This one entry may be a bit personal; nonetheless I would like to share it with you folk out there. I had taken a much needed day off from work yesterday and had gone to visit my sister who stays on the outskirts of the city. She stays in an apartment complex far from the maddening horns and sounds of autos and buses and whatnot. There was a wonderful view of the mountains from the 6th floor, where she lives, and I could see a huge piece of uncultivated land from where I was sitting in the balcony.The place was absolutely serene.

I figured that this is as good a place as any to maybe sit back for a bit and do some much needed introspection.Of late it would seem that the days have gone by so fast, and this has been particularly true since I have joined residency, that there have been times when 9 months have elapsed without my even noticing it!

As fate would have it, I had brought a novel with me to read and pretty soon I told myself that I would spend some alone time later, once I was done with the novel. Night turned into day turned into afternoon and lo! behold it was 5 pm in the evening and I had to get back to the city,and most of the time while I was there I was reading the book. I did manage to read a good novel, but I didn't do what I had set out to do, which was take stock of things such as they are in my life and see how I could improve (trust me, I have ten things I can state at random that I need to work on).

Silently cursing myself as I was heading back to the hospital, I realized that these moments don't need to happen at a particular time, or place, or under a particular set of circumstances. It can happen right here, right now. And you're only fooling yourself if you wait for a particular event, or place or person to come across you and say "It's time, my friend." I know I have.