Throughout everyone’s lives, every person faces challenges. These challenges help people to grow, be it through failures or successes.
Throughout my life, I have faced my own share of challenges. I had repeated class 4 and I was ridiculed by my whole school, even the people I called friends. I got very low marks throughout my academic life, there is no excuse for that because, today, I know that I could have done better because I would say I am wiser now than I was back then. I had several family problems and some of them had affected my mental health very negatively. There were times when I felt broken and I wanted to give up. I felt like I was falling behind, and my friends were all goal oriented and going forward in their lives. I felt like I was disappointment to everyone around me and I did not know how to change that. But today, I can hold my head high and say that I am have changed my life. I have become a student at the Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya. I have goals and ambitions that I am working towards and my family has never been prouder of me.
Whatever I went through, no matter how badly I wanted to give up, I did not. I kept trying. I stayed resilient. I may not have known what to do in the future, at all those points of time, but I could tell the difference between right and wrong. I knew giving up was wrong, so I never gave up. I kept trying and that is how I overcame all my challenges, that is how I have become the person I am today. A person who is goal oriented, who has people who are proud of him, who people look up to, who is capable of motivating others around him. I had hit rock bottom and I came right back up with my head held high and I do not intend on stopping as I go on with my life.
Everyone has their own share of problems, I am no one special. There are people who lose a parent at a young age and must work in order to support their families, people who have a very difficult time dealing with depression and addiction. I think, we should all share our stories, motivate others, empathize with others, make them feel that they are not alone and help them pull through their difficult times, because I know that I would have liked someone to do all these things with me when I was down in the depths, it would have made everything easier. No matter how big a problem is or how relevant it is to us, if someone considers it to be a problem, we should consider it to be the same and be there for that person. We should always be there for each other, because that is best thing we can do for someone going through a difficult time.
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