A new year's resolution for all..

So it's a new day in a brand new year. But there's no feeling of any 'new-ness' in it. Because as such, we are all doing the same thing. Well, almost. And not one of you can say to me that they ended up, in one night and one day, doing something new for a new beginning. Because that is a big fat lie.

New year's eve, everyone I know had been planning to go somewhere or another and spend some ridicilous amount of over 60 Omani Rials just to have one night to remember for the whole year when;
A) You know very well after 10 whole days that Eid Al Adh-ha is coming up and you're probably be needing double that money for Eediya or the goat sacrifice to be done on that holy day of year.
B) You also know that you can have just as much fun with your friends without the need to drink or go to somewhere where alcohol is served in the privacy of your own homes, under the starlit skies with home-cooked food and an even better uncramped atmosphere.

I'm not being stingy or anything. But it's just becoming a stupid repititive trend that happens in Oman every single end of the year. And it's such a shame that we end up asking ourselves where'd all that money go..?

Whereas in the world there millions, if not, billions of people who starve of malnutrition because of the unavailability of food in their lands, and we sit around buffets stuffing ourselves with only so much that the rest is thrown away to the roaches, flies and other insects of the underworld.

If we would like to spend our new year with a good start, why not start with ourselves by changing or imerging the better self to take over and become more realistic about our decisions, and look more deeply about social matters in our daily lifestyles and behavior. I would think that this would be a rather more promising goal than blathering or squandering off well earned money on things that either our relegions prohibit or our guilty conscience wakes up to the next morning slapping us with the simple yet deep facts of life that we live by.

It's a start.

So, why not make it a good one?