Resolutions, yup, I’ve made so many, but is always hard to keep. Few months back, I made a resolution to keep myself, ya know, healthy :D. Being all alone in a hostel, that too in a single room has made waking up ‘early’ in the morning to be one of the hardest tasks. At home, mom or dad or my nieces are my faithful alarm clocks. No matter how many times you “snooze” them, you can’t turn them off, they keep coming back. When I first came to this campus in the year 2009 for a week training, I was in awe of its beauty. I thought to myself if only I had the chance to stay here, I’d be doing so many wonderful things, like staying in the lab 24/7 or jogging around the vast campus having three beautiful lakes inside. And then it struck me. “I should start jogging”. So I started. I had all the time in the world to finish off bath, laundry, quiet time, breakfast, toilet stuffs, broom the room – all after jogging. It felt great. One of my friend joined me later, we went on for a month or so, but exams started approaching, and I couldn't get myself to sleep early (I know, I know.. excuses excuses!) which led me back to square one. I started taking apples, fruit juices and made sure to drink at least four liters of water a day. Consuming apples and fruit juices stopped, trying my best in coping up with the water though. Do I look fit and fine? Nope! As a matter of fact, I’m gaining weight, even though my BMI is 22.3 which is normal (what's yours? :P). Is my skin glowing? Nah! Have my pimples disappeared? Not at all, they re-emerge once in a while. In short, I am now a disorganized undisciplined fat lazy bum!
In our hostel, we, a bunch of girls meet every night to pray. What we usually do is, we sing songs, read ‘Our Daily bread’ and passages from the Bible; share our experiences, share our prayer points and pray for each other. The other night, one of the girls commented that doing all these, we are not living up to it; she said we should put into action, not just getting accustomed with it. Well, in my opinion, I don’t know what I’d be without these girls. Getting to bow my head every night to pray, no matter how good or bad the day may be, has made me lived these past six months without deep regrets. But, maybe she’s right too, maybe we should put in more efforts. And so we came up with a plan last night. Starting from today, we are going to make weekly resolutions. Our first resolution is - read at least two chapters from the Bible every day, for a week. My regular routine is just one which I sometimes rush for the sake of reading. Today, I earnestly read three! And then in the second week, there will be another resolution, like maybe kneeling down while praying, or praising at least one person a day, or no wasting food week, or we can even add waking up early to jog, the list goes on. These are some of the things I have in mind, haven’t discussed it with the girls yet. And whoever finds it useful can keep up with the old resolutions but that’s not mandatory, or else it may pile up, and become a burden. We can experiment ourselves with different kinds of good deeds and keep the ones we want. And I’m hoping this will do me good, to get back on track, be more organized instead of wailing about my bad habits.
And today was, and still is a bad day. The kind of day you find out when things may not turn out the way you planned. The kind of day when you find out that you have been misjudged. To think that you did everything perfect, started off well, reached the lab on time, read the Bible; and still, it’s ending up bad. But then again, maybe it’s for these times that doing something good will help me keep calm, if not for the resolution, I might be crying right now, but I ain’t, and I won’t!
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My BMI is 23. BUT!! (and yes it's a big but) I was checked a few days back by some health something company and they revealed that I have a lot of sub-something fat and that my body age is 36 aaaauuughghgh.
I freaked out majorly. Resolved to stop smoking, start exercising, go to bed earlier, stop snacking and all that. Well, anyway, none of that happened and I'm so fat now that it looks like I no longer have a neck and my eyes have become all squinty and my skin feels tight, not 'in a good way' tight, but in a 'too small for my body' kind of tight.
You still look pretty good to me in photographs, the right amount of curves etc.
And don't cry! Lo haw rawh, we shall gossip and eat and talk about leading a healthier lifestyle :)
@ku2: hey baybeh, am alllll good now :) Big buts should get small right? I wonder what my body age is according to that company. yesh, I come home, hopefully and we train people and live happily ever after :P
Hey there Delilah tih hla kha ka rilru ah a lo lang daih he post ka chhiar hian :)
I am the laziest bum ever. Rushing through my one chapter of the Bible in a night, not knowing the meaning of the word "exercise", not replying to emails and phone calls, and procrastinating (everything) madly like it's going out of style.
But resolutions are good. They are there like a goal, a target to be achieved, and if you are one of those overachieving persons they are a great help in getting what you want. The downside though is most of us do not keep our resolutions and feel guilty for the rest of the year/week/month/day. I gave up making resolutions and rely instead on the last minute hehehe :P
@aduhi: hey there Delilah, what's it like in Hyderabad city, are you eating hyderabadi biryani, and tonite you look so pretty yes you do, I swear its trueeee :D.
I procastinate too, a lot! I suck at last minutes. Well, best part about this resolution is, its just for a week, and we're doing it in group, so lets hope I can atleast keep these weekly resolutions :)
Me too, I am so lazy. I read the entire Bible from page one to the last page just once every week. I can't do more than once. Ka thatchhe tawp.
And nice resolution sis. Am very proud of you.
Am going for my health check-up tomorrow so will tell you my BMI then :)
@kima: so so so..whats your BMI? so so so! report back! :P
My BMI's 28.7 :) But I'll have to go back to the hospital tomorrow to collect my entire test result plus consultation.
heeeee! somebody's gotta lose weightaa! :D
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