A whole lifetime or a blur????

• Started with a great bang & promise.
• Got the best surprise of love in many years – Got proposed.
• Small trip with my best buds.
• A dhamaal wedding ceremony at house.
• Got promoted at work.
• Pandemic Hit
• Enjoyed the first month of lockdown with silent streets aka calm work days at home.
• First drastic salary cuts 🙁
• Found two traits of humans-
  • When upset they forget all good times
  • When happy they forget all past crimes
• Started getting panic attacks ( I think that’s what they were)
• Got overloaded with stress.
• Major life plans altered.
• Unhappiness synched to the core.
• Distanced from everyone possible.
• Closed all social media channels – they started giving anxiety.
• The ones who cared, never left my side.
• Stopped writing.
• Learned to share the work load at home as no house help.
• Fell sick.
• Sleepless nights reappeared.
• Confided.
• Comforted by the love.
• Started studying again.
• Many long distance online WhatsApp video calls.
• Exciting things started happening at work.
• Birthday got celebrated at zoom with extended families.
• Started picking up self by small habit changes.
• Incorporated Ayurvedic lifestyle changes.
• Started getting job calls.
• Got rejected at a job as I was too customer centric, lol.
• Got selected at a job as I was too customer centric, hmmm.
• New challenges brought new zeal.
• First baby of family arrived in our lives – became bua.
• Got Covid.
• Celebrated Diwali with fever, cough and bad food during Covid.
• Got kickass Diwali present from boss.
• Recovered from Covid.
• Reconnected with friends – over calls.
• Felt post Covid weakness.
• Best friend got married with best guy ever.
• Went beyond 500 meter for first time in 9 months to attend the wedding.
• Read 5 books. Fav – Detox Diet and the little book of hygge.
• Listened to many podcasts. Fav – Radhika Gupta at bearbicep.
• Watched unbelievable numbers of sitcoms / movies. Fav – Schitt’s Creek, Sense 8, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Brittany runs a marathon.
• Spent many many hours talking with mom.
• Granny fell ill.
• Mom’s slow Covid recovery.
• Sleepless nights over families health.
• Realized self care is of utmost important when taking care of family members health.
• Enjoyed moments of blissful afternoons with chai & books in balcony during week offs.
• Started workout – left – started again.
• Met some wonderful people in new job.
• Finally decided to start 2021 with a new promise.
• Not chasing rainbows this time – rather cooking happiness here