Last week, when we all celebrated Diwali, I was proud at how much I had accomplished. Working, socialising, hustling, and creating content — all the while having my period. Mercury and Venus are also in retrograde — if you get it, you get it (they go direct today, thank god). I felt like Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character from Sacred Games when he said, “Kabhi kabhi lagta hai ki apun hi bhagwan hai”.

But then this week came by, and I feel wiped out. I am drained, and even talking seems to be asking a lot of me. It may seem that I have been trying too hard to make the last few weeks of the year count, when I should use them to recalibrate and integrate.