Great words brother, and truly your journey is amazing and full of ups and downs and i am happy to hear that you are proud of your journey and you should be because you walked an dynamic path.
And in my opinion people who start from ZERO or from downside then it give great satisfaction after we achieve more steps in life.
And yes, freewrite is one of the great thing because in these type of posts we write what we feel, our practical thoughts, our situations and our daily life and for sure readers can easily connect with our writings for sure.
And awesome to see that you are writing from the hostel and that's the beauty of enthusiastic work means, our hard work need no particular place and we can create any place for our work.
Wishing you an great day and stay blessed. 🙂