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The leaves have fallen and will be replaced soon by greener ones. Newer ones. Fresher ones. If it’s the end of a cycle for you too, doing these things will add to how much you believe in getting a new bark..

- Get a new hair cut. A style you have never done before. It will make you bounce on new feet.

- Rearrange the furniture in your house. It can really change perspective.

- Clean out your shoe cabinet.

- Stack clothes in your wardrobe in a new, unpredictable order.

- Give yourself a pedicure.

- Send a pizza to your friend in another city. It’s possible yes, they now do online orders for India.

- Gift a vada pav to a child that’s begging. Or a Dabeli. Or a burger. Whatever you can afford. Watch that little face light up with the innocence it really is supposed to live.

- Smell a flower.

- Hug a tree, tell it you care. Mean it.

- Tickle a baby.

- Go for a heritage walk.

- Read old chats – it gives you seriously new perspective on how much you have changed and how far you have come.

- Sit alone in a restaurant, order your favourite ice-cream and lick the bowl clean – you would be surprised if I told you how many of us, with company, crave doing that but cannot.

- Go for a movie alone. You will learn a lot more than if you went with a friend.

- Order something you have never eaten or tried before in a restaurant.

- Leave a large tip.

- Bake a cake.

- Plant a plant. Name it.

- Write a poem. Even if you have never written one before.

- Stay happy – when all the things you are not die away, then you realise that there is no death.