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"The Dark Knight Rises" is one of my all time favorite movies. Batman, after being beaten to a pulp by his nemesis Bane, is left to rot within a prison underground - "The Pit". The lone way to get out of The Pit is to climb out of it. A rope dangles tantalisingly offering succour and supposed security to the ones that make the climb. Batman, now Bruce Wayne, makes many an attempt to get out of the Pit but many an attempt prove unsuccessful. On one final go, he decides to do the climb without the rope, and he eventually makes it. This particular scene with its undeniable symbolism is one that has remained etched in my memory. This scene accurately represents what life has been like for me, for many of us over the past few years. All of us have been battling the odds. Health, wealth, career, relationships - all of them are Pits that we've either mastered or have been struggling to crawl out of. One such Pit for me has been writing. Evidently, I long...
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