It has been a year already since the pandemic-enforced lockdown changed our lives forever. We learned to obey rules, stay indoors, work from home, make the best use of resources when none were available outside, discovered hidden strengths, became more empathetic of the have-nots, were hit badly ourselves, but learnt to swim in the deep waters we were thrown into, figured out how to be educated online, found out just how little we need to survive, lost dearly loved ones to a disease no one knew how to properly handle, were unable to attend funerals, celebrate new life and birthdays, weddings and anniversaries and lost and found friends through our best resource through this all - social media. There have been no other 12 months in our lives that have been this meaningful or life-altering.

As the lockdown eased, we figured out the best way to get to and from our workplaces, the more ingenious and desperate among us resorting to crooked means to get on out-of-bounds public transport.