Like all the years I have witnessed through two and a half decades of my uninterrupted and mostly peaceful existence, 2019 AD has been a year filled with ups and downs. It was full of learning, chances, missed chances, failures, and successes. The human condition is a pot of rice and beans, you see. One has to be focused, relentless and make good use of whatever the pot of life fetched for him. I don’t know how well I utilized my 2019 but I can boldly say it is the...