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Stories from my life
“Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race”
Ladies and gentlemen and anyone who has ever wanted to heal the world..,
Raise your hand if you have heard this song before!
Quite a lot, just as I expected.
As of today, I’m a first-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program. But as a nineties kid born and bred in the beautiful little island called Sri Lanka, I loved this song and dreamt that one day, I too would make the world a better place.
There was one problem. I was an ordinary kid. My father owns a small business and my mother is a stay-at-home mom. I have one younger brother. I went to school just like any other kid. And I used to be really, really shy. But deep inside I wanted to “make the WORLD a better place”
It was during this confusing stage of my life that I had to undergo something called the “leadership training” just before starting studies at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
One day, a trainer came up and said, “Children, this is your chance to share your talents. You can come up and perform anything you like; be it a speech, a drama or a song.
