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But she, too, found this situation helpless. Entrapped in this education system, like a criminal sentenced for life. Was it the local culture to blame? Or the competitiveness that shaped this uncanny, inhabitable cultural desert? The reason remained unfathomable to her.
Years later, time has proven to the family that they have stolen their daughter’s best opportunities by giving her the best. When she was 21, her face, her youth, her life, all palpitated and crumbled into dust and merged with the sand in the desert. Pills became an inseparable part of her life equation. People who took pity on her blamed it on work stress, yet she knew it was a mild alternative to the fact. Nolan, who took the other road diverged in a wood, witnessed how a single raindrop created countless ripples on a pond of water.
The destructive fear allowed opportunities to silently slip away from one’s hand like sand — these chances only favour the bold. In the abyss of regret, Susan and her parents yearned for the road not taken and the lost chances.
It was lost but will never, ever, be found.
Inspired by the photo series Time to tame the tigers? by Saskia WESSELING Image #9
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