Late wishes

I sent the email below (a New Year wishes email) last 1st of January to a special group of people: the Congress Committee of IC 2005, the conference we organized in India.

Somebody actually liked it: now it's time to share with everyone brave enough to read this blog from time to time...

Stop it!!

Seriously, stop it... how could you possibly wish me a 2006 better than 2005?!
You know what?.. I wish you something different...

I mean... look at my year just passed:
In 2005 I have been travelling in 10 countries and living in 3 of them; I discovered new cultures and new things I could never suspect... I visited places full of history and natural beauties... I have seen rich and poor living together... However I got depressed because sometime people just could not understand me, I got frustrated because things didn't work MY way, because the world is so unjust...

How many new friends can I count in 2005? Oh many... I met hundreds of people, wonderful people: I had enriching chats and learned so much from them all... and as it happens with every person I really care of, they also have irritated me and made me suffer... they are friends! Often it has been time to say "See you later" secretly hoping that isn't a goodbye... I miss them all...

Travelling and meeting people has made me revaluate once again the beauty of the place I come from, made me proud of it... The more I dream of travelling the more I miss home, my family and the friends I grew up with!

Love... I met some girls this year too: couple of them have been dismissed and have cried for me... couple have dismissed me, but I never cried for them! In some case platonic long distance relations have existed and maybe perished on the way... Oh, yeah, Love with capital L has baffled me this year... God knows how much pain that has saved me... and I know how much pain that has caused me!

In 2005 I saw my father crying: it was when I left home last time... I kept missing my sisters (for whom I would kill!) and thinking of the relation with my mother, to whom I wanted to be so close when she lost her brother... but why the other Love, the one that lasts a lifetime and after, is so difficult to express?

In 2005 I have changed work... from HR to Finance: so much learning, both so interesting... but I still wonder and worry what the heck I want to do in my future career!

I have been doing new activities, re-started old habits... I read new books... but I could have done more activities, read more... or I could have spent more time with people and real life rather than novels!

And, in an experience including almost the whole above, 56 people from all over the world, a huge project, and incredible country have been the outstanding event of my 2005!!

You see my point, I hope... how could you possibly wish me a better year for the one to come?!

You know what?... here is what 2006 should be all about: joy and sadness, challenges with solutions and problems without, love and suffering, decisions and regrets, laugh and tears, smiles and depression, learning and mistakes, kisses and slaps... anything, for better or for worse, which would simply make you feel alive...

Yeah, that's all I wish you!