Simple Resolutions

Quite a lot of countries, like the UK, Canada and India start their financial year only in March and not January. Karnataka, my birth state has its traditional new year usually occurring between March and April.

Come to think of it, March is an interesting time of the year to kick-start, or at least think about starting, a new page of a new year. In my opinion, this is when the commercialized tropes of New Year resolutions have all faded away by March, with none of your friends, family, society, or even your pet gorilla, chasing you about your new year resolutions. What is left is only the distilled form of what truly matters to you!

My resolutions are seemingly simple and not too taxing, in my opinion:

• Get my German Führerschein (driver's license) by the end of the year.
• Learn to swim, or at least diligently and earnestly try. The goal here is to enjoy swimming in a water source that is not too shallow but not too deep, without my fellow humans being concerned about my dear life.
• Update my blog 12 times a year, from March 2023 to March 2024. More on this below.
• Cook more often, since I am privileged to have a pretty nice kitchen. Also, my mother pestered me sufficiently to take a pressure cooker for rice with me on my way back to Germany. This thing makes it seriously easy to focus on the main dish rather than wonder about treating rice like a side dish.

I will update this blog at least 12 times per year. It will be trilingual, and the first draft post will be in English, as the impact of British colonialism still apparently lingers on in the language that I think in my head. (Or maybe it's because for the last 5 years in Germany, English has been the de-facto communication language until my German really picked up.) I will update the German and the Kannada slightly later, but by hand without using AI or Google Translate, in order to improve my fluency in these two languages.