Happy New Year 2021 : Old tears and renewed hopes

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Welcome back, one and all! Let me at first wish all of you a very Happy New Year 2021. May the coming year bring us a reason to hope, to smile and to cherish.

So, another year goes by, as each one of us begin to weave a new fabric of renewed joy and hope : not only individually, but also as a society. Last year, the wretched virus (COVID-19 will be a wretched virus for me, forever) attacked the fabric, leaving many tears in it. Let's hope that this year, we can keep this fabric intact, and can keep our memories embedded in it, by the time we have to bid goodbye to 2021. We will weave this fabric with the finest thread on Earth. The thread is not available anywhere, save the core of our heart. 

My maternal grandpa today shared a poem of his with me, in relation to the new year being happy. I would like to share it with all of you:-

বিষ নিয়ে বিশ এসেছিল হেথা
তাকে বিদায় জানাতে
নাই কোন ব্যাথা।
এবার এসেছে নতুন একুশ
জীবন সবার
থাকে যেন খুশ।

(Translated, in prose form : 2020 came to us to inject its venom into our lives. So, we do not have any regrets in bidding goodbye to it. Now, here comes 2021. Let's hope that it makes everyone happy.)

This poem is quite relevant to the current situation, and echoes the thought which all of us have in our minds right now.

I don't want to make this post of mine too long. So, goodbye for now, and Happy New Year to all of you once again.

Take care. Goodbye! 

P.S.:- I should have posted it on 1st January. Anyway....

Comments

Gargi said…
বাহ্,বেশ ভালো হয়েছে।
4 January 2021 at 12:35
Unknown said…
Excellent written
6 January 2021 at 19:30
Bimales said…
Nice expression
6 January 2021 at 19:32
Aishik Bandyopadhyay said…
Thank you very much :)
7 January 2021 at 11:31
Unknown said…
চমৎকার লেখা।
8 January 2021 at 00:18
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