New Year, Newthin

Another year has passed by – The first few words of every classic clichéd New Year’s shit post. To you, it is another article but to me it’s a chance to look back at all the things that has  happened during the year. It might not be the most entertaining thing to you. If you don’t like it, don’t tell me that I didn’t warn you. By the way, its’ been more than 100 days since I last wrote anything but this will hopefully get me back on my feet with respect to writing.

As far as other areas are concerned, this year has surprisingly treated me well. Getting into my very first job and thereby getting an opportunity to stay in a new city has been promising. Living by yourself helps you see things the small things that you had earlier chosen to overlook. You start realising the amount of effort that your mum and dad put into raising you. You wake up hungry at 11 in the morning after a tired day and you realise how millions of people do the same without having a choice. For someone that never knew what hunger felt like, this sure did teach a lot.

If someone had told me that I would have started working when I’m just 20, I would have laughed in their face and just ignored them. But here I am. A huge transition from being a carefree student to a responsible professional. To everyone that have helped me through this transition, I can’t thank you enough for everything that you have done. From breaking down in office to being appreciated by your manager, I have seen it all this year. Thankfully, I am in a place that I like and surrounded by people that really care for me. I like working with the superiors that I have and enjoy spending quality time with friends from work. Most of them find me funny :P

But most importantly, I thank this year for magically infusing a sense of calmness into my life and a bit of control over my anger. The ability to shut up at times has been extremely helpful and immensely peaceful. I thank everyone that is still hanging around coze you make my day a bit brighter but if we don’t talk much anymore, it is still fine. If you’re still reading this, I thank you for being curious about my monotonous life and I hope you could take away a thing or two once you’re done reading this article.

Coming to the end of this shit post, I am not going to ask for the nicest of years but for another year that challenges me, a year that puts me through pain and difficulties and at the end of the next year, I wish I could write another clichéd shitpost like this :P

Happy New Year and I wish the best for everyone that has read it till this part and for others that decided to move on to another post, I wish a little less successful year :P
Much love <3

- Nithin Karthikeyan