Our second pandemic year has just passed. Suddenly, I remembered one particular quote that Gretchen Rubin used in her landmark book, “The Happiness Project”. The days are long but the years are short. Spot on, I have to say. Like how did the past two years fly by that fast…

2020. A year when losses seem to be normal. A year that we are all tempted to simply cancel and regard as if it didn’t happen. That period in global history when the systemic inconsistencies and inefficiencies of governments and its officials were further exposed. A year without redemption at…

…and 2016 too (because I was too distraught to write anything last year) — Writing year-end notes has always been part of my system, long before people actually termed it as New Year’s Eve Essay Writing Contest. …