An Impeccable Journey. - the journey of my life in 2021.

-R U T H A 

"Lost time is never found again." quoted by Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the United States.

Time is an inseparable part of the humankind. It is also considered to be one of the most crucial things for the existence of the nature. Time is the foundation for the formation and functioning of the world. 

The above written quote bestows the saliency of time and the need for people to offer the value it deserves. We have come a long way after millions of years of evolution process. The time utilized to educate ourselves, develop ourselves and bring out the better versions of ourselves is the perfect example of the way we have laid a new path to be walked on. Innovations, Technologies, Industries, Infrastructures are some of the aspects of today's fast moving economy and life. Numerous individuals have achieved remarkable feat in the industries making themselves proud and their nations too. But behind all these elements and factors, there is the hardwork, the determination and nothing but pure passion and love towards certain things. To grab hold of this threshold, they had put their time into working smart or hard for striving towards their goals. Taking time as the basis, Here is the journey of my life through the year 2021.

Student life especially during the adolescence creates a lot of impact on a person's physical as well as mental health. The teenage is most certainly where you have to start ruminating about your interests and your abilities. Knowing your likes and your dislikes and linking that to your goals to achieve something out of the ordinary is a lot of thought process. Different perspectives and aspects have to investigated and looked upon before coming to a conclusion. 

As a high school student who studied in 10th grade, there were a number of people giving me suggestions for studying, they told me to be much more indulged in my studies, I was told to come up with new strategies for studying efficiently and productively without any inconsistency. But one thing that disappointed me was that, I was always told by all these people except my parents to study for marks. Marks was all the mattered to them. But nevertheless, my parents gave me one of the best advices ever, they told me study for knowledge and for achieving my aims to reach for the top and not for securing outstanding results. 

From a very young age, I was shy, introverted and always in my own comfort zone. But in the year 2021, tables did turn. At the beginning, due to the covid crisis, there were a couple of months that I'd spent on my online classes. After the re-opening of the schools, I found a part of myself which was deprived of practical knowledge and skills that I had possessed. Nervousness, embarrassment, inferiority, outcasted etc. If I put it in simpler terms I had zero self-esteem and optimism within myself. Pessimistic thoughts clouded my mind.

To recover from this bad attitude of my low-esteemed self took a lot of time. My peers, guardians and teachers were some of them who played a major role in mending me and trying to make my confidence self to be brought back. After a tons of trials and errors, I slowly came back to my original self back. From then, I don't think I ever turned back. 

Being a young amateur reader cum writer was a difficult task. Reading and Writing are the two things that I was always fond of since a child. Stories and poems effected me such way that it inspired me to start piling up ideas and words and draft stories of my own. I began writing stories and poems that held deeper meaning and I always wanted the reader to be enthralled by the things he/she reads. I wrote about my most naked emotions; those that I wouldn't generally express. My stories held a lot of depth with tiny bits of both fictional and factual data. Writing was one of the most pleasurable experience for me. The freedom to be able to express your feelings, ideas, thoughts, knowledge was what made me completely mad about writing. As I wrote, the better I became. Each time I compared my new pieces told the old ones, I found a huge difference. My writing style had took a turn, my vocabulary became better. With practice, determination and hardwork, I used all my leisure time in developing my writing skills.

As I was Grade 10, I had concentrate on my studies too. To be absolutely honest, I wasn't the 'hard-working' person. I have and I will always believe that smart work is way more effective than hardwork. Sometimes, I did find subjects like Mathematics to be nerve-wracking, but practice and patience made me overcome it. 

Smart-work for me included; proper utilization of time by planning and organizing my study schedule, understanding the concepts rather than by-hearting it, using practical knowledge as the base for comprehending stuff, having different perspectives on a single context and etc.

The biggest turning point in my year 2021, was my first academic failure. I had always been a very good student in my academics. I was always well-behaved and disciplined. But, for the first time in my life, I had flunked my mid-term Mathematics paper. Initially, I felt nothing. Emptiness invaded me. I couldn't stomach the fact that I had failed in a subject. The experience was completely strange and new. Emptiness transformed into anger which then became sadness. It felt as if I almost reached the 100 score in snake and ladder game, but the snake bit me and I had to restart now. 

I took it up as a personal challenge and started to work even more harder and smarter. The desire and passion in me never really went of my heart or brain. I didn't want to be the victim of longing for something really extraordinary and not achieving it. This failure, had to be a small obstacle and I had complete faith within me that I could overcome it. And I did.

Currently I am in grade 11, and I successfully graduated my class 10 with a percentage of 92% from CBSE board. The hardwork, the support of my loved ones, my passion and my knowledge led me to one of the most memorable triumph in my life. 

I would like to conclude by telling, that 2021 was a chaotic year. But, amidst the chaos happening in the world I found contentment, chivalry and comfort. Learning the importance of time and putting it to an economical use, was the wise decision I made for myself. Being confident, grooming myself, motivating were some of the habits I developed in due course of time. Adopting and guiding my life with principles and values like discipline, optimism, stoicism and individuality, brought a me a new and a better version of myself, that only and always strived to reach the pinnacle. 

The journey had lows and highs, and all I had to do was to be patient and courageous enough to withstand it. In the beginning I did have flaws. But overtime, I became Impeccable and so did my journey of 2021.