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The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream
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The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

Nidhi Chacko
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I grew up writing songs and knowing that I want to become a singer-songwriter. Sadly, it was dismissed as delusional by almost everyone I met. I still kept writing and singing. After what felt like years and years, I finally got to music school. Sadly, my time in music school was a lot of bullying by other students and teachers. I quit, and I gave up music for about a decade. This was a dark period in my life because music was something I always held on to. This was until I started writing the song, “Sleep At Night” for a friend who was going through a difficult time. It ended up being the song that helped me work through the bullying and issues, and start working on my music again.

Throughout my healing, I realized that I had internalized so much of what the bullies said, and these had become my new normal. To overcome this, I had to work extra hard on my self-talk and change it from negative to positive. So, when I drew the animation I wanted to fill it with positive self-talk and I finished the song with the aim of it being a self-love anthem that people could sing to themselves when they were experiencing negative thoughts too.

Now, I work on my music full-time and have been working on writing songs as much as I can.

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I was gifted this beautiful dream as a child…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

It gave meaning to my whole life…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I wrote songs all the time…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

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I just kept writing and singing…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I finally got to go to music school…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

But it wasn’t anything like I expected…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

The teachers and students would go out of their way to bully me…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

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I internalized their comments..

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I never understood why and I blamed myself…

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It took me about a decade of giving up but I…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

… choose to try again…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I worked on the impact of the bullying and self-love…

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I worked a lot on self-talk…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

It changed my whole life…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

It was hard but …

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…I reminded myself everyday

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I’m working on my songwriting and singing again…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

I’m so happy I can follow my dream again…

The Song That Saved My Life: I Sang And Drew The Story Of My Fight For My Dream

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Nidhi Chacko

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Hey there, Pandas! My name is Diana (though some prefer to refer to me as Diane, Deanna, and even Liana sometimes), and I am a Community Post Moderator Lead for Bored Panda. As my position title states, I am one of the people (employed Pandas for bamboo) over here who work with the community side of things on this website to ensure all is well, and while at that, I also help various creators and artists get recognition for the incredible work they do by connecting them to a large worldwide audience. Other than that, outside of work, you can find me brewing a nice cup of coffee, making a pizza from scratch, or baking brownies. I also love traveling, concerts, and cats (heavy on that, because I am a cat mom).

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Diana Lopetaitė

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Hey there, Pandas! My name is Diana (though some prefer to refer to me as Diane, Deanna, and even Liana sometimes), and I am a Community Post Moderator Lead for Bored Panda. As my position title states, I am one of the people (employed Pandas for bamboo) over here who work with the community side of things on this website to ensure all is well, and while at that, I also help various creators and artists get recognition for the incredible work they do by connecting them to a large worldwide audience. Other than that, outside of work, you can find me brewing a nice cup of coffee, making a pizza from scratch, or baking brownies. I also love traveling, concerts, and cats (heavy on that, because I am a cat mom).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulations! It's so inspiring to see someone else finally realize their dreams! Keep making songs :D I'm sorry you had to go through so much bullying and suffering.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hi Lakota :). Thank you- you’re so sweet to take time out to write this to me. :) May all your dreams come true too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congrats on realising your dream and writing that beautiful song! You're going to make it really far in this career <3 Also, nobody deserves to go through all that bullying that you went through :( But well done, super happy for you!!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulations! It's so inspiring to see someone else finally realize their dreams! Keep making songs :D I'm sorry you had to go through so much bullying and suffering.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hi Lakota :). Thank you- you’re so sweet to take time out to write this to me. :) May all your dreams come true too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congrats on realising your dream and writing that beautiful song! You're going to make it really far in this career <3 Also, nobody deserves to go through all that bullying that you went through :( But well done, super happy for you!!!!

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