V.I.VI MYSELF It was still all very new with Marco. Right when we felt we were heading somewhere, the world seemed to have suddenly turned against us. What? I’m being overly dramatic? Okay, okay, sorry – I’ll tone it down. When I received the news I’d finally be going back to hospital, I realised we couldn’t be around each other […]
A Twist
V.I.V AN UNEXPECTED TWIST Everything was falling right into place… Until everything came crashing down. All my hopes and dreams and goals? The balance I had worked so hard to find? Love, adventure, wisdom? None of that mattered anymore. Everything was now in disarray, disrupted. Leave it to the universe to wait until I got my crap together to throw us […]
Great Expectations
V.I.IV GREAT EXPECTATIONS It was full steam ahead. Interview, check. January exams, check. Only one semester to go and I’d be a fully-fledged doctor. Sure, there’d be some bumps on the road, but if everything went according to plan, it would be smooth sailing or something close to it. Becoming a surgeon had been my goal all along. I knew […]
The Sound of Silence
V.I.I THE SOUND OF SILENCE It took a while for me to get it. Took a while for me to finally understand that being strongly opinionated is not enough. And when I realised that, I was done. I was done being a wallflower. I was done staying on the side-lines. And for the first time in my life, I stood […]
Idealism
V.I.II IDEALISM Recent events had shaken me to my core. Once again, I’d become conscious of the state we seemed to be living in. I couldn’t stand how much reality diverged from the ideal. It was something I’d dealt with easily years back, after my awakening. Back then, I’d started noticing the same discrepancy between how things are and how […]