15 days

How often does the word 'deadline' sound nice? The question isn't applicable if you are one of those frustratingly infuriating, painfully organized compulsive geeks. But if you are like the billions of comfortably average people like me, the aforementioned word - one that should not be repeated, would almost without fail get a groan out of you if you have less than a year of experience or alternatively be a deaf-spot.

Timeline has never sounded as sweet as a 15 day time given to me yesterday. Though the 15th day itself would be a life altering day, the thought of contact acts like a shot of heroin. You hope that you would learn - that the experience of a 6 month long withdrawl symptom after 5 years of ODing would make you not yearn for the shot again. But you see yourself lying in the darkest corners of the darkest alleys fully aware of how you reached there. Not regretting a single step.