Beating cancer and making the world a better place - one life jacket at a time

(I could only cover a few bits here as this has perhaps been a very triggering article for me as well, as I do have PTSD from those days. I’ll probably write the rest, as and when I can.) (Also, I’d like to dedicate this to my fellow warrior - Sonia! You helped me navigate this storm and have taught me so much and for that I’ll be enterally grateful. Wherever you are, I hope I am making you proud, and you are happy and full of life there! I am blessed to have met someone like you, my love. Till we meet again, love you and miss you loads. RIP my doll. <3) Oscar Wilde had once said ‘Experience is the hardest kind of a teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterwards’. To be honest, experience is a tough teacher, but the best one out there, because even if you don’t want to move ahead, mould and grow, you have no choice but to learn and nothing becomes real till its experienced. Six years ago, I was in a place where I did not know the head and tail of what to do when ...

  Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines heart break as “a crushing grief, anguish or distress”. So clearly this is something awful and can have a wide connotation which doesn’t only include romantic love. It can be on a death of a pet, a loss of a friend or any form of betrayal too, right? (In this article, we will look at it from the perspective of a person leaving, though you can suit your taste) and this form of agony, is supposed to be the best teacher as per some world renowned nobody, because it changed so many lives, it brought people to some ‘a-haa’ moment of enlightenment, taught things which apparently books don’t cover and became a multi-million dollar product to sell by self help writers. So yeah, it apparently does teach us something, but what really? In this moment of anguish, when all the ‘what ifs’ and exaggerated multicolour dream sequences of memories, go on a loop in your head, and at the same time you are in the constant self-doubt spiral, what is this ‘a-haa’ mo...