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All of us have
faced a stage in our lives when everything seemed to go wrong and the
way forward was murky, to say the least. But it's just these moments
that often bring about the happiest changes. Six exceptional
individuals tell you about the crises that turned into their
breakthrough
Mridu Khullar
Freelance Journalist
"I realized that the one thing that could heal me was travel"
It sat right below the light on my friend's terrace, the gecko, its gaze fixated on the wasp in front of it.
"Go on then, eat it," my friends shouted. "Show the sucker!"
But it wouldn't, I knew. Sure enough, the wasp buzzed around its rival,
eventually sitting on it. The visible reflex reaction vibrating through
the gecko's entire body could mean only one thing: A sting.
"Ow!" said Alex. "Bloody wasp."
Three years ago, it had been a different terrace, different geckos, and
different wasps. But the act was always the same: The gecko tried and
it failed.
Lonely, miserable, and out of luck, I watched. I always watched.
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