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Affection, blessed, captivated, delighted, excited. That’s a heady cocktail which will want you to get back to it again and again. I won’t want it to be one event but a journey. I at times feel I lack the ability to really relish a victory and then I also don’t really get down and out easily. I think that’s what that line from Rudyard Kiplings ‘IF’ said, something to the effect ‘if you treat success and failure, both as imposters that they actually are’. Okay let me google and get the exact words “ If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster     And treat those two impostors just the same;” Getting them all in one go. Wow, that’s tough to think but I think that is the moment when I am on a walk and a motivating song gets me into a jog and slowly I get into a faster sprint ….It's not the legs carrying the body, it's as if the spirit has given wings to body - i't s floating on pure esctasy.   Yeah I feel alive and blessed ready to take on life as it...

Yes, few years or decades down the line you will be talking of living through the lockdown - The Great CORONA pandemic days. Experts are equating this with the Spanish Flu which was more than a century ago. It definitely beats any situation that humanity has faced since I was born.  So, focus on doing things that you can share in your later years, maybe with a bit of pride and happiness. Complete lockdown and isolation that too for a longish period is nightmarish. To cater to the joke mills – kids’ lockdown with parents … groan. The spouse having to suffer you day in and out – groan. Thank god the net is still working, that can keep us connected to what all we don’t really have a direct role in – a distraction we have learnt to live with - groan. So, please don’t just live through a forced lockdown - distracted. Own it with the seriousness it deserves. We are not sure how long this is going to last. 14 days is the lowest reasonable figure! Plan how you want to li...