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Bouncing Back

What happens when you’re pushed to
the wall? You generally have a single,
and often desperate choice to extricate
yourself from the dire straits which you
are in. Making that choice infuses a
sense of hope premised on the notion that the
solitary nature of it will perhaps ensure that it’s a
sure way of enabling your revival of sorts. Hence,
the ‘hope’ becomes a concomitant of the ‘choice’
you make- largely because you attach an intrinsic
positive outcome to the hope.
However, this process becomes a whole lot
harder when the only choice is to accept the status
quo- the skies are too dark to let through a ray of
hope which you may be yearning for. We’ve all
heard (and largely believed) the analogy of human
lives as wheels with the eternal promise of
happiness even in the darkest of times. But when Rafael Das, VI, B (DS)
even that wheel stutters to a stop, the hope of languishing in a dreadful situation, it’s imperative
becomes rather elusive. Yet, one cannot but hope to construct this common resurgence—even if it
for the better- envisage a radically improved world seems a utopian fantasy given the bleak
where the past would seem just a forgetful interlude. surrounding circumstances.
Akin to watershed moments dotting history, instead
Ritabrata Chakraborty, XII Humanities

The Weapon called Positivity becomes physically, it is diagnosed by bone
only his/her mental state tuberculosis at a very
Of all the pain and depression, but which can keep him/her young age. The young
weapons it is the negative mindset perfectly fine. If a person man, however, did not
created by which plays the more is convinced, by heart, give up and even though
mankind, vital part of the suffering. that he/she is well, then he lost one leg due to
there is a Problems which seem he can survive any the disease, his
weapon which requires huge, can be easily trouble he may face. incredible mental
no physical labour to be overcome with just a One of the finest strength and positivity
manufactured. All the little positive mindset. examples of the impact helped him overcome
physical blows such a It is my belief that of positivity is WE the pain and he went on
weapon can deal, the however weak a person Henley, who had been to establish himself as a
successful poet.
weapon which I am
talking about can endure Such is the power of
the weapon called
all that pain and
sometimes even prevent positivity, which can help
it. The weapon, a person defeat any
undoubtedly, is positivity. obstacle he faces in life.
It is very different from a Positivity can be
gun, in the sense that considered as a friend of
you don’t have to get a mankind, if weapon
license to possess it. It sounds violent. But it is
can be possessed by in the hand of the human
anyone and everyone. beings whether they
The only way to possess would befriend it or not.
it is to believe in it.
Bevan Sarkar, VIII E
People suffer from
Devottam Das, VI B (DS)
(DB)