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New year...




I have been home to Mangan to spend time with family and friends.
Whilst at home I had the privellage to attend an old aunt's funeral.She was ready to be with the Lord which was nice.The pastor preached a matter of fact sermon .
At home I missed Mom's birthday and the carol services due to the constraints at the hospital but was in time for the family christmas dinner.
My sister is got into oil painting and she is doing some great work .This morning she sent us a painting of flowers she had painted with a actual live butterfly hovering on it so she did not need to be complimented for it.
I am back in the campus covering for the juniors who are away preparing to give NEET and one of them awaiting for a new arrival,alternating with Dr Dinesh our resident surgeon.Calls are not busy because it is winters but we do get some sick patients.
I am yet to really sit down and meditate on the new year and the resolutions,,,,surprisingly I feel the need to make one this year.I could touch down in Delhi and meet my sister,thanks to the flight schedules which were haywire due to the fog in the country.
Awaiting the already much delayed flight was quite an education.I could over hear youngsters lambesting the state of the country and yet discuss the UPSC preparations they all seem to be in different stages in.
One of them started the conversation by blaming  the current government for making a mess of everything.There was a momentary silence,a telling  pause, before he clarified that he was a kashmiri brahmin and then all of them relaxed and started lambesting the government together.
We awaited a cool seven hours in the airport,the shops doing brisk business with people doing their breakfast ,lunch and dinner in the food mart but at the end of the day ,all the docile passengers had to say was 'atleast it did not get cancelled.'
As the pilot announced ,the flight got cancelled due to circumstances beyond their control,people were being turned back from the airport.Everyone including the crew were glad to be where they were supposed to be .Nobody wanted to spend the last days of the year in the airport,I suppose.
Today is the 2nd of January and I am yet to sit back and draw a resolution for the new year.At the moment I am just grateful to have a hot meal on the plate and an uninterrupted sleep by God's grace.

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