In retrospect, it seems like 2018 has been the dreamiest year; it felt like going down the rabbit hole and back. My mind is still in its opaque state for me to figure out, what I should be feeling about the trip. Quite “trippy” indeed.

The events that took place and the people who came in and went out of my life in this year, should define how my 2018 was, but when I think about it, it’s all about the feelings I have experienced. Those feelings were almost always followed by a decision, which in every case then was the causation of a new feeling. It was all like a domino effect, a chain reaction in progress.

What I realized is that this phenomenon called “life” cannot be ceased until I am deceased; intervening in that natural process without a divine support can in fact, affect virtually everything around me -especially, the people I care for and love the most. How pathetically inter-dependent we are! Maybe, this is why the two most sought things by human beings are non-existent in essence and effect – “independence” is a unicorn and “truth,” a fire-breathing dragon.

There are no cheat-codes or shortcuts. There are only challenges ahead and ladders to the next level. Still, I want to play this game out with the one life I got, to see the end credits. What can be more “liberating” than genuinely unveiling the “ultimate fact”?