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The Power of Choice: Shaping Our World in Just Ten Minutes

It was 6:00 am in the morning, and I woke up to a dusky sky as Bangalore had been experiencing rain almost every single day for the past two months. I woke up with a fresh, happy mind, ready to start the day with full energy. My next instinct was to grab my phone, which was charging next to my bed, and I took it with me downstairs. Even though I could charge my phone anywhere else in the house, I chose this spot, using the excuse that it works as my alarm clock. As I removed it from charging and started walking towards the kitchen, the first application I opened was BBC News, then CNN, and finally, I checked the news flash on Google. Navigating through the headlines, by the time I reached the kitchen, I had shifted from a happy, joyful, and relaxed state to worrying about hurricanes in the US, volcanoes erupting in another part of the world, and the possibility of a world war. My mind was now filled with concerns about what is happening around us and what the future holds for our chil