It’s almost 2025, and I’m back home and fully recovered from a brief but intense battle with Miss Falciparum, aka malaria. I came out of it donning rose-tinted glasses, feeling happier and immensely grateful for my life and my body. I’m writing this because the tint is fading, and the greyness once again is encroaching on my view of the world. I know now not to let it. I monitor it intensely now instead of blindly stepping into months and years of despair, unaware of why I fe