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Riding Life’s Roller Coaster With Grace
How to be content no matter what our circumstances
I have had numerous ups and downs in my life.
I was born to a prosperous family in India. I was surrounded by loving relatives — grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. I had a best friend.
Then my parents moved to America. We ended up living in a 1 bedroom apartment in a working class neighborhood in Queens, New York.
I was a lonely child because I spoke with an accent and so other kids made fun of me. Plus all of my relatives were back in India except for an uncle and his wife in Montreal. I missed them.
However, I did very well in school and after graduating from high school I went to MIT for my BSEE. While it was a tough environment academically, I made friends and had a social life. Plus I enjoyed most of my classes and I liked living in Cambridge.
I became a Christian my senior year and chose to spend a summer volunteering with a Christian ministry before I started my first job.
Until I got cancer, this was probably the toughest thing I dealt with — I am an introvert and unfortunately the ministry expected me to act extroverted. I was constantly surrounded by people.
