The Shy Medic

This article has been lying in my drafts since December. I remembered it a few days ago when I had one of my insomnia episodes. *** We are almost two months into the year 2021, and even though we're all trying to pretend the previous year didn't happen by giving it all sorts of camouflages- cue panasonic, panoramic, pantomiming among the myriad of hilarious labels I came across on the internet- 2020 did happen. And it changed the universe. From my study table, whilst I wait for my next (online) class, this was my 2020... January-  Exams and all that. If I saved a penny for every time I whined about having exams in January since the past few years, I would be close to being a millionaire. Dragging my wet boots through the snow when the sky had barely cleared to write an exam will never, ever be my favourite memory of January. Once, I had something that kept me going- my flight back home. This year was another one that made me complain less because I was going