Aravind Padmaraju lost his wife in 2013 when she fell from a train while traveling alone to a wedding. He had stayed back for a ₹15,000 corporate training assignment instead of going with her. He spent nearly a decade in guilt before beginning to heal around 2022.
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The first incident, even I told you, in 2013 my wife passed away, right? So during that incident, I was along with the working, I was also doing a corporate training. I used to earn good amount of money. And even that incident, the way my mind is perceived, I got opportunity. We both supposed to go together, travel together to my village there to attend my cousin's marriage. And I got a last, last minute opportunity that I was a corporate trainer. They said the existing trainer has some personal emergency. Can you take one more day? We'll pay you ₹15,000. Then I took a decision to go because ₹15,000 helps me to come out of whatever I was going through. That's how I sent my wife alone. And that same day night when she was getting down and I'm going from the other city to there, I heard that she fell, she fell in from the train and she's no more. And that whole period I was just blaming myself. 'Because of the money only you have this. If you had money, you would have not left her.' So then I was blaming myself. I was in the guilt for almost till 2022. When I started working on my healing, I identified this also.