January Of Renewal and Redemption

“Sometimes acknowledging your erroneous ways is the first step to redemption” - Ravi Shastri

Growing up I had never been an ardent admirer of the month of January due to my naïve, delirious mind noticing only the drudgery of existence that it would invariably ring in. The absence of holidays and significant Indian festivals, furthermore, contributed to the lacklustre experience. But as time flitted past, I, too, understood that at some point of time or the other, everybody reaches an age of revelation and realisation, a moment of epiphany when we chase simplicity carefully concealed in the garb of an elusive dream.

I know not when I came to be of such an age or what catapulted its arrival but January no longer seems to be bleak or decadent to me. The season of winter, that seems to be a poetic ode to melancholy, now resonates with the triumphant emotion of transformation. January shows how a season of despondency can house in its heart a chance of change through new beginnings. Though winter’s true visage finds revelation only during the final few days of the year, January seems to be a benevolent end to the wintry storms of despair.

In the canvas of my eyes, January has been christened as an odd pearl that ignites in the minds of people a beacon of hope and new beginnings, acting as an opportunity for redemption accompanied by a choice which we are free to act upon as we wish.

Eklavya Das
Class VII-A
Creator House