Goodbye 2024

My 365 days of helter-skelter have come to an end. I take a sigh and jot this down after all the hectic activity.

A year not everyone lived the way they wanted to. So many unforeseen events took place, things that I could not envisage. What exactly did I do in 2024 I ask myself in an awe? Maybe I didn’t focus on what is important to me; maybe I’m not even sure what those things are anyway.

I really need to take a minuscule and figure that out before I end up doing this again in 2025 or the last year of my existence here. Sure thing 2024 was a year of mixed sentiments: frustration, strain, disappointment, anger you name it.

In fact this year was more health related but I managed to pull on without any one’s help and reach till this phase through my persistence and resilience, still looking young. Cheers to some who marvel how young I am, maybe that’s what I am fixated on as health is wealth and I will continue to practise what I am doing. At times in life we may have to be narcissistic, and what I always nudge people is help yourself then help others. In terms of resolutions, I don’t keep them as I am not moral at it but I will perceive, be focused, prod and poke when I have to, be tough as the saying goes, “When the going gets tough the tough gets going.” Life is only one. We enjoy it and allow others to enjoy it.

Mathew Litty,

Dubai