Published 20:19 IST, January 25th 2019

From her last day in Swat Valley to her first day at Oxford Univerity, a nostalgic Malala Yousafzai takes up the '10 year challenge'

The 10-year challenge that spread like a forest fire on social media brought in everything from memes to puberty-hit photographs, political campaigns, and stories of a decade apart. Hopping on to the bandwagon with the trend, Malala Yousafzai too penned down the difference in her life within a decade. 

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10-year challenge that spre like a forest fire on social media brought in everything from memes to puberty-hit photographs, political campaigns, and stories of a dece apart. Hopping on to bandwagon with trend, Malala Yousafzai too penned down difference in her life within a dece. 

As people began sharing ir stories of 'growing up, growing older and growing stronger', making Malala stalgic, as she thought of her 11-year-old self kcked her memory. 

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Remembering dark days in dearth of peace under Taliban, when she lived under "terrorism and violence" whereas she wrote, firing and bombing became ir daily wake-up calls. 

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11-year-old, concerned for her freedom and future, and wanting to re and write, embarked on a journey with her far to vocate for women's right to attain education. 

 

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"As an 11-year old, I worried about my future and my freedom. All I wanted was to put on my ink-stained scarf, walk through streets, sit on our old wooden chairs inside those cracked walls, pick my pen, open my book," she said.

She wrote a diary that was published by an international publication and reing se entries a dece, she hears "skepticism, stalgia, hope and caution" in a young girl's voice. 

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Remembering everything that unfolded in 10 years and how Malala from a schoolgirl fighting for her education, became voice for every girl's education. She said, "14th January 2009 was my last day of school in Swat Valley. And 14th January 2019 was first day back to lectures for my second term at Oxford University." 

Pakistani youngest bel laureate, concluded her thoughts saying, "It boils down to this: When most leers think of all problems in world, 130 million out-of-school girls are t at top of list. y are concerned about ecomies, shifting centers of power, conflict and geopolitical mechanics. Never mind that educated girls could solve a lot of se problems. y have short-term focus of today, t tomorrow."  

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19:52 IST, January 25th 2019