Category Archives: Student Narratives

Volunteering at a cat welfare centre was the most enriching and heartwarming experience for me! I have been ardently passionate about cats forever, but what I saw that day brought out a sea of emotions in me: sadness, empathy, joy, excitement, and bountiful love. I saw cats with fractures, with burns, with injuries, and…

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Navigating the Storm Within – A Roadmap to the Anxiety Disorder Introduction Anxiety – a seemingly harmless word that carries the weight of an entire universe within its syllables. For those who’ve never experienced its folds, it might appear as just another facet of life, something to be managed like any other challenge. But…

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Grey November hollow wails of the wind the trees whimper, as the wind injures them. it cracks the branches in half and the leaves slowly wither away. the streets, barren and cold no one around, the lost souls roam. ‘autumn’s here’, says a voice down the road numb fingers, she rubs them against her…

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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Here’s what we’re thankful for in 2022: http://hnm.dpssharjah.com/gratitude-diary-2022/

I’m sure we’ve all heard that our fates have already been written before we were even born. However, I don’t think that’s how it works. It’s not merely just our ‘fate’, we ourselves write our fates through the decisions we make. Either you choose to figure out how to get through all the difficulties…

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Day by day, the bars of my prison kept increasing. Fear and desperation clung to me for I had no idea when or rather if those barricades would ever be taken down. Every new day started turning into a nightmare. Over a year ago, I could never have imagined my freedom to be bound…

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The COVID-19 pandemic is something new for our generation. Even if there have beenpandemics like this during our lifetimes, they have not exactly reached a scale like the NovelCoronavirus has. The pandemic has mutated the way people used to think, and many norms ofmodern society. We have seen new rules and regulations, the rise…

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I’m grateful that the pandemic didn’t affect my family on an economic level or by the virus, to be precise. But towards the end of last year, my mental and emotional health did deteriorate. So did my physical health. Let me start from the beginning. I joined our school in 8th, and that year…

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The pandemic began with hushed tones of pessimism. Faced with a predicament that was so unheard of, people were unable to fathom its severity, toying around callously until they witnessed its wrath. This challenge presented its own unknown nature, thwarting all plans and edging everyone towards turmoil of all sorts. From parents sacrificing to…

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