Six Feet Under

Last night, an Elephant can and a little old hermit convinced me that after a Big Bang Theory season 5 marathon, it would perhaps be better to watch something more serious and hence came the decision to watch the critically acclaimed HBO series Six Feet Under which takes a dark comical look at a family owns funeral service business. It seemed only apt that the long wait till the third season of Game of Thrones be satiated by another HBO original show, which does not generally disappoint considering the prior awesome experience with Entourage.

Now, the Opening theme of the show shows a corpse on a stretcher that is being rolled out somewhere in a hospital like environment with a close up shot of the castor wheels.  I guess it is kind of sad that even while watching a dark comedy I was wondering how smoothly the castors roll and how well they were chosen for the application. Later on, they showed a corpse being ID'ed from one of those retractable tables in a morgue. More sadness ensued by the fact that I have chosen bearings for a similar application and wondered if they were designed correctly.

But those design activities were a thing of the past year. An amazing year in retrospect, the only year in living memory where I kept my the-then-new-year-resolution - to maintain an activity log all year round. But also an year where my 14 posts per year superstitious resolution was broken. This was also the year where I thought I had met that someone special who would be "the one" and all that senti crap. But then it turns out she was already married and all hopes were then banked upon the prophesied Apocalypse. Though it would have been fun if the apocalypse had  actually occurred.

But then I guess it is time to learn from past mistakes... and make some new ones. As Neil Gaiman rightly puts it:

 "I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever."

Also, one of the HBR blogs quoted that a new year resolution is like looking into the Mirror of Erised and deliberately working towards achieving our deepest desires. Now the same article recommends us to dream instead of making resolutions since it is the wildest dreams that actually bring about disruptive innovations. But then, the Harry Potter series whence the Mirror of Erised reference is adopted says "it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

Anyways, it is time to look at a new year ahead, a year which is full of promises and promises of surprises. It is time to put past failures down; Six Feet Under.