Welcome to the year 2021. Wishing you readers a happy new year. It could be said that last year was not a happy year, but there is much to be grateful for. After the year we have just had, there is a deeper realization that life is in fact a precious gift.

It’s June and I haven’t written in months. Six months to be precise. I haven’t written since the beginning of the year. Long before the corona virus hit and we knew it was a pandemic here to stay, a kind of lethargy had stolen over me. A kind that makes one desert the mundane activities that bring them joy. It was perhaps an omen for how the year will take shape, but I brushed it off as a writer’s block or a lack of inspiration which beclouds a creative every now and then and was nothing to fret about. But it turned out to be in fact a foreboding, an…

As I pen down my last post for the year, I can’t help but think about my readers, and with a grateful heart, I say thank you. For some of us, 2019 has been a memorable year. We experienced a roller coaster of emotions, mostly relationship related. We experienced great joy and great sadness, fulfillment and disappointment, love and heartbreak. And then for some of us, love again. As for me, I was found, and I found myself, which makes 2020 a much-anticipated year. I look forward to exploring my newly discovered self. There are some life events that are beyond our power, some that we cannot undo and some…

Reflecting on past relationships, I asked myself, did they ever love me? Did they pretend to love me? Were they confused too, thinking they loved me but actually never did? Or did they know from the start that they did not love me, but still went ahead and deliberately hoodwinked me into believing they did? These questions, I pondered as in lay in bed one September morning thinking about the past 3 years my life and how it has gone through a number of relationships that are today no more. How could love do that to you? I wondered. When I think about what they did, I just can’t wrap…