The Candid Life of Meena Dave

by Namrata Patel

“You haven’t lived if you are not trying to forget.”

There is no order to life. While time is linear, we do not have to live within its confines.

Aloneness was a choice, but loneliness felt different. A disconnection from others that felt more like a condition of how she lived her life.

“The thing about complications,” Sam said. “Avoiding them doesn’t always work.”