Overall, January has been a pretty good month! I advanced to state completion for DECA, maintained good grades, and made some great memories with family and friends! I also had a few meetings and posts for Stories Behind Success and this has definitely been the highlight of my month. I truly love talking to peopleContinue reading “January Reflection!”
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Let your inner beauty shine!!
Hey guys! Happy Wednesday!!I just wanted to take a moment to reflect and talk about something that has been at the back of my mind for the past couple of weeks. A week ago, my family and I watched a Telugu movie, Shyam Singha Roy, starring Nani and Sai Pallavi (if you don’t know already,Continue reading “Let your inner beauty shine!!”
2021 Reflection + 2022 Goals
2021 was overall a pretty good year for me, but looking back on it, I wouldn’t say I have accomplished a whole lot. I did take my SAT, and although I didn’t reach my goal, I did pretty decent. I also finished the last year of my Indian Carnatic undergraduate certification through a university inContinue reading “2021 Reflection + 2022 Goals”
Stories Behind Success: Introduction
It has been 6 months since my last post and I wanted to give a quick follow-up and an introduction to a new project. Since my last post, I felt that my blog didn’t really have a purpose to it. I didn’t know what to really write about and I was running out of ideas.Continue reading “Stories Behind Success: Introduction”
My Journey to Blogging
It’s been a little over 1 month since I started my blog, so I thought it would be the perfect time to share my story of how I got here and decided to start this blog! For about the past year and a half, every night, I would pretend as though I am talking toContinue reading “My Journey to Blogging”
Feeling lonely and coping with it
If you guys have read a previous post of mine (also linked here), I talked about my struggle with self-confidence and how I am trying to overcome it. Today I’m going to talk about something along the same lines: feeling lonely. As mentioned in the other post, I used to change myself for every personContinue reading “Feeling lonely and coping with it”
Empathy
A couple posts ago, I talked about 5 different things that I learned over the pandemic. In this post, I want to dive deeper into one of those 5 things: learning to have empathy. We all have our own vision and perspective towards life. It’s the way we look at things due to our uniqueContinue reading “Empathy”
5 things I learned over the pandemic
The pandemic taught me so many different things about life… here are a few: 1. Have empathy – The first and foremost thing that I learned this pandemic season is to have empathy. Living with your family members all day every day is fun and an amazing bonding opportunity, but each of us has ourContinue reading “5 things I learned over the pandemic”
My Struggle with Self-confidence
We all have some sort of struggle. Something we are trying to work on constantly. My struggle is my self-confidence. One of my resolutions this year is to work on my self-confidence. To know that I am perfect, no matter what others think of me. My decline in self-confidence began in 6th grade. Until then,Continue reading “My Struggle with Self-confidence”
Bringing Awareness
The pandemic has affected each and every one of us in many different ways, a major one being Mental Health. Unemployment, loss of loved ones, quarantine, social distancing, quarantine, the list is endless. These are all causes for many people’s mental health to suffer and for people to feel helpless. So today I am hereContinue reading “Bringing Awareness”
Akshara Akella 