{"id":4465,"date":"2019-01-06T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2019-01-11T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:37:57","slug":"dear-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/01\/06\/dear-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo &#8211; Arijit Singh<\/h1>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/30W9txGVZXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First, <strong>2018<\/strong> was a year of loss. We lost our brother, <strong>Pramod Shrestha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2018 was a year of more letting gos&#8217;. A year made of tough choices to leave beautiful souls walk their own miles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of<\/strong> many people I&#8217;d never meet, of people who&#8217;d never want to see me, perhaps ever [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>2018 was also a year of more unpublished, poorly drafted, incomplete, procrastinated articles, poems and essays.<\/p>\n<p>These still decorate a large part of this blog&#8217;s<strong> &#8216;draft&#8217;<\/strong> section and handful of unattended<strong> &#8216;Google Keep&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>notes as well<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2018\u00a0 &#8212; again, was a year of books, role models, mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Read, listened, learned and d<strong>uly e<\/strong>nacted as many possible.<\/p>\n<p>20<strong>18<\/strong> was a year of unconditional, true found\u00a0<span style=\"background: #C10C00; color: white; font-size: 2.1rem;\"><strong>\u00a0love.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Love unbeknownst. Love beckoned. Love befound.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"background: #FFC717; color: #2d2d2d; font-size: 2.1rem;\">\u00a0Late than never.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2018 was a year of many more new connections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of kindling<\/strong>\u00a0old companionship, of creating meaningful soul-friendships with the few new.<\/p>\n<p>2018 by far was an adventurous year. <strong>Dhampus, <\/strong>unplan<strong>ned hikes, <\/strong>b<strong>ike rides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of my first international flight to <strong>New-Delhi<\/strong>, of reviving childhood, childlike masti with my twin brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bishow_writes\/\">Bishow Shrestha<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, 2018 was a year of sadness,<\/p>\n<p>of contentment, fulfillment and joy,<\/p>\n<p>of scratching my own itch,\u00a0of sharpening wisdom around body of words,<\/p>\n<p>of sacred contemplation, continual reflection and perpetual self-refinement along the process.<\/p>\n<p>And from where I see, 2018 wasn&#8217;t perfect,<\/p>\n<p><strong>no, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>it was just phenomenall<strong>y r<\/strong>eal &#8212; tethered with repetitive drudgery, ephemeral melancholy and<\/p>\n<p>warm rejoice of daily living.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>p.s. Dear 2018,<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Thanks for passing-by, subtly,<\/p>\n<p>one day at a time,<\/p>\n<p><strong>one breathe at a time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span> Aaj Jane Ki Zid Na Karo &#8211; Arijit Singh First, 2018 was a year of loss. We lost our brother, Pramod Shrestha. 2018 was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2019\/01\/06\/dear-2018\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear 2018<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}