For the longest time I have been wondering how to restart my writing regime without seeming awkward about yet another post that didn’t talk about how I had lost the element to write. A lot of things have happened, and I’m still absorbing most of the changes but I think whatever happens is for the best. I moved to a new city and I’m living alone. I have yearned for this to happen ever since I had known and wanted freedom. Ironically, I didn’t know that I wasn’t prepared for this change. I tumbled and fell down a number of times initially, ran back home because I was a 25-year-old baby who missed her mommy.  It’s funny because I have always dreamt about living alone and managing things on my own. I always wanted to take care of my own shit and now when this happened, when I really got a chance to prove, not to others but to myself that I deserved to be here, I was willing to let go of this golden opportunity because I was afraid of the future. I was afraid to acknowledge that I was on my own. I was afraid to take responsibility of myself. Perhaps, I was just afraid to step out of my comfort zone, the cocoon that I had created around myself for the past 25 years. Three months out of the cocoon and life is giving me new experiences everyday and to be brutally honest, not with you but with myself, I am enjoying every bit of it. I feel my spirits renewed with each morning as I wake up and plan my day. Just to let you know, I am pursuing PhD in English Literature and I feel as if it’s the best thing that has ever happened to me! (Ignore the superlative, I’m generally high on adrenaline these days). Not in terms of how it affects my career, but in terms of allowing me to live my life from the start. As a woman, and most importantly, as an unmarried Indian woman, it is very important for us to step out of our comfort zones and explore the limitless world that surrounds us. If anyone tells you otherwise, you may just listen to them or you might ask them to fuck off because you were born in this world to live in it, not to be protected and saved for death. Learn to pull your shit together and take decisions that matter to you because that is what you are going to do for the rest of your life. Most importantly, that is what you were born to do!