Very Small Lives
How poetic of me to be posting exactly after one year. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about life and its purpose. Clearly, I'm hitting 30 soon. And before you know it, I shall be dropping the P-word (philosophy, silly!) in every sentence just to sound like I have reached some zen mode. A lot of this thinking stems from my experiences at my workplace. Without getting into finer details, on a surface level, I can say that lately I am working with very special children—children with special healthcare needs. It's a small part of my work but gives me more motivation and the zeal to do better than anything else. It is a recent development in my professional life and the reason why I felt the need to write again. We take privileges for granted—privileges that themselves have been granted to us by years of sacrifices by someone else. Some are just handed down to us by sheer luck, by default. For most of my life, I have considered myself deeply unsatisfied due to the 'smal...