That call I received two years ago

and how it shattered my life into pieces

Photo by peter bucks on Unsplash

It was a gloomy day and the skies indicated that something bad was coming. Usually, on my birthday I wake up all excited. But this birthday was different. Something inside me was not sitting right. There was an unbearable quietness hanging around me. I guess this was the calm before the storm. It was later when I was at the movies, that…