Time: A Friend or Evil
Introduction Have you ever experienced the feeling of losing something—or someone—that truly mattered to you? Think about it for a moment. If you have, you’ll know it leaves a mark. Today, I want to share my own story about loss and the lessons it taught me. Since childhood, I often took my friends for granted. I believed they would always be there. But life has a way of challenging our assumptions. As I grew older, I learned—sometimes painfully—that this mindset doesn’t always hold true. So, ladies and gentlemen, join me as I take you through the story of a teenage boy who discovered one of life’s most important lessons. PHASE OF Exuberant my father, a railway SSE, was posted in Siliguri, West Bengal. I was just a boy then—not particularly brave, not particularly clever. But I had a secret source of strength. Do you know what it was? It wasn’t faith in God or luck. It was my belief in my own mind—my brain was my weapon. And whenever I thought of my grandmother, I felt unst...