Some incidents change our life upside-down. It doesn’t matter if it is good or bad. To me it was two things that changed my life. The first incident that changed my life was when I failed in exams during my school and lost one year. When I restarted academic life from that failure. It helped achieve graduation.
Another incident that changed my life was when my mother was diagnosed with cancer and was expelled 3 years later. During the time of treatment i have seen a lot of people with the same pain. People from different castes, age groups, gender, race… Are going through the same pain.
To me, these two things changed my life. First thing gave me the power to move forward if we fail and the second thing made me realise that beyond religion, race gender differences the emotions are same