A deeply emotional Reddit post by a 21-year-old man battling stage 4 colorectal cancer has gone viral, touching hearts across social media as he reflected on his final Diwali and the life he wished he had more time to live.

The young man shared that he was diagnosed in 2023, and despite countless chemotherapy sessions and hospital stays, doctors had recently told him there was “nothing left to try.” He admitted he was unlikely to make it beyond this year.

With Diwali lights already appearing on the streets, he wrote about how difficult it was to see them knowing this would be his last festival of lights. “I’ll miss the lights, the laughter, and the noise. Next year, someone else will light diyas in my place while I just exist in a memory,” he shared. See the post here .

Even as he

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