When you walk down the shopping street and see a variety of products on display, do we end up buying all of them? There are some products that we are not interested in. There are some products we wonder who buys them at all. And then there are some that we are fascinated with.

Even from the ones that we are fascinated with, we end up picking only a chosen few.

Similarly, we human beings are such products on display. There are impressionable minds that are out there shopping. By impressionable minds, I don’t necessarily mean the young ones. It includes everyone. Depending on the context and time and space of their lives, they will look for people with certain attributes. The ones that they like to hang around with are the products that they are fascniated with.

So our words and actions offer choices. The minute the impressionable minds start to make their choices based on our words and actions, we’ve turned ‘Influencer’. Hence, it is very important to use our words and actions very responsibly.

Mind you, the onus of making the choice and the responsibility of results from that choice always stays with the respective individual. But it does have an impact on the ‘Influencer’ as well. If the person is successful, our brand value as an ‘influencer’ goes up. If they do not succeed, it could have a different result.

So who are we really? We are simply choices on offer. Whether we stay on display or get picked up will be a direct result of the ‘Choices’ we make. Wishing you all the best choices in 2020.

The “New Year’ comes in with all the excitement
Almost like a teenaged lover

January woos it with renewed energy
Coaxes it to go ahead and discover
Jogs along and works out hard
But the romance fizzles out and it is all over

Along comes February
Blessed by St. Valentine
The wooing falls ‘short’ of expectations
And it literally runs out of time

March marches in with a frenzy
Of colours and the warmth of Holi
Turns out it is pure infatuation
And the idea of matrimony seems unholy

Then ‘Springs’ April with the ultimate symbol of Love
The Fragrance of the colourful flowers
Midway realizes the pledged allegiance
To the other calendar(s) and higher powers

A bit dejected and feeling the heat
Wondering what may happen with ‘May’
The exhaustion and humidity
Makes the romance a damp squib anyway

With a parched feeling
It longingly looks at June
Does bring in some respite
With light showers and a melody to croon

July literally “washes” those feelings away
Like a bully OR almost a goon
Floods all over the place with overwhelming emotions
Throwing everything and everyone out of tune

The August person brings in
The Remover of obstacles
With a serene and saintly connect
And Love too but it feels all ‘Paradoxical’

September charges in the much needed change
A festive fervour that dances away into the nights
Causing one too many a love bites
Along with a debate of wrongs and rights

October and November engages in fights
For rights over the festival of Lights
But they develop cold feet
They fall short of being the Shining Knight

After all the courting and attempts
Memory flashes and fades away like an ember
Almost like a pre-decided swift action
The Year grows old and simply elopes with December