Coming home
I'm resuming this blog after a gap of three years. The reason for this break is that, shortly after returning from India, I began seeing a therapist. She advised me to stop writing at the time, as she believed it might hinder my healing process and make it harder for me to move on. The days following my return from India were incredibly stressful. I found myself getting agitated over the smallest things. Even before I left India, I remember one incident clearly—my mom made a suggestion I didn’t agree with, and instead of just discussing it calmly, I ended up banging my head on the ground in frustration. That kind of emotional turmoil continued even after I came back. On Santhu’s advice, I decided to seek professional help to cope with what I was going through. I'm not sure if I should call it “trauma,” but looking back, I know for certain that I wasn’t in a normal emotional state. Therapy turned out to be incredibly helpful. My therapist was a great listener—someone I could ope...