Vacationing at an Indian leprosy hospital course-corrected my western life forever

Marshall Erling
7 min readJun 8, 2020
Leprosy

I had recently landed a respectable corporate IT career. My life then at age 30 was right on target toward material success. Yet inwardly I had long felt that my life was rudderless and lacking greater purpose.

Despite having means, there was no end. Without a properly defined destination, my days were increasingly feeling…

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Marshall Erling

Life through an intercultural lens, married in India twenty-four years ago.