āYouāre actually in a life-threatening situation right now.ā That was what my dentistĀ told me inĀ all seriousness. 7 months ago during a regular check-up, my dentist suspected that my lower...
23Ā April, 2011 is a day I will never forget. It was the day that marked the end of my mumās four-year-long battle against breast cancer. She was 59 years old that year. It was a battle that...
‘Tis the season for broken hearts. It’s always the season. Somewhere in the world, a heart is breaking. In this very moment, someone has just been dumped, someone is struggling to come to...
I onceĀ believed that one day I’d change the world in a good, unselfish, non-superficial way. But real life hit me hard. I was overrun byĀ a deep existential crisis. No, not the kind you feel...
It was the third week of January, 2015 ā my first year of university. I received a phone call. The voice saidĀ my best friend was inĀ hospital. He’d met with a road accident and was fighting...
Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...
Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iād gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white,Ā seated where Jesusā body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot....
Death. You know this feeling according toĀ what you’ve been through. The death of a person. The death of a dream. The death of hope. I admit I probably havenāt experienced great tragedy...