How Kamala helped me get my mojo back

While I was increasingly drawn to slowing down, Kamala Harris, a veteran of many courtroom battles, geared up for the fight of a lifetime.

- FEMALE GAZE

Kamala Harris lost her moonshot at the Presidency but she's already a shining beacon for many. And for me personally, she's done a tremendous amount of good. To start with we share a similar laugh. It's boisterous, likely to erupt at any time, and goes on longer than it perhaps should but there's no turning off a hearty cackle mid-way, is there? When anyone comments on my laugh, I've begun to say "I laugh like Kamala".

We are also born in the same year. I hadn't paid any attention to this until she was nominated as a candidate for the most powerful job in the world. The march of time had me down in the dumps. I was beset by listlessness and plagued by doubts and misgiving.

None of the things that used to give me joy seemed appealing. I looked back at the things I put my hand at in the past and wondered whatever made me take up such taxing challenges.

And as for the presentwas anything worth doing anymore? I wallowed in a compound of ennui and self-pity.