When I Forget My Love, Forgive Me

After being diagnosed with severe cerebral small vessel disease, my life was on a countdown.

The selective cognitive impairment caused by the illness made me slowly forget everything I loved during my volunteer teaching assignment in the remote mountains.

One day, the ex-boyfriend I had brutally dumped years ago drove an off-road SUV right up to the muddy school gates.

He looked down at my rough skin and cracked, sunburnt cheeks with undisguised contempt, laughing bitterly.

"Living in a godforsaken dump like this... I guess that's your karma for chasing money back then, huh?"