Affliction haunted me throughout my life. Day or night, I was always surrounded by darkness as if I walked through a long tunnel I never knew where it ended or at least when I found the source of light. It was a feeling I struggled with every day.

For some people, rewinding childhood memory would be a great escape from all the nightmares they were facing. Yet for me, it was all the same. There was no phase of my life in which I could reminisce as a good memory. All of them left me with pains.

I witnessed how my mother remained to starve to let me eat. She...