The power of YOU - by Devika Nambisan

I believe that being yourself has a huge impact. Writing has always been a nightmare for me. It gives me stress, and tension about my grades. I thought that using complicated words and thesaurus would get me better grades. But my thinking changed completely this year.


In the beginning of the year, I wrote my essays by faking and not being myself. I was just doing it for the sake of doing it. It impacted me inadequately as my grades were not that high.


After many essays, when I thought about the way I write and Mrs.Hill’s tips, I was disappointed that I could not achieve good grades. So, I decided to not think about grades, and I just tried to be myself and wrote whatever I felt like without using a thesaurus in the handouts like the ‘Blue Eyes’, which showed me the power of being myself. My try to be myself resulted in better grades. A mindset of trying led me to a different thinking about writing.


The experience of my change in grades prove that it had a really massive impact. Mine was a big impact however it can even be a small one, but it did impact my thoughts and my writing.


Even though it is such a small thing to be yourself while writing, it does wonders. My lesson was that when you be yourself you will see a gigantic change. The change can be anything, grades, happiness, anything. The writing was something that proved me the power of being myself. It took me almost an year to realize this lesson, but it was a lesson that was worth the time.