Should I have married that journalist fromThe Chicago Tribunewhen I was 23? Should I have taken that banking job when I was 26? Should I have stayed in my full-time job in Pune in 2008?
Everything in my life seemed like a missed opportunity in the months of June and July 2020. While the world battled with COVID-19, some of my friends found their soul mates and some got pregnant or bought fancy cars, I wondered what I was doing with my life.
Every crucial decision that I had taken over a period of a decade and a half, flashed before my eyes. All of my heartaches and rejections tumbled down one after another as regrets – deep regrets. My professional decisions looked like a joke, the freedom I was given to choose what I wanted to do with my life, now felt like folly.
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