The blue sky

I have been practicing Intermittent Fasting since July 2016, and it has given me tremendous benefits. I no longer crave food throughout the day, and I am very conscious about what I put in my mouth. I don't buy fruit juices or packaged items loaded with sugar from the supermarket. I see to it that I cook every day at home with whatever resources are available to me in Germany. I am a vegetarian, and whenever I go out traveling within Europe, the options available are cheese, vegetables, and salads. I enjoy them now as under no circumstances would I ever eat the meat that is abundantly available here without any problems. It's easy to pick up unhealthy and packaged meals from the supermarket. It saves time and energy. But what about the quality of the food that you are eating?

This year it didn't snow at all in Karlsruhe. The winter didn't seem like it in South Germany this year. The temperatures were pleasant, and it was 20 degrees last Sunday! It's not that I am complaining! I am happy when it's not very cold, but the rate at which the climate is changing everywhere in the world is quite alarming. It creates an imbalance in nature, in people's health too! And this is often the season where most of the people fall sick. T was no exception as well. His friend had come for a stayover, on the weekend and he had a cold. Before that friend left and we knew it, T had it too!

After coming to Karlsruhe, I got time to do things that I never did in India, e.g., learn cycling and swimming. I enrolled in a swim course, and it was there where I met S for the first time. We were members of an informal WhatsApp group of Indian women in Karlsruhe, but we never had the opportunity to meet each other before. S seemed a quiet girl in the beginning, but later after spending time with each other, we became good friends.