certainly awkward and insipid at concise storytelling. In short, I suffer from a word I have coined called "dysmilia" : unable to smile enough in life. ;)

So, my first new  year's resolution is - start smiling more! (Now please don't start laughing, I am serious)

2) I have always lacked the discipline to write a blog. I have many ideas in my mind and I forget them if I don't capture them. So I have decided to write something for a start. I remember my good old school days when, in order to develop my language skills and to do better in board exams, my English teacher Mrs. Shahane had asked me to write a page in English/Hindi. I used to write a page a day even before that.It was a time when  my Grandfather coached me for the scholarship exam. Writing a single page essay was part of the English language section of the exam and the lazy bum that I am, I did not like it too much. (I also wrote some pages in marathi for something called as "Shudh lekhan" meaning "pure writing" to improve my spellings in marathi. This is perhaps the only activity ever in my life that my father took some interest in. This is also one of the reasons for my good handwriting in marathi/hindi.)  Over the years, other things grew in importance and I gave up on my writing habit. Well, it was never a habit to start off with, and it was over in a year's time. In those days, I used to struggle to find a topic for writing my page. I almost always ended up writing something around a story I had picked up in the newspaper or the cricket match I happened to watch during that time. After so many years that have gone by in between, I think it is high time that I start creating a bit of my own history.

**The word smile can be traced to sanskrit word "smayate" or he smiles..( I can also think of vismay which I think means wonder.. and I believe when a person wonders, one smiles to Him)