Things That Happened This Year:

• found my first white hair
• developed wrinkles under my eyes
• now in need a heavy duty night cream
• new, miserable PMS symptoms 
• scabbed my left knee... twice
• fell while running, twice
• general decline in metabolism
• getting less sleep than ever

Ah, I was so young when I started this blog. Treasure your youth, young people.

Ghalib, “If I was destined to endure so much pain...”

Today you won’t be getting a boring, verbose update about my life and/or thoughts—instead, I’m revisiting this blog's original purpose:

Someone posted this couplet from Ghalib on Twitter as a sentiment for 2020 and I quite agree. 

I’m not quite happy with this (especially the English part, where it seems to trail off at the end), but I needed something to do.

I had written a series of posts on the prospect of leaving my home country, and what that meant for me... fortunately for the prospective reader, my plans were cancelled (thanks, pandemic).

It's been an awful year, and I'm one of the lucky ones. 

Hopeful for more opportunities to feel... useful