the list of things done

29.06.2026

Again, A. asks me who I am. Are we what we do? This is what I did today. What does it say about me? A. never comments.

1. Meditation and chi building. To maintain mental clarity, focus and balance.
2. Reading the newspaper (The BBC website and The Metro). To keep in touch with things. To stay up to date. To connect with the wider world.
3. Exercise with light weights. Mens sana in corpora sana.
4. Languages learning in Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, German, Spanish and French (reading novels, short stories, the news, reading a German grammar book). Because of the challenge, the thrill of learning, connection with my own culture. Connection with the world.
5. Reading British history. To learn more about this world that I have arrived in. To be erudite and learned.
6. Reading ‘The Ecology Book’. To face the environmental disaster.
7. Reading psychology articles. To learn more about the strangers that surround me and the strangeness in myself.
8. Watching videos. Pleasure, entertainment, enjoyment.
9. Reading about Christiano Ronaldo on social media. Looking up to a hero that is like myself, the achiever, the goal getter, and understanding the hate sent to him by the jealous.
10. Phoning my girlfriend. To feel connected to someone, to feel intimate. To show that I care.
11. Taking my family around London, a museum and the Royal Opera House. Family ties require duty and care.
12. Playing Scrabble. Keeping the mind nimble.
13. Doing a crossword. Keeping the memory agile.
14. Doing anagrams. Keeping creativity and language playing in the mind.
15. Doing a jigsaw puzzle. Keeping visual processing in check.
16. Listening to Hindi music on my headphones. Connecting with the culture, enjoyment, language learning.
17. Writing to my pen pals. Keeping connected. Helping people to stay connected.
18. Writing some fiction. The drive to write is a compulsion and my biggest ambition.
19. Quick doodles. To keep the artist’s hand in training.
20. Looking at photographs and art on social media. To learn and learn and learn again. To be stimulated. To be one with creativity.