Kuala Lampur, July 15 -- I don't think we should always be looking for silver linings. Sometimes, things are objectively terrible.

Like people who insist on finding the "blessings" in getting cancer.

My blessings are the people in my life. Cancer was something terrible that happened to me, even if I did make the best of it.

I'm not thankful for getting cancer. I'm thankful for the support I've received and for being in the public healthcare system while it was still mostly functioning.

Making the best of bad situations, leveraging the worst to create the most ideal option, it's sometimes the only thing you can do.

Just the other day I was talking to a colleague about Bella Astillah and how some have reduced her to just being a "socia...