When Breath Becomes Air
Went through the pages of the book, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanidhi again in December, 2019. Life was not the same before. Mine was in a roller coaster after August, 2019. Never thought of the philosophy of deaths before. Never it was that painful. Till then I loved to call myself a Cancer survivor, for Parvathy (my daughter) and me was not two, but one. It was all shattered when I lost my father to Liver Cancer. As if you are crumbled - your ego of being a super hero in life who can face all challenges with a smile. And I was reading Kalanidhi from a new perspective. To be a super hero YOU need not be a survivor. You need not travel through this world in body but can be in spirit. What Kalanidhi teaches us is to embrace the life as well as death with a smile, with equal passion. The reality shows in the Television channels, the Facebook pages and all the available media today prefer to bring in the people who have survived to live in this Earth. They speak