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Dearest Hometown,

 Hey There...

I am Manya Arora, a 16-year-old brown girl who is currently completing her 11th standard and is obsessed with writing and trying to change the world by telling some little realities that we usually face in our day-to-day lives. 

Hey fam, I hope that you all are doing good. So here I am back again with another blog and I hope you all will read it once.



Being a child growing up was always on the top of my list. I had this thought that once I grow up I'll be independent to make my own decisions, to have late-night parties with my friends and I would relish life. But growing up made me realize that being a child was so lively. I still remember being a toddler and waiting for evenings so that I could go to the park. This city was really a good place to live in, no matter how messy my life was but still, this city is as exquisite as something could ever be. That first day at school was a bit daunting but I managed to settle in and make new friends. I agree those friends aren't there anymore but still those memories are always gonna be buried deep inside my heart. Time passed and sunsets and listening to music started giving more quietude than playing with friends. 

I know that I hate this city for certain reasons, especially for all those breakdowns I have faced here but I do love the part that I gotta capture many memories while experiencing those phases which were happy phases at a time. I hate the fact that some things didn't happen the way they were mapped out but still I have an immense amount of souvenirs where I cried and smiled too. Yeah, that goodbye with my favourite person was tough but still, I managed to learn what that particular phase wanted to teach me. I love you for all those best and worst phases and I will keep loving you. No matter if I leave you for certain reasons but still every day sitting on a chair and seeing pictures when I used to live here would be the best part of my day. I hate looking back but still, you are something I will continue to have in my heart till the end. Thank you for teaching me how to love, how to move on, how to overcome my greatest fear and many more but the best thing I learnt here was to love myself a bit more every single day. It was tough but it was worth it. In the end, no matter how toxic people were in here but still that younger self is proud to be in here.

No matter how much we hate people living here but it's really tough to abominate the city in which we were born and brought up. We faced those phases and we managed to conquer them too. Everything that ever happened made us mature. Let that go and let your younger self be proud of this place because it did so much good to you. You deserve gaiety.


I hope that you had a good time reading it out. Have a good day ahead<3



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