Relocating and conquering Mountains

I had been a fairly good student ever since my childhood. My parents felt that I was gifted and intelligent. I never had to struggle to complete my syllabus or pass my exams. I was a happy go lucky person who took life as it came. This way I could enjoy the sports and music classes that I loved the most. Dramatics period set my aspirations soaring as I would practice my lines on the stage. Life was going as usual when my father got the news that he had been transferred to a new city. To tell the truth I had mixed feelings associated with this news. I had been studying in a Hindi Medium school and there in the new city admission was available in an English medium school. It was a very big and important decision for me. I realized that this can be a make or break decision for me. For my father it was the choice to choose a job responsibility in a bigger role in a bigger city. On the other hand he had my future in mind. I had a lengthy discussion with him and then we arrived at the decision that at some point in my life I would have to make the move to switch streams or switch to English medium. Then why not now? He felt that studying in a new city and bigger school would widen my perspective and horizon. So I agreed to move to the new city ,relocate and #StartANewLife.
Initially everything seemed quite new and unfamiliar. My father and mother got accustomed to the new city . I found the new school and academic environment challenging to begin with. Then I began to make new friends and my class teacher started mentoring me and guiding me in adjusting to the new environment. I started studying with a new found focus that I had lacked until this point in life. As I was a year away from my board exams this new found focus and vigor came at a very opportune time. For every student the board exams are like the final of a big tournament. For me I was beginning to peak and find form right before the final of a big game of life. This was a big positive for me that helped me accomplish a task that seemed almost impossible to do. The risk of moving to a new city and the opportunity to #StartANewLife had paid off. So the next year when I gave the board exams I had no difficulty in attempting the papers in the English medium. When the results came I passed with very good marks and got the subjects of my choice. Looking back I feel had I not only conquered a big mountain and overcome all the obstacles but learned the skill to negotiate all the challenges that would come in my life ahead.

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When hope and Optimism came knocking

When I joined the first year of college I found everything to be new . The new course was difficult and difficult to comprehend. Keeping pace with the theory classes and practical’s was a very difficult task. If I worked hard on my theory classes I found no time left to complete the practical classes notes. Attempting to complete the practical notes I found it to be very difficult to revise my theory notes. Though I had faced and overcome academic challenges in my life before but these college studies were different. I had never experienced such tough times. I found myself surrounded by thick hard bound books and before I could finish reading one another one was staring at me waiting for its turn to be read. It was like a relay race and I was getting slower and the fatigue was taking its toll. I started feeling low and did not know how I would pass my term exams. Even my confidence took a dip. Now a days when I looked at myself in the mirror. I found a stooping ,burdened with load girl staring at me. Was it really me I wondered if I could do anything to improve my performance. However what ever I did it did not improve my performance. I was losing my concentration and my attention span was diminishing. Then one day when I reached home I found my elder cousin sister waiting for me in my room . She reciprocated my greetings and hugged me lovingly. She was surprised and worried at my condition. She tried to cheer me up but with little success. Then she thought of a plan to help me overcome my situation. She introduced me to a friend of hers who had passed out of the same course as me just a year ago . This friend of hers called Sudha had a very pleasant and cheerful disposition. She told me that when she had joined the course then even she had felt the course to be very difficult due to its vast syllabus. Hearing these words from her came as a pleasant surprise for me as she was the gold medalist in the college in the very course that I was undertaking. I found her talk very riveting. She was so helpful that she even agreed to help me in my studies. The best part is that she had a unique skill to pep you up and fill you with hope and optimism. Along with these positive feelings she also passed on her notes that made my understanding of the subjects very easy. I found that when I was at the lowest point of my life in terms of confidence and esteem. Sudha didi came to me like an angel who not only gave me the tools to help me in my studies and academics but the hope and optimism that she brought in my life came as a life and career saving blessing from god.

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Together we overcame

I had been a fairly decent student in my last school but joining a new school was an all together new experience. I had been studying in a Hindi medium school until now and the move to a English medium was a very big hurdle for me. Even though I could both write and read English so that was not a problem. It’s the other subjects that bothered me. The jump from Hindi to a English medium school is a very big change for any student. So in this new school I found myself surrounded by a new set of batch mates  and  subjects which appeared alien. This new system of studies was very different to understand and comprehend. I was clearly at a loss during all the classes and found it very difficult to complete the home work. My teachers saw this as lack of interest and initiative and labelled me as a back bencher. It felt very insulting and I did not know what to do. However hard I tried to study I failed. Day by day I was losing my sleep and appetite and even my health began to show signs of the strain and I started looking very pale and sickly. My parents also got very concerned. Then one day my class teacher who was considered to be very strict called me to the staff room . She asked me very lovingly what the matter was and what was bothering me and why my grades were suffering. I told her everything. She was silent for a while lost in her thoughts and then she said we can workout a solution for you. She said since she was a maths and science teacher She would be able to help me in these subjects. She offered to give me two hours everyday after school so that I could clear my doubts and she would help me in my transition from a Hindi to an English medium school. Unlike her strict exterior which she maintained in class I found her to be very understanding and receptive. She would help me understand the basics of the subjects and clear my doubts. She helped me create shortcuts to understand and remember the formulas. With quite a bit of hard work my grades began to improve and I was no longer considered a back bencher in this school. I found her to be a great inspiration who always gave me the hope that I can get good marks in all subjects.  With this renewed optimism my self esteem and confidence began to improve and I started loving studying hard and intelligently. She became my favorite teacher and books my best friend. It was thanks to the time spent #together with my class teacher that helped me find a warm helpful person and a mentor who guided me to discover and bring out my inner potential and strength.  

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Life

Life is like a spring of water
flowing over paths new and old
Life is like a dream
waiting to unfold
Live life as it comes
Thats the way it comes

The moon

Everything is clear and familiar
The moon is out in the sky
As all is bathed in silver
There is hope for every one