
“Toopina dina kammi, aatina dina jaasti.”
My grandma used to say this. My mother does—now. Translated from Tulu, it practically means: “The days I had are more than the days left in me.” A popular saying among elders, the sentence is supposed to remind oneself of the ultimate truth (death) as well as o…
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