The One with the Favorable Unpredictables
2016 will be bidding goodbye forever in another set of hours and I have the obsessive compulsion to finish the 'Year that was' post before 2017 shows up at the doorstep. December is the month to take a break from routine to reflect, ponder, and thank God and life for letting you survive to see the successful end of a year and anticipatory beginning of another new year of your life, giving you a new shot at those same resolutions.
In the ending lines of the 'Year in review' post of 2015, I had hoped and wished that 2016 would turn out to be as amazing, if not more... And my wish came true, most unpredictably and most favorably...
2016 has been the year that whispered faintly,
'For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you...'
'My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways not yours says the Lord'
A year, in my view, of unending favor of God.
There were times, when I felt defeated and broken and utterly helpless and this was exactly when the Favorable Unpredictable happened. The minute I gave up was when life took over, changed my circumstances, without me asking for it. 2016 has given me faith in life, it gave me reason to believe that the most unexpected and impossible thing is just waiting around the corner, waiting to happen. waiting to catch you off-guard and later allow life to play out self-explanatorily as to why these were the Favorable Unpredictables, though it may not have been obvious initially.
My parents talked me out off applying for a higher course at a prestigious institute and before I had a chance to worry about what I was going to do, my boss called me up to ask me if I would like to travel to Amsterdam for a short-time assignment. A long-standing dream comes true.
An email from work, unfairly accusatory and uncalled for from my TL marking my seniors. Even as I was contemplating my angry reply to this mail, another one arrives, a different mail, a mail of appreciation from the executive director, marking the very same seniors. I did not have to complain or explain.
(Be Still and know that I am God, I will fight for you)
More than anything else, 2016 brought me back home. Kochi, where things fall into place. Kochi where all problems can be sorted out. Kochi to reconnect with my childhood.
This year, we met many of my long-time friends from school, college and everywhere else and made new friendships - V and her baby boy, A in AMS, made new friend M at AMS Hillsong, J whom we almost met in AMS, and later met over cake and caramel cappuccinos in Kochi, AP in Chennai- to give her a bottle of wine from AMS. We met S, my roommate and bestie from college. We also watched our best friend A get married to her college sweetheart, finally saw that genuine smile which was hiding away all these years, now refusing to leave her face. Then we met S Aunty, our third floor neighbor in Kochi, who has now became so close to our family and matters very much to us. But, we missed A and J's wedding in Vizag and missed visiting RR and N and baby in Bangalore. We made an oddball friendship with G, purely based on our mutual love for cakes and statistics. And a friendship of sorts with munchkins and minions of sorts in Trivandrum and Kochi.
Ok we have now started writing referring to self in plural form. We watched lot of Netflix this year, we read less number of books as a corollary. We ate lot of homemade food. We gathered a few extra kilograms. We cried a lot lot less this year. though we had heartaches from time to time and a few desperate moments hoping and wishing for a miracle that never came. We bounced back up faster and stronger than ever before.
2016 was an important year for many people as they took life changing decisions. Maybe I have not made any life-altering game-changing moves yet, maybe I have not driven past those milestones yet, the true love milestone, marriage milestone, baby milestone, buy a house or buy a car milestone, most of which my friends have already accomplished. And maybe my most significantly proud accomplishment and Facebook update was that I saw a wonder of the world up close, in its sparkling glory at Paris. (Here it is! Sigh)
But, this yearwas is important because the Favorable Unpredictables reminded me that I was ready, instilled in me a lost confidence and lighted the candle called 'hope' to take on these decisions and moves for the new year of life in 2017. The 'Favorable Unpredictables' have further insisted that even if things may temporarily seem to go awry, that they have indeed got my back and that things will fall into place well and beautifully in the end.
In 2017, I wish I would wake up with this same energy. Energy and drive to accomplish, to do more and to succeed or to fail. To be fearless, relentless and persevering in pursuit of those dreams. I wish and pray to God, that in all these running and chasing around after these desires and dreams, I would not lose sight of the core purpose of my life. And that I would understand and find love... The basis for all dreams.
In the ending lines of the 'Year in review' post of 2015, I had hoped and wished that 2016 would turn out to be as amazing, if not more... And my wish came true, most unpredictably and most favorably...
2016 has been the year that whispered faintly,
'For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you...'
'My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways not yours says the Lord'
A year, in my view, of unending favor of God.
There were times, when I felt defeated and broken and utterly helpless and this was exactly when the Favorable Unpredictable happened. The minute I gave up was when life took over, changed my circumstances, without me asking for it. 2016 has given me faith in life, it gave me reason to believe that the most unexpected and impossible thing is just waiting around the corner, waiting to happen. waiting to catch you off-guard and later allow life to play out self-explanatorily as to why these were the Favorable Unpredictables, though it may not have been obvious initially.
My parents talked me out off applying for a higher course at a prestigious institute and before I had a chance to worry about what I was going to do, my boss called me up to ask me if I would like to travel to Amsterdam for a short-time assignment. A long-standing dream comes true.
An email from work, unfairly accusatory and uncalled for from my TL marking my seniors. Even as I was contemplating my angry reply to this mail, another one arrives, a different mail, a mail of appreciation from the executive director, marking the very same seniors. I did not have to complain or explain.
(Be Still and know that I am God, I will fight for you)
More than anything else, 2016 brought me back home. Kochi, where things fall into place. Kochi where all problems can be sorted out. Kochi to reconnect with my childhood.
This year, we met many of my long-time friends from school, college and everywhere else and made new friendships - V and her baby boy, A in AMS, made new friend M at AMS Hillsong, J whom we almost met in AMS, and later met over cake and caramel cappuccinos in Kochi, AP in Chennai- to give her a bottle of wine from AMS. We met S, my roommate and bestie from college. We also watched our best friend A get married to her college sweetheart, finally saw that genuine smile which was hiding away all these years, now refusing to leave her face. Then we met S Aunty, our third floor neighbor in Kochi, who has now became so close to our family and matters very much to us. But, we missed A and J's wedding in Vizag and missed visiting RR and N and baby in Bangalore. We made an oddball friendship with G, purely based on our mutual love for cakes and statistics. And a friendship of sorts with munchkins and minions of sorts in Trivandrum and Kochi.
Ok we have now started writing referring to self in plural form. We watched lot of Netflix this year, we read less number of books as a corollary. We ate lot of homemade food. We gathered a few extra kilograms. We cried a lot lot less this year. though we had heartaches from time to time and a few desperate moments hoping and wishing for a miracle that never came. We bounced back up faster and stronger than ever before.
2016 was an important year for many people as they took life changing decisions. Maybe I have not made any life-altering game-changing moves yet, maybe I have not driven past those milestones yet, the true love milestone, marriage milestone, baby milestone, buy a house or buy a car milestone, most of which my friends have already accomplished. And maybe my most significantly proud accomplishment and Facebook update was that I saw a wonder of the world up close, in its sparkling glory at Paris. (Here it is! Sigh)
But, this year
In 2017, I wish I would wake up with this same energy. Energy and drive to accomplish, to do more and to succeed or to fail. To be fearless, relentless and persevering in pursuit of those dreams. I wish and pray to God, that in all these running and chasing around after these desires and dreams, I would not lose sight of the core purpose of my life. And that I would understand and find love... The basis for all dreams.
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