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The author talks about her struggles in life and urges everyone to never give up, no matter what!
I grew up experiencing two sides of my personality while in school. Later in life, after turning 21, I realized the importance of the two most important characteristics of a human being namely, self-awareness and individuality.
I was 9 years old when I was diagnosed with a Pancreatic Cyst; Doctors gave up on me but my mother did not. She used to whisper in my ears every day, “I did not give birth to a loser; you have to get up and live”. I think that ignited the fire within me.
After my surgery in Delhi, I met the most important person in my life, late Miss. A Joseph who happened to be my principal in the school. She understood every child’s worth and she knew how seriously I took challenges to progress forward in life hence challenged me to score above 75% in order to continue with my classmates. I stared at her, yes you read it right, I stared at her and said to her. “Yes, I will”. After 4 months, I was standing in the same queue where my classmates were, ready to move to Grade 5 A. My heartfelt thanks to all the lovely teachers who knew how far could I go and here I am, expressing my gratitude for them.
The ability to fight against evil and the will to keep moving forward takes you ahead. You become what you think you can. As a woman, I believe in the power of love and kindness because the world needs you! It took me 2 years to understand what was my true potential (well, I am still on it). Thereafter, I appeared for NIFT’s entrance in 2013 and scored AIR 5. The year 2013 brought a lot of good vibes and celebrations for me on the personal front. Studying in an institution like NIFT, Mumbai for 4 years changed my life; the struggle was real but life is a roller coaster ride.
Before I conclude, I would like to wish you all a very bright future and earnestly seek your blessings. Live like there is no tomorrow!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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