Disha Mullick braves a heavy Friday and finds solace in a cup.
You should really be raring to go on a Friday morning. There’s the possibility ahead of lying in, of reduced phone calls, of reduced knocks on your inbox, of aimlessly standing on the breezy hot balcony, surrounded by fragrant tomato vines and pink and white and orange bougainvillea, sniffing the pollen fluffs, sneezing, taking a deep breath and striking a tree pose…
But actually. Fridays are heavy as hell.
The weight of the week and then, after a lockdown-non-weekend, the prospect of being slapped in the face with another one.
It’s hard to look ahead at all.
Unless, you break your self imposed and really daft lock down discipline and cave into an extra half cup of mid morning coffee. Man do Fridays get better then. You can try it with any, I happened to have the Black Baza Wanderoo, which takes the weight on my chest and melts it down a little, or takes the knots in my brains and eases them out like the best fragrant hair oil type lubricants. I come out on the other side feeling (and smelling) like I can take on any kind of crappy EOW (even more of those apoplexy inducing acronyms I can stomach) shit that comes my way. My synapses are lit up with fairy lights and I’m not a chronically unhappy person anymore.
Just a regular TGIF-er.
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About Disha
Disha Mullick is a writer who loves the Indian coast but lives in Delhi. She is also the CEO of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only all-women rural news channel, where she trains women from these areas to produce local news in their languages, from their unique perspective.
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