Something happened. One of his friends was in the OR. His friend has been diagnosed with glioblastoma. We were all terrified. And he was crying. I couldn't do anything. The more I tried to talk to him, the more I made it worse. I didn't go to school that day. Luckily one of my uncles was a chief surgeon there. So we were able to start the procedure quite quickly. Glioblastoma is a brain tumor that can't be cured. That day was quite gloomy both for me and him. He refused to eat anything that day. I took him to the hospital cafeteria and got him juice and compelled him to drink it. "Akash is an amazing human being", he said. "Seeing him lying on that bed fighting for life, no Harshitha, it's unfair", he said. "Life is unpredictable, the more you think about it, the worse it gets", I said. Life is never fair to anyone. No one is born perfect. I have my flaws. Everyone has. And sometimes those flaws could be life-threatening. But that can't stop anyone from being a decent human being. Akash was someone he knew from his childhood. And it's easy for me or anyone else to try and be nice. But I couldn't be of much help to him. The world is a hoax. Life is precious. When something has life, just its life, god has blessed it with enormous love. But that life will end no matter what. Some go through a lot of suffering for it to end. While some have a peaceful end. But it ends no matter what. Life is short. We never know what happens next. But everything happens for a reason. Trust in God and be optimistic. In such a short period, many of us foam with envy, getting jealous when others succeed. Looking back at life when everything is over, you realize you've wasted half your lifetime competing. Do not compete with others. Compete for yourself. Compete to be a better human every single day. Nothing is permanent. When you realize that, you will also know nothing is lost. I stayed with him in the hospital the whole night. My parents were there too. But my parents didn't care much about me being with him. Since he was older than me, my parents thought we were just friends. And I'm highly glad they thought that way. The next morning I had to go to school since I had an important test to deal with. But he was still asleep so I left him a note saying:
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I visited that night. And the doctor said that Akash could live up to a month max. This broke him really hard. He stopped talking to everyone for almost a week. And that shattered me. But then he somehow started getting back to normal. He accepted Akash's fate. And our relationship wasn't the same as it used to be when we first started it. But we were learning. The importance of love and the need to tell the person you love the most, that you love them because you'll never know what comes next.
