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ME AND MY LIFE
Running Through Lives and Situations: The Relentless Race of a Boy With a Purpose
From boarding school memories to dreams born of scarcity, this is a story of one boy’s journey to rewrite the script for his family.
Ever since I was three, I was on the move.
My aunt took me in. A year later, I was admitted into a boarding school. And from that day forward, my life revolved around hostels, trunks, mess food, and occasional hugs during school holidays.
Those brief holidays became my only window into something called “home.”
A home held together by my Grandmother’s warmth, my Grandfather’s gentle love, and my aunts who became my second mothers. My parents visited too. We were a happy family, no drama, no fancy titles, just raw love.
But life, as always, had other plans.
We are all still a family, just walking different roads now. Life happened. Priorities shifted. And though we still have each other, it often feels like we are waving from across highways.
Somewhere in those silent nights of boarding school, a thought embedded itself deep in my heart:
“Do something big. Change things. Take care of them…
