About the Author

My journey into writing did not begin as a dream or an ambition.
I didn’t wake up one day deciding to become a writer.

It began after a season that asked me to feel life more deeply than I ever had before.

Like many, I started life following the familiar path:  good education, a stable career, and hopes for a future that made sense by society’s standards.

I wanted to fit in. Timely education, a respectable job, marriage at the “right” time that felt like success.

But sometimes, life has a different plan.
It doesn’t ask you to fit in.
It asks you to expand.

Hi, I’m Sarita Mian, from Himachal Pradesh, India.

I hold a master’s degree in microbiology and worked for over a decade in pharmaceutical organizations, including Sun Pharmaceutical (erstwhile Ranbaxy). Those years shaped me in many ways not just professionally, but personally. Working closely with people taught me grounding, empathy, and the quiet strength found in human connection.

Then, in the middle of what felt like a well-structured life, everything changed.

In 2014, my mother met with a severe accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury. Overnight, life became something none of us were prepared for.

The days that followed were filled with emotional, physical, and mental challenges that tested our strength in ways we never imagined.

It was a phase that stretched us, broke us, and forced us to confront parts of ourselves we had never met before.

Somewhere between exhaustion and endurance, I reached my breaking point and also my turning point.

That season led me inward.

It introduced me to faith, to deeper truths, and to a relationship with God and myself that I had never experienced before.

In that stillness, I began to hear a quiet voice within, a voice that wanted to write, to express, to bring light into spaces that felt unbearably heavy.

That voice gave birth to “The Locks and Keys.”

Writing became my way to process pain, discover meaning, and transform struggle into strength.

What began as a personal refuge slowly became a purpose.

I did not leave my career as an escape; I stepped away because I felt called toward something more aligned with who I was becoming.

I didn’t start writing because I wanted to.
I started writing because life demanded a deeper language.

Through my words, I share reflections on faith, endurance, emotional growth, and the quiet resilience we discover in life’s most difficult seasons. I believe our hardest experiences are not meant to end with us, they are meant to become light for someone else’s path.

If my writing helps you feel less alone, more patient with your journey, or a little more hopeful in a chapter you never chose, then every word has found its purpose.

Welcome to this space. I’m grateful our paths crossed here.

— Sarita Mian