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Goodbye 2020!

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Finally, we are here! The end of 2020. What a year this was!

Needless to say, when I wrote a post welcoming 2020 at the end of last year, I had no fricking idea this is how it was going to turn out. So much so that I’m now apprehensive about writing a post to welcome 2021 this time.. 😆

So, today’s post is just a quick look back at the year that was.

If you are thinking what else could be the highlight of the year but Coronavirus, let me tell you, despite that looming, omnipresent threat, it was not the highlight of the year for me.

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Welcome 2020!

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So, this is going to be my last post… Don’t worry, I’m not going anywhere; it’s just going to be my last post of this year. 😉

I find endings to be bitter-sweet. I guess most people feel the same way, no? These endings could be of something as trivial as a vacation or a year, or of things that mean much more – like the end of a phase of your life, a relationship, etc.

Ultimately, the end signifies something that was with you, that was in your life – was your life – for a while, and now that thing won’t be there any more. You have memories of it – good or bad, but important memories nonetheless. That association with the thing that’s ending has left an imprint on your life. You are the person you are because of it, to some extent.

And it is true that the next chapter can begin only after the previous one ends. You can’t appreciate the beauty of the mountains while you are enjoying the sun on the beach! 🙂

I had a good year overall. Grew personally and professionally. Had some important new experiences. Wish I had done better with my writing, but, now, I’m just being greedy. 😀

So, yeah. It’s sad when something good comes to an end. But that end also brings with itself possibilities – possibilities of even better things. A clean slate. A fresh start. The chance to do things not done before; to experience things never experienced before. To see things, never seen before. And importantly, to even see the same things, like we haven’t seen them before.

So, on that note, let’s wrap up this year with hope in our hearts for an even better time in the coming one. 

Wish all the dear readers of this quaint little blog, and to everyone else too, a very, very Happy New Year!! 

See you on the other side.. 🙂

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What Begins, Must End

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Apart from this blog, I sometimes also write in an actual journal, a diary. I find that sometimes, you just need that physicality to writing – the sound and touch of paper, holding and moving the pen, the rhythm of the hands, instead of the mechanical “clickity-clack” of typing and staring at a white screen. And well, some thoughts are too private even for a “personal blog”. 😉

I don’t do it often – just a couple of entries a year. Sometimes even fewer. So, I’d been using that same diary for the last many, many years. But as I was writing in it this time, I realized that I had reached the end of it.

As I neared the end, I wanted to write a “goodbye” message in the little space that I had left (yeah, I’m “weird” that way), which I did. But as I began writing, I had an amusing and pleasant thought, one that I think (more like “hope”), some of you might find some beauty in. So, here I am, reproducing that final, short diary entry below:

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And just like that I’ve reached the end of this journal – a journey that began many, many years ago, with a thoughtful gift. Now, there aren’t many pages left in this diary, for another one of life’s journeys.

A little more space to continue writing would have been nice, but we don’t control how many pages we are given, and where our story ends. I guess I’d never really be ready for it to be over. So many stories left untold, incomplete. But not much that I can do about it.

Sometimes, you get a chance to wrap up your story in time, when you know the end is near, but even then, it’s not easy letting go. You wish you could continue in some way or another; just refusing to let go.

But, the end approaches, and it’s time to say, “Thank You! And Goodbye.” 🙂

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