For the last couple of weeks, I have been a little unwell. It was just the common cold to start with, but its intensity increased and when it coupled with severe coughing and throat inflammation, it became awful. As most part of my job involves talking, I decided to do without that and took couple of days off from work.

I stayed at home most of the time, slept during the day which is a luxury for me, did mundane things like organizing the playlist in my iPod (which I had been procrastinating for years), watching football, playing with Anirud etc. I even wrote few posts in my now defunct blog. During this time, I purposefully remained incommunicado from work by keeping my Blackberry on mute, although I was aware of the fireworks that were going on in the office – that needed my attention.

Today as I got ready to commute to work, I realized that the last two days were my best days in the recent memory. I was able to switch off all my work related concerns, be able to relax, do stuff that I liked, not be concerned about having to negotiate something for someone. Simply put, it feels great – even when I haven’t recovered completely and even when I am staring at the mountain load of stuff waiting to be done. It took this long for me to realize that one doesn’t need to go on a holiday to relax. What is more, we even quietly started our tenth year of married life yesterday. Isn’t that blissful?