The Day Not Because It Is A New Year

Dear Diary,

Even if TODAY is not 1 January 2009,
I promise (myself) to,

1. Read at least two new books a week
(have started reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' Living To Tell The Tale this afternoon.
Well, before falling into deep afternoon nap, that is..)

2. Reply to SMS within 2 hours and respond to e-mails / Facebook messages within 2 days
(those who have my number and have been writing to me KNOW how disappointing I am
at replying in appropriate time, or at replying at all! I always THOUGHT I'd take my time in replying
so that I can reply in lengthy and more thoughtful repartees but, .....)

starting from today.

They might seem like the simplest of things to do and
I might be the only person reading this blog who is not doing so
but even landslide starts from ignorance and yes, procrastination.

























So I choose to stop procrastinating
(at least to the simplest two listed things)
today,

not because it is a new year,
not because (almost) everyone else every blogger posts theirs,
not because it won't be a good year without resolutions,

BUT
because changes can should start anytime,
because to better my nation, I have to better myself first,
and I choose to change and better myself,
today.

If not TODAY, then WHEN.
If not US, then WHO.
We are the one we have been waiting for.

By the way, I preach the last three lines out loud
at the end of my every yoga session,
mostly with the intention - to remind MYSELF.