“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
-Suzy Kassem
Such was my story. Living ,existing, surviving, in constant doubt and fear. Fear for the future. Fear of the future. When doubts grip you it’s like you are sinking and a chain around your arms and legs is pulling you under. You can’t escape it. You can’t hide. The only option is to face it.
Such was my story.
It was the days after graduating, with my eyes set on CAT I had already taken the plunge of going for my dream. It was exhilarating. Finally chasing my dream. Taking a drop meant nothing holding me back. No excuses.
But alas! Then came the doubts. As the days went past of slow and cumbersome progress. The questions came pouring in like a dam had split open, and the great blue kept at bay by it had come rushing into the plains, sweeping anything and everything in its path. “Am I good enough?” “Can I do it?” “What if I fail?” These were the questions I had no answer to. What was worse was I dreaded to look for one. What if the answer is in the negative? And so I kept going. With my eyes set at the price. One mock followed another. I kept at it. Days after days. Night after night.
“If you gotta dream, you gotta protect it.” So said Will Smith in Pursuit of Happyness. And that’s what kept me going. The dream of making it to a top top B-School. The secret is that the questions will never stop. But instead of holding you back they are what keeps you going because the answer is not on the journey, it is at the other side. It is at the destination.
Why Aditya Birla Group Is Big In My Life?
“An Idea can change your life.”
And Idea changed mine certainly. It was the winter of 2010. I had gone up to the hills of Solan on a school adventure trip. I was in 7th standard and it was the first time I had been away from my family. The first few days were full of fun and folly. Trekking through the mountains. Rappelling down walls. Climbing some others. I was living it to the fullest with all the caution thrown to the wind. Truly it was some experience. Learning to live on your own. Forming unbreakable bonds with the friends around you. Bonds tougher even than Ultratech Cement.
But it soon gave way to pangs of homesickness. I first felt ashamed that a boy my age couldn’t live without his parents for a few weeks. But I couldn’t shirk it. To make matters worse my Airtel mobile phone couldn’t catch a signal to save its life.
But an Idea changed mine. It came in the phone of an instructor who was kind enough to lend it to me. And so I finally talked to my mother. Telling her all the fun I had done, all the treks, all the walks. But well, all she was interested in was if I was eating well or not. The conversation stretched long, my emotions stretched thin. But the one thing held strong in all of this was Idea. In the mountains of Solan it was an Idea that changed my life.
