India, April 10 -- The past few months felt like a relentless roller-coaster ride. I found myself buried under mountains of paperwork for my next promotion-paperwork that often felt strangely frivolous in an age where the government champions paperless work. Alongside this came the emotional upheaval of sending my younger one off to foreign shores.

By the end, exhaustion had seeped into me-physical and emotional alike. There was barely any time or energy left to scroll through social media, let alone post anything. The other day, however, I allowed myself the luxury of a leisurely scroll.

Somewhere between habitual swipes, a post caught my attention-enough to make me pause, scroll back, and read it again. It spoke of a young student in ...