Machaan!!! Happy New Year!!!

New Year’s Day. January 1st. A time for celebration. A time to welcome a new year with hope and excitement. But January 1st is very special in another way. How?

So, yours truly and his friends set off to Besant Nagar Beach after a routine New Year’s Eve party. There is a virtual race of sorts to reach the destination before the stroke f midnight. By the way, on no time of the year will u be able to see traffic at midnight like that on a New Year’s. We realized we are still on the road at 12am. It doesn’t matter as high fives were exchanged between bikers notwithstanding the frenetic pace of our travel. We reach the beach at 5 min past midnight and had to walk a good 500 meters to reach Barista Coffee Shop.

As we walk, we hear people shouting ‘Happy New Year’ to their friends and strangers. Suddenly every stranger I meet on the street is like my best friend. Every voice sounds happy & straight from their heart came ‘Machan!!! Happy New Year’ as if they are wishing their best friend. This along with a friendly handshake or even a hug. I don’t remember any face that wished me on that day, but I was more than happy to reciprocate with my version of ‘Machan!!! Happy New Year’.

This made me think of one thing. What if all 365 days of the year be the same? Why do people run like machines on all days not even bothering to smile at a person next to them in a bus, or for that sake, anybody they meet? It’s another thing that at least half of those who wished me were drunk. But still, the world would be a much happy place to live if we find the same happy spirit that I witnessed on everybody’s face on that night.

Happy New Year friends. Do at least one good thing everyday and make at least one person smile everyday. Your life will be a lot more meaningful then.