Birdsong Mornings

These are unprecedented times. The world has come to a halt. A full stop. And who would have thought. 2020 was almost being celebrated like 2000 had been - not in terms of the Y2K kinda frenzy but like a magical number year. But come 2020, and the world's a different place already. We obviously aren't prepared for something like this. Who would be? And ohhhh there is tension, anxiety, fear, ambiguity and what not around CORONA VIRUS. How will COVID unfold. Every morning people world over are waking up with just one question in mind - whats the count today. Every call, every interaction is only around the spread of COVID. Whatsapp is buzzing non stop with more morbid articles, more fake news, more disturbing possibilities and conspiracy theories. Its exhausting! Maybe we will survive COVID, maybe we wont. Maybe Thanos will win eventually, with 50% of our world population projected to be affected by this virus. But one thing I know, we need to be our own AVENGERS and help ...

There has been a silver lining too... you know to me having taken this unprecedented break from work. I kind of ticked off a couple of items off my bucket list. From my non-existent bucket list. To think of it, I have never made a bucket list - is there nothing I wish to achieve? No impossible dreams that I want becoming possible? Oh well, that's some food for thought and maybe for another blogairy. That's a Blog Diary. And I just came up with it. Is there already someone else who's coined this word? Google doesn't seem to suggest so. Is my genius beginning to finally shine? Though in all honesty, its not really an ingenious word - this is a blog and a personal diary too - wola! Thats a blogiary! Genius. But I digress. I started with the silver linings of my break time. I've already made a big deal of the biggest achievement of it all on Facebook, my primary social life - I finally learnt driving. I mean, of course its because of automatic cars and that I had to...

So here's the thing. I had been a workaholic for the last 16 years. That is ever since I started working. Actually no, that's not true - I have been a workaholic for the last 10 years, ever since I got serious about work. And boy, did I get serious about work. Its last 6 years actually - that would be most precise. I don't know where it came from - the madness to excel at work. Maybe it was a new challenge thrown at me. Maybe it was because like Sheryl Sandberg says in her book "Lean In", we girls tend to feel the pressure of proving ourselves way more than men. Maybe that's what it was for me when I joined Grocery retail 6 years ago. Maybe it was the fact that I didn't really know much about this part of the world when I got in 6 years ago. Or maybe it was just because I was tired of being a marketer for a decade that when a new opportunity came my way, I just threw myself right in. Whatever the reason might have been, I worked my butt off and how!...