2020 - A Year In Review

2020 has been the most crazy year dominated by pandemic. Our lives changed overnight with sudden lockdown declarations and complete WFH lifestyle. What was considered a mere days of caution has now become our routine. For people with illnesses, this year has been tough with the constant danger of exposure to covid, especially when they are already getting treated in a hospital. Despite this never ending gloomy situation or probably because of that, the focus for many of us has shifted from trivial things to actual priorities - health and family.

2020 - A Year In Review

My initial plan for this year was to tick as many bucket list items as possible and write more instead of just reading. By the mid of March, remote working started because of pandemic and with that many of my bucket list items automatically became unattainable, as I couldn't step out. Even with all that going on, I was happy to be home and I tried many weird experiments and new things - polyphasic sleep, learning to draw, home makeover, coding and writing(with many breaks). But soon this year turned awful with family health issues and dealing with those amidst the pandemic. I realized that you don't really have to push yourself to grow up, when the situation demands and when there's no other option, you automatically grow up overnight. It is still quite scary and I am just waiting for things to turn around. 

I tried NaNoWriMo twice in July and November, but I couldn't hold on to them much longer - again because of so many things going on at personal front.  I have also tried coding for quite some time before breaking all streaks - this led to the revival of the tech blog with 42 new posts.

This blog had 50 posts this year including this one, I missed posting thrice because of personal emergencies. I intended to post at least 12 short stories - one per month, but they amounted to 10 stories only.

• Bucket List : Ideas and Inspiration
• 10 Short Stories : Welcome To Earth, Human - A Short Story, The Curious Case Of The Disappearing Stars - Short Story, When The Mask Falls Off - Short Story, The Ringing Bells - A Short Story, The Cherry Blossoms - A Short Story,  The Accidental Guest - Short Story, The Dream Hatcher - A Short Story,Posthumous Brain - A Short Story,A New Friend - Short Story , The Gods - A Short Story
• Challenges : 52 Books In A Year: Reading Challenge (2019), 30 Day Challenges - The Ultimate List, I Slept For 4 Hours Per Day For A Month - My Polyphasic Sleep Journey
• Open When Letters : Open When You Had A Bad Day , Open When You Need Someone To Talk To , Open When You Are Sad,  Open When You Feel Lonely,  Open When You Want To Buy Me A Gift.
• Intermittent Fasting : How I Lost 5 KGs Weight Without Exercise 
• Fun posts : What I Learnt From A Week Of WFH, 50 Fun Things To Do At Home , 50 Fun And Silly Things To Do In This Monsoon , 30 Things We Do That Makes Us Question Our Own Sanity , 32 Subtle Ways To Insult People , 40 Ways To Sabotage Your Own Life
  
• Lockdown : 10 Best Sitcoms To Binge In This Lock Down , The Flipside Of The Lockdown
• Learning new things: Hobby Can Be An End In Itself, New-ness and Brain : Fighting The Inertia And Comfort Zone, Career And More In 10,000 hours and 20 hours!, Learn To Draw For Beginners - How and Why?, Streak - Don't Break The Chain,  50 Simple And Easy Productive Things To Do, Vision Board Ideas and Inspiration,  Side Quests - Why Small Projects Are Important
  
• Health : Fragile Life, Health and Family - The Things That Actually Matter,  Heart - Stents and Complications
  
• TV series lessons : Life Lessons From Bojack Horseman, 30 Life Lessons From Suits
• Minimalism : Minimalism - What and Why?, Declutter Your Home - Checklist And Challenges, Before You Buy : Questions To Ask For A Minimalistic Lifestyle
  
• Misc : When Mid-life Crisis Hits You Way Before Mid-life, Drifting and Looping Through Life,  Coffee Time - "Me" Time, Know Thyself - Who Are You?,  When You Feel Overwhelmed
  

Hoping the best for 2021 and hopefully the bad days and the pandemic's worst effects end with this year. 

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