We went by the routine and saw off one more year - eventful in every sense, life offers events to cherish. Its your pick to celebrate the event or not. Amidst the fireworks from world over that the newsprint present - to the revelers and the quieter lots each style their good bye and welcome moments. And, then on 1st morning you sit and reply to tonnes of whatsapp messages - bulk of which are plain Jane forwards. 2018 for me was a lesson in soaking in and practicing sanity.

Mumbai is feeling more like home now - even a plush apartment in downtown London will not be home unless you decorate the inside and outside with beautiful people. Inside was the maker s gift, but the outside if self choice - and you can control this one part. There are little happiness's everywhere - we allowed this pigeon to built her nest, give birth, rear the kids and fly them away. While we saw the empty nests with bitterness - they came back again to reuse the nests for 2019. Soaking in the sights and sounds of cultural paintings that St Peters-burg, Singapore, Bali, Dubai and Thimphu offered and holding back from reactions to each and everything, express positives in organised blogs, call and talk to people, read the best collections - 2018 has helped me plug on and the switch is still on for 2019. Pick up the racket - no matter how poor you run in the tennis court, swim, run and breathe. Breathe while driving, breathe while walking and breathe while listening.

On listening, have also started listening to the kids talk more - and its surreal to see them talking on events, people and places. They have just started stepping into the world of judgement and have given cues on how I how regular I have to keep listening to them.

2019 - help me be a better human, my choice of people around me should feel happy on hearing / seeing and talking to me.