Endings and beginnings - some reflections at the end of the year and decade and start of the same.

Exactly a decade ago I was at the first phase of a wrenching period of my life. At exactly this time ten years back, at the end of 2009, I was 48 hours away from waking up on New Year’s Day with an excruciating back pain caused by an inflammation in my lower vertebrae, which saw me crawling on all fours to the loo in tears of pain and being incapacitate…