For four years and few months, I have been blogging about my insights and perspectives about life. I used to write opinions for our college paper, until I found an avenue to continue my passion for writing through this platform.
Blogging is a form of free expression. Yet I find this platform effectively useful to inspire people through my stories and thoughts about life. While I was online a day ago, a student from Kerala, India added me on Facebook. He messaged me:
was a gud student till some personal and emotional issues crept in my life & made me a poor student...people startd calling me a failure..i lost my confidence 2 bounce back..tats wen i searchd google 4 some help...and it was ur blog which gav me hope.
This message struck my heart. The student said he was searching something about bouncing back from failure until he chanced my blog dated May 04, 2008 with the title Bouncing Back from Failure. In this blog, I discussed my failures in school and how I responded to it. During that time, I also read a book by John Maxwell: Failing Forward.
The student told me he excelled in college but struggled a lot. Here's an excerpt:
struggled a lot during that period..
was the turning point of my life..
i topped in everything till that...but lost my way after this..
and by God's grace,i showd some come back attitude..and got a seat in one of the gud collgs here...
but succumbed to depression again..and failures followd...
cud never raise my bar...felt that people dragged me down by calling me "failure"...
Imagine, that blog three years ago still made a significant impact. The student also acknowledged God's mighty grace as it helped him recover from his failures.
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