We don’t remember days, we remember moments !
We don’t remember days, we remember moments – Pavese, Cesare ( 1908-1950), Italian, Poet, Critic, Novelist, and Translator 2011 had many such moments. Beginning of the year, I commented upon the start of the new decade bringing new promises along with it. Even though, in general, 2011 was a very tough year, especially for people connected with the finance world, I still hold on to my earlier comment. Each year when we look back and evaluate, we end up looking at our failures, at things that turned out contrary to our expectations or liking. And what that inferno of thought does, is further depresses us, building a kind of negative spiral, which engulfs and ends up strangulating us. Unless one makes a conscious attempt to stay positive, it’s very difficult to remain so given the surrounding ecosystem is so much volatile and uncertain. The coming decade will be a decade with ‘new normal’ - the earlier extreme / tail positions becoming the norm of the day. So let me sit back, relax a...