What Surviving a Lunatic Asylum Taught Me About Fear and the Less Trodden Path
7 min readDec 5, 2021
Pause. Then Act
Sometime in 1996, while in secondary school, I experienced what would become a constant reference point for me later in life, on how to assess risk and remain objective in taking life decisions; or reacting under extremely tense or unpredictable circumstances. As a quick background, I attended Federal Government…