To many people, in the new year, there will be much to look forward to … new things, new ideas, new places, new faces, new challenges and maybe new beginnings.
Whatever it is … let it be good for all.
As for me … the new year will more or less of what I have been doing this year and several years before that. I guess there won’t be much … kind of boring isn’t it?
Why so boring? No resolutions? No dreams? No plans? What about travel … nothing on the bucket list?
Hmmmm … let me think.
Resolutions? No, I don’t have new year’s resolutions … quit
this, stop that, learn this or lose that. But I am always unlearning and
relearning … because many of the things I learned before may not be applicable now.
Though I am an old school person and I still hold on to some old school ways of
doing things but certain things must change. What I used to know to be true may
not be true anymore and this can adversely affect my ability to apply judgements
on related matter. So, day in and day out, progressively, I am unlearning and
relearning.And maybe I am also teaching … well, not teaching like a professional but what I have unlearned and relearned ... I will talk about it, I will pass it on, I will share it and I will write about it … that, I think is a form of teaching.
Dreams? I have said it before, I no longer have dreams. Dreams are not for me now … dreams if it is big enough, it will take a long time to realised … some may even take a lifetime to achieve. For me … if I dream, it will have to be big enough to scare me … so, by the time I achieve my dream, I will probably be dead.
I don’t have the time to chase for dreams ... so I look for smaller and easier things to do … just do things that come by, do whatever that is in front of me and then move on to the next task. And instead of spending time dreaming … I rather spend my time seeking memories, looking for familiars faces, places, tastes and sentiments … embarking on nostalgic thoughts and moments.
Travel? Nope, no big plans for travelling. My only plan for travel is to China again … it is due to my long interest of the ancient history of China. Other than that, maybe a couple of family holiday trips in the region.
You see, I cannot afford to travel like others … going to exotic places for sightseeing and holidays. I have limited budget for my travel and it will be for budgeted travels related to my interest in ancient world history and civilisations … hence, my earlier trips to Eqypt, Greece, India, China and some other places of interest.
Bucket list? I have no a bucket list … there is nothing that I
think I must do before I die. Errrrrr … maybe that’s not true … I would like to
see my children get married and have their own children before I die. But you don’t
consider that in your bucket list, right?Look, I like to trek … I think I have trekked long enough to be called a trekker. Like all trekkers … I love the Himalayas. Many trekkers put the Himalayas on their bucket list, a place they must go and many went. But not for me and I think my chances of trekking the Himalayas is like next to winning a lottery. And that is ok … that does not make me any less passionate in trekking that any other who have trekked the ABC, EBC or other Himalaya trails.
There is no delicacies that I must eat, no adventures I must try, no places I must go, no people I must meet before I die … I don’t look too far ahead, just do whatever comes by and take things simple and easy.
Eh? … maybe there is one thing I must do before I die … try to stay alive !!!
So, just like the past several years … there are no big things for me in the coming year and that is good. I am not looking forward to big things … big things are complicated things. I am not looking forward to too many things either … too many things, it will get complicated too. Someone once said I am a lazy fella … give me complicated tasks and I will think of the most simple and easy way to do it. I am fine if people want to put it that way.
Let me quote again ... “I am at my best in my simplest form” ... really, life is full of simple pleasures … apa susah susah ?
