Words do have the power to change a person’s life. And I have experienced my fair share of it. My adamant love for science is one of  the simplest example I can give.     
  When I started my schooling, I was never interested in learning, much like many others out there of that age.  I even never understood that one, two three.. is same as  ‘oney, randey, Mooney..(pronunciation of 1,2,3.. in Malayalam). I was that much stupid ( that doesn’t mean stupidity left me, it is still there except in another level ). It was even difficult for me to pronounce PHYSICS and it’s ironic that now I am a master grad student in Physics

I was like that few ,who people look down upon all the time. “A man without a future hope”  a common phrase repeatedly quoted by my dear teachers during the PTAs (judgement days). In fact, as a child, I was also demotivated by all these.
And time went by and I was in my 6th grade.
The term science had just Brexit from Environmental Science. (though individual names like physics, chemistry, biology we’re coined later during 7th grade) And during one of the class, my science teacher (her name, sadly I have forgotten ) asked every one of the students to build a working model.. A simple apparatus with a battery and light.. Just to show how electricity conducts through copper wires.

Everyone one including me was happy for the homework(funny how homework we’re a reason for  joy in the childhood and a pain in the teenage and youth)
Everybody on the very next day brought there work. Many with led bulbs and batteries.
I, on the other hand, put a little effort and made it in such a way that, I made a junction in between the bulb and the battery.  It was made like that, so that when I placed different objects in that junction only a few made the light glow and some not…

Seeing my work; for the first time in my life, a teacher appreciated me. ” Eda shastranja, very good (Oh scientist, very good)”😁😆😅 in front of the entire class and I felt the ‘Eureka’ moment in my life. That day when the bulb lited up it also switched on the light in me.

Her simple words of encouragement had ignited my spirit on pursuing science as a career and in time… Physics became a part of my life…

All the young people who aspire for anything, remember your smallest act of encouragement, your smallest words of appreciation to those who struggle to move forward can bring about great changes…

Spread knowledge and love… and keep on living..  For Knowledge is a True Revolution.