“ Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash.” From one page to another as I read the essays and poems it hurt me to know that Marina is in a better place today and what a loss it is to Humanity not to have such a brilliant humane person with us. The Opposite of Loneliness is an exemplary piece only to confess that in her short yet eventful span of life, Marina lived a life with purpose and had the courage to defy the conventional path of life today which has been often overly romanticised by the constructed idea of success. She was like ‘most’ (note: most!) high spirited Young (often attacked as being idealists)- a last-minute all-nighter, a procrastinator (who got extremely hyped after reading Coleridge - our very own underr...