Toubib Or Not To Be

  2019 was a strenuous year. From the Amazon rainforest wildfires, passing the Christchurch mosque shootings, the Mozambique’s cyclones, to the burning of Notre - Dame cathedral, the earth didn’t seem to catch its breath. We grieved the loss of our people, our planet, and our heritage. But, true to their ways, the nations celebrated the passing of another year with fireworks, resolutions, and hope. A Hope that 2020 failed to deliver. Three years have passed in the bat of an eye, and the world seems unrecognizable. What started as temporary solutions morphed into our lifestyle. And although the concept was foreign to most in the Before, online shopping became the norm. The increasing demand forced most shops to create websites and apps to cater to the changed habits of their customers, and soon, there was nothing you couldn’t buy. Clothes, shoes, groceries, skincare, makeup, stationery, furniture, electronics, books, everything was one ...

If I’m caught in a story, then perhaps I can use my knowledge of them to write             my way out. When it comes to fantasy, prophecies are bound to come true, but there’s always a twist. Let’s take Macbeth for example. The Weird Sisters promise Macbeth that no man born of woman can kill him, and a few acts later, Shakespeare presents a character born by a Cesarean section to slay him.   In Henry IV Part II, the character has been prophesied to die in Jerusalem, and guess what? He dies not in the city of Jerusalem, as you might think, but in   a room named after it. Prophecies come true, but in a way you wouldn’t expect them to, it’s just good story telling. So the trick is to look back a few years ago and see which of those prophecies have already come true and how unexpectedly that happened .   Exhausted in a new chic coffee shop I decided to try out, sitting in front of a poster listin...