Judgmental opinions

Time sometimes stands still Days breeze past You lose count of the days Yet there are moments when suddenly time seems to stand still You revel in the moment Those times when time stands still forms part of your memories Time stood still when we first fall love Time stood still when we first got the news of being appointed for our new job Especially if it was a coveted one Time stood still when the first child was born As we grow older such moments seem to decrease Years breeze on Now time stands still during that rare feeling of awe and reverence on seeing something wondrous As we near the year end we have lost that sensation of time standing still The days this year rushed through And suddenly I realise that 2019 passed by unnoticed I forgot to make resolutions for the new year I forgot what resolutions I had made last year for this year And I doubt if I would have had the ability to fulfill them So I am holding the clock by the hour hand and think of resolutions...

A friend of mine who has purchased a new mobile some time back forgot to twiddle with the settings in the various apps downloaded in the new one This resulted in his birthday being recorded in the default as 1st January And expectedly he has received a shower of birthday greetings from friends He pointed out this error later in the day today but some messages continue to trickle in It has made me realize how shallow we are in greeting others We greet all and sundry by copying and pasting New year greetings, birthday greetings, festival greetings... do we really mean what we say? Are we really happy and wanting to share the joy and happiness of a birthday or a festival? Earlier in the pre-mobile days, pre-facebook days there was no means of being reminded of birthdays We treasured a few people and made it a point to personally greet them on their birthdays We travelled to each others houses to greet people on festive occasions And the greetings were few but more memorable a...