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Life is a Comedy of Errors

Photo courtesy: www.nosweatshakespeare.com Back in 2012, during my sister’s wedding party, we played a fun game – Words of Wisdom . All the guests were given blank paper chits and sketch pens to write down messages for the married couple. The messages needed to be thoughts that would enable the couple to navigate their life together. We received many wise messages, but the one that bagged the prize came from my maternal grandmother – someone we dearly loved and lost later, in 2016. She wrote, “ Life is a comedy of errors. ” Back then, she won the prize but the message truly landed home for me many years later. As a carefree college-going person, I didn't fully understand this description of life. Let’s just say I was too naïve, and she was too wise. Looking back, while we knew of some of the struggles in her life, maybe there were countless internal battles that she never exposed us to. Perhaps that was the 'comedy of errors' she was referring to. Cut to today.  Life has un...