Challenges are a part and parcel of the life. One of the biggest challenges I faced to achieve my ambition was when I was a kid. I lived in a small village called Pandhurna, which is in Madhya Pradesh. It was around year 2000 when Chhattisgarh was separated from Madhya Pradesh. As a result most of the power station which supplied power to my and other nearby villages were now in Chhattisgarh .So, we often suffered around 10-12 hours of load shading daily. It made a number of things difficult like studying and other household chores. With time came inverters but still things were not that easy, it was a luxury to watch a television even after having one. Being a village ,getting into a good school was another challenge for me and my sister. Finally, we were admitted to the nearest and a well known school which was around 50-60km from my home. It used to take me around 1.5 hours to travel school . People living in my locality used to question my father that he just has two kids that too girls why is he taking efforts in their education and how is that going to benefit him. But my father who himself was a teacher already had a vision. Irrespective of the economic crisis we faced, he never let my studies affected by anything. I and my sister later shifted to Nagpur city to pursue higher education. Staying away from parents at a very young age was quite difficult. But time teaches everything and now after so many years when I look back, I think challenges actually makes you smarter and teaches you to be persistent.