My past life was in the slum, it was not an easy life. It’s a life of desperation and I never thought I would live the life am living now. I came from a very humble background in a crime prone area full of insecurity, rape and mugging was the order of the day. I couldn’t imagine how I was going to bring up my family in such a volatile environment. Due to my background and being an introvert I had a very low esteem and I never thought of living any better life in future. We never had running water or a toilet. We used to buy water from the vendors and we lived in mud houses with corrugated iron sheet roofs. We had raw sewage raw running past our house in the open. Since I started my private homeopathy and reflexology practice and moved out of the slum, my life has never been the same again. I strived to change my parents’ lives as well.
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