A personal Assessment of 2019

If you have to look back at 2019 and take stock of your greatest achievement or loss what would that look like? To know which will make its ways on the top in terms of all your greatest achievement can be a difficult exercise, and for some very personal too. The challenge to do an analysis like this is that for every individual the parameters and how they define their achievements and losses are sometimes relative and varied.

Generally, people count their ‘havings’ and ‘possessions’ as greatest achievements. Anything that has a monetary value gives people a temporary sense of satisfaction. In human standards people find meaning in life in what they possess. The more stuff they have, they more it possesses them. Young people consider the year to be successful and a year of fun by the amount of time they were able to hang around with friends, partying and making some money in the course of time.

Usually the understanding of achievements is confined to abundance. Abundance in things and material. Little do all know that what disorients people is not the scarcity but abundance. Nicholoas Taleb American essayist and scholar puts it beautifully “Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.”. If you look around at the madness created in our nation, it is not from the people of the middle class or below poverty line, but from people who are tycoons and the famous making a mess in the country with their atrocities and deception. What does that say?

Leonard Woolf, the great British man of letters, husband of Virginia Woolf, the essayist, says, “It seems like I’ve done perfectly useless work for the last five to seven years.”. “Meaning is found in something you create, experience or change.” Or, “Meaning is found in something you do, someone you love, and something you hope for.”.

Relationship with God, I mean the personal relationship, is the greatest achievements because that transforms us to be a better person God intended us to be. May God help you to unfold the purpose of God in our lives. The Bible says “What does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life?”. Make your life worthy of living and spread kindness and humaneness everywhere and that can happen when you accept not His teaching alone but consider building a meaningful relationship. Wishing you a great year ahead.

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