2020 ! What a year you were!

When 2020 began, we rang in the new year in Hyderabad . We had a real fun night and we didn’t have a curfew or weren't wearing a mask.

On the 1st, we went out for a lovely lunch and I don’t think we were predicting the year ahead. We were planning . The last time I had actually met my family for a great gettogether was Jan 2020.

And then I don’t have a memory of how this year has been . Feb went by and then came March. I remember I was in office when the first covid-19 case was detected in Hyderabad and then it was suddenly Work From Home. I did love the WFH situation . I first started to notice my house and little things around. I know that this phase was a stop and it got us to pay attention to the little things around us .

Then came the video calls with family and friends.

Everyone was on houseparty, until we came across the data breach.

We bonded as people in general.

The pandemic taught us things every single day . From cooking to hacks!

Some of us spent a lot of time going inward. Gyms closed down and home work outs began .

Restaurants closed and swiggy was off. We discovered that home cooking was the best thing. There were days we got fed up of the chores. They were exhausting .

Our lives were impacted and we didn’t know how . The lock down definitely gave some of us fatigue and I think you will agree that this year was something else.

I remember when my friends first visited during the lock down, we were hesitant to hug.

We were far from the human touch. Atleast I was . It wasn’t lonely though because someone like me can live a life of a recluse.But I kept thinking of friends and people who needed a social connection .

This is probably one of the first times in the history of the world this was common human experience.

We survived . We improvised. We loved and we lost .

And now we are here at the threshold of 2021 and we don’t know what to expect.

We are now getting used to the new normal and so this is going to be.

So cheers to our resilience and we should be really proud that we survived 2020.

What a year it was! And here's to a great 2021 .

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