Something inspirational:

“The present changes the past. Looking back, you do not find what you left behind.”

KIRAN DESAI, The Inheritance of Loss

Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges. In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines. Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.

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2 comments on “A Kiran Desai quote”

  1. At first I thought this quote to be true, then I thought more about it and I found my past engraved in me. And when I looked inward the imagery of the past was there too, like everything I've done or failed to do is still with me.

    While the present maybe more important than the past, they need each other; just like a mind needs a body.

    1. Thanks Tim. Yes I believe that too. Our past is etched; is part of us; is part of our history, DNA if you like. Is not something we escape easily from and neither should we.

      We should use the past, as lessons to be learned, whether we fail or not that is immaterial. We must learn from it.

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