Before the Pandemic, I was an optimistic person and now I’m a realistic person. A lot has happened in the span of the last two years, both good and bad that has changed me at an emotional level. I have always considered myself ” strong & tough ” and not the most sensitive person, but […]
Dear younger Urmi, I know you have always been afraid, from little things such as being caught by mom and dad if you went to the mall without their permission to the time when you wouldn’t try new things because you didn’t know what the outcome would have been, but today there are three things […]
2020 was one of the most significant years of my life- the year when I finally escaped my world of work, the year of emotional roller coasters. Ever since I began secondary school, I was always a focused person, always concentrating on my work and making sure my academic profile was the best it could […]
March 24th 2020, the moment when pandemic struck for real and a nationwide lockdown was declared in India. Little did I know that 2 weeks earlier as I left office for a new work from home scenario will I only come back after a year and half, little did I know that as we bid […]
The year 2020 had started of with big bang for me, until it got to a point where I couldn’t understand what I was doing with my life. I made one decision where I thought was right but ended up being wrong. But the whole year was a year of learning to love the person […]
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think” I kept staring those words written on the canvas hung on my wall. This quote had always been strangely so impactful to me. It took me back to an incident that had happened in 2016, when my flight […]
Two years ago, I had registered for an elocution competition. Now, this wasn’t the first time I was doing this, I’d been taking part in the same competition for many years. I’d stood at that same place, given my speech to the judges, the parents, the teachers, my batchmates, at least ten times. But this […]
2019. The start of a universal tragedy most of us never thought we’d witness. Over 200million people infected, and sadly 4.55 million deaths. Covid-19. I distinctly remember the first time it was announced. Everyone was ecstatic and thought it meant a holiday away from university, school and work. Until the realisation hit that this illness […]
Where do I even start? To the world it may have been boring, productive, infuriating experience, to me it was a learning experience. I was always a person who depended on other individuals, put others before myself and got influenced by people who had never wanted me to move forward in life. The pandemic forced […]
A day before my Biology exam, a lockdown was imposed in Bangalore. No one knew for how long we would have to wait to write our exam. We were all locked in our homes. The wait for my 12th board exam results and consequently my college admissions was one of the hardest waits of my […]
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