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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
With Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd)
former Chief of Indian Army Staff
and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT
For copies of this book see footer of this message
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MONDAY MUSE (3 January 2011)
RESOLUTION
‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ - Mahatma Gandhi
On the threshold of New Year, at our family gets together, the children
arranged the activities. One activity was for everyone to pen down, at the
stroke of midnight, personal statements on two charts. One was a Wish-List; the
other was a list of Resolutions. A few seniors questioned the distinction
between the two, but the children had got it right!
One may wish to be healthier and fitter, but it would be better to resolve to
make the lifestyle changes necessary for the transformation. One may wish for
peace, harmony, friendships, relationships, success, worthy causes... but it
would be better to resolve to create and participate in processes to make the
wish happen.
What we wish for and what we resolve to do are as different as just craving for
a desired destination and creating a road map to get there.
A wish is just a thought, a dream. A resolve is a commitment, a mission to
actualise the dream. A wish is an imagination. A resolve has to be real. A
resolve is about making the necessary choices and backing them with earnest
resoluteness.
Hence, while we put together wish lists for ourselves, our families and our
communities, let’s be better at moving beyond desire. Let’s resolve to make the
wish happen by our commitment, determination and persistence. May our wishes be
well meaning and backed by the resolve to be the change that we want to see in
our world!
Let’s BE BETTER at making resolutions for action
Wishes fly only with wings of steadfast dedication!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Goa, India.
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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
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