Sum of Everything

The unpredictability of life ironically guarantees that the universe often delivers to you what you need in the most surreptitious of ways and then sneakily watches you go about your day, none the wiser, all the while laughing at you for not realising that what you have been asking for has just been dropped into your lap. This seems to have happened to me, more than once, on a recent trip to Mumbai. While I was pleasantly surprised at some of the things I did manifest, I feel rather grateful to have found something I didn’t even know I was missing - i nspiration. It arrived in the unlikely form of reconnecting with an old acquaintance from college, one I never thought I would be friends with, largely because of a mutual indifference caused by misunderstandings . So it came as a surprise when we randomly started connecting over each other's somewhat controversial posts on social media, and having conversations on topics that would mostly invite not only the opposing points of ...