‘Life is nothing but a roller coaster,
In this millions of dreams every human fosters.
Strength, courage, perseverance and resolve,
In the toughest of times even these dissolve.
A reason to fight is for what we all pray,
It will get easier but only if we do it everyday.’
Giving words of motivation and confidence is something I have always prized myself for. To be able to understand the situation in a jiffy, to sympathise with the other person and come up with solutions always came easy to me. Whether it did allow me to actually understand the other person’s pain or not is something I found out much later.
It was the first time that someone in my family was being admitted to a hospital for a proper procedure. The first time that things were getting almost impossible to handle. The first time that exams, entrance, family problem combined together brought me to an all time low. The first time that I had to watch my support system, my mom all weak, helpless and ill in front of me.
It was a life-threatening ailment that my mother had to go through. On top of that there was immense pressure of board examinations and the JEE entrance examination. The daunting task to balance all this along with taking care of my younger brother and looking after the house scared and bothered me. The news threw me completely off guard. It was the first time that words failed me. Doom and despair was the atmosphere throughout.
It was at that moment hat I realised the frivolousness of planning. My entire world had become topsy-turvy. Each step felt heavy, each task herculean, each day dreadful and each night dark and gloomy. To handle it all required strength-both mental and physical-that I hadn’t gathered. It demanded patience and an insane amount of courage. It was a challenge I was not ready to take on. It was a storm I had not braced myself for.
Finances was another hurdle becoming difficult to overcome. With a costly procedure and intensive after care requirement, it was a rainy day we had not saved enough for. It was at that time that Birla Sun Life Insurance(BSLI) came like a ray of sunshine. True to it’s spirit it helped us face this challenge of life and to not accept defeat.
With the finances sorted, with the operation successful and my mother recovering it was time for me to put all my efforts and energy into the tone thing that was most expected out of me. It was time for me to give my best shot and finish the race with glory. It was time for me to fight back and win this challenge by acing my examinations which I did. This is what BSLI’s support did for me. It gave me the courage to fight for the last piece in the puzzle which I did. I scored a booming 95 in my board examination and even made into a fine engineering college through my JEE examination.
‘Khud ko kar buland’ is what this episode taught me. It taught me to fight and keep my calm under stress and duress. It taught me to take life’s challenges head on without accepting defeat.