On the morning of 17th October 2019, I lost the first-ever subscriber to my posts, my greatest motivator and my most vocal critic.
I lost my father.
This was one year, one month, one day after I lost my grandmother.
Papa was seventy and had been struggling for the previous eighteen months. His passing away was peaceful, if not the closing ten days of life.
![Papa and Me Papa and Me](http://safalniveshak.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Papa-Vishal-Khandelwal.jpg)
When he died, family and friends told me that the grief would subside with time, that time would dull the pain. It’s been less than a month, but the grief has not really subsided, so I am pinning my hopes for a longer time.