I was born and brought up in the City of Joy and my city has taught me to be happy and cheerful. But life was never smooth for me , it was more of a rollercoaster ride, with more downs than ups. The struggle started with my birth, due to premature birth I was different from other babies, I was weak and underweight and spent most of the time crying and it took me more than a year to speak my first word which was Maa-the person who changed my life.
My early days of school were a struggle, when my classmates were writing essays, I was still trying hard to figure out the alphabets. Teachers suspected that I had dyslexia but my mom didn’t give up on me, she made sure I succeeded. She spent hours making me learn in the most creative ways, thanks to her that I passed my exams. I was an introvert in school and would stammer whenever public speaking was involved. But my mom taught me that life is about moving out of your comfort zone, she urged me to participate in debates and MUNs and that changed my life. With every conference I saw myself developing as a more confident person. My Class X boards also turned out to be a horrifying adventure for me, a week before my first exam I was down with fever and malaria, now I had two options- either to sit back, cry and take a year drop or to accept it as challenge and do my best. My doctor and relatives suggested me to choose the first option but my heart told me that I could do it. Challenges always excite me so I decided to write my papers, I appeared for my boards with 104 degree fever and still managed to get 94%. The only reason this was possible was because I believed in myself and knew that my hard work and efforts would never leave my side.
Constant determination and attitude of never giving up has brought me so far. Ironically, I am the same person who used to fail in Mathematics in primary school and I ended up doing engineering and being among the top 10 of my batch. There is magic among all of us, we just need to believe in that magic and work hard and aim high because it is said “Shot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars”.