Goodbye 2020, You Taught Us Well
A year ends and a year begins. And that is how 'Time cooks all beings in its cauldron' (Mahabharata). 2020 is not a year that any one of us is likely to forget in a hurry...or even, forget at all for that matter. For most of us, time and age blur and blend many years into vague memories. We sometimes remember years gone-by only because of special events, milestone celebrations or heartbreaking losses. For the most part, the days just seamlessly flow into weeks, months and years and that is how it was till now. But the year 2020 made us all pause in our tracks, re-evaluate, re-centre, re-learn and re-focus. In all that was happening, the year also held a mirror and revealed a bit about ourselves. What we saw was not always what we wanted to but we did learn a thing or two about ourselves which otherwise would have gone unobserved and unexamined in the flurry of activities that dominates our lives. We began 2020 with a lot of plans and as the year unfol...