Sometimes, you are just so shocked by the suddenness of life. I was just invigilating a paper with her in the hall on Monday, and yesterday morning I entered into the staff room to be told the sad news that she had passed away due to complications at childbirth. Most of the older female teachers were red-eyed and some were openly sobbing, while I felt completely out of place, I was saddened, as anyone naturally would at a tragedy, but I had not been working there long enough for her to mean anything to me, on a personal level, it was akin to me reading about a plane crash in the papers. I couldn't empathise with the distraught person in the next cubicle. And it felt callous. So I fled to the library and locked myself up in the backroom.