Footprints on a Rocky Road

Riddhi Gulhane

11 years

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A cute introspection, the places she went, emotions, and the person I became.

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As all of you know 2025 has come to an end. It has been such an eventful year that I am titling 2025 as "The eventful year".

But if you ask me personally I would title 2025 as “The rocky road“ because we went to many road trips.

A few of the events taken place in 2025 are that famous people like Ed Sheeran and Lionel Messi came to India, there were a few tragic incidents like The Palgham attack by Pakistan and The Air India plane crash, and famous movies like K-pop Demon Hunters and Saiyaara were released.

But in my life, a found and lost a bunch of friends, learnt how to buy clothes on my own and find out about useful investments and useless investments.

This year has been a roller-coaster of emotions. All the wars were scary but my victories made me happy.

2026 was like light in a dark room, since it was a dark time.

I say this every year but this time I mean it, this year went by way too fast.

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My goals for 2026 are to -

• Explore 12 new places (preferably villages)

  
  

• Read 150 fantasy books

  (I was inspired by the avid reader award in our school)

  
  

• Cycle regularly for 30 minutes

  
  

• Write a children's fantasy book