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Day 364 / 366

Just 2 more blogs to go after this one.

To be honest for the past week or so I have not been sure what to write in these blogs. I think I have been making these blogs for myself than anyone else lately. I don’t have any set topic in mind, I just sit down and try to put whatever there is in my mind on this post and try to arrange it in a way that it’s barely legible.

I stayed up all night yesterday so that I could watch Day 4 of the India-Australia test match. And I am really glad that I did, it was totally worth it. The way Bumrah bowled today was other-worldly. Having grown up in the era where cricket was dominated by the Aussies, you have no idea how much joy it gives me to watch one of our bowlers make their top batsmen look like they are amateurs.

And I’ll probably stay up all night today as well so that I don’t miss a single ball on the final day of the match, which is set to be a nail-biter. But being an ICT fan means that I have a lot of PTSD about situations like these, which is why a part of me is fully expecting India to lose 3–4 wickets in the first session itself.

All of this is totally against what my plans were for this year. I wanted to get my sleep schedule back to normal. I wanted to finish all my pending work and get my shit together. Instead, I stay up all night so that I can watch a test match. And I think it is totally fine. It’s the end of the year for god sake, a year which broke me multiple times. I think I have earned myself this little vacation.