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They say, 'Time heals everything' . But does it really? Or is it that 'we change over time' ? Maybe it's not time that heals; maybe it's our mind that adapts. When life throws us into turmoil, be it, heartbreak, rejection, failure, our animal instinct kick-in. We either fight or flee. Our brain gets into survival mode, desperate to fix, or escape the discomfort. We try to classify the situation in ways best known to us, i.e., good, bad, right, wrong; because ambiguity frightens us. But, life doesn't come with neat formats. It's into spreads of black and white, and everything is grey- confusing and uncomfortable. For a long time, I resented this grey zone. It made me uncomfortable, made me question everything I knew about myself. But recently, I’ve realized that, the grey zone is not a place of failure. It's a place of "self-realization". It's the messy, in-between space where real growth happens. It enables you to define your own truths...