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When Black doesn't haunt!

If after reading the title you thought that this article was related to Halloween or ghosts, then you would perhaps be mistaken. In fact, this is just an incident that unveiled the irony of notions around black and made me realize the power of mistakes. There was a competition for which registration had to be done through Microsoft forms. While filling the form they asked for a particular social media ID that I didn’t have. So, I just filled it up with random letters to see what was on the next page. And then by mistake I ended up submitting the form that carried all my wrong information. I really wanted to participate in that competition but it allowed only one response per person. I felt very guilty for such a stupid mistake and started wondering how such a mistake could be done? Turns out that mistakes are the only thing other than your achievements that help you grow. Sometimes we must lose in order to gain because some lessons are best learnt through pain. So at that time I was no