I spent my childhood in a nonchalance manner like every kid of my community did. Unconcerned and also unacquainted about the real world which was full of struggles and tribulations at every stage. In late teens when I got a glimpse into the real world, in the form of competitive exams conducted for admission into elite universities in India, my protective environment gave me a feeling that I can crack them all.
That feeling was turned into a genuine belief when my peers and teachers started thinking of me as a bright chap who belonged to the so called creamy layer of the students, based on my performance on some preliminary examinations. But they were all in for a surprise when I failed to clear any competitive examination.
Out of the past 8 years of my life, I’ve given competitive examination in 6 of these years across sectors such as engineering, masters in economics, GRE and GMAT but without any success. Took various coaching sessions apart from sacrificing my personal life completely in order hold a belief which I had developed in my late teens true.
All the efforts which went into the belief were not to prove any group or set of individuals about my potential, but to maintain the faith I had in myself and my ability. The faith which I somehow managed to grow during my undergraduate years and never lost even after repeated failures. It was this faith only which was driving me for all these years and formed the base of my resilience.
Other secondary help which I got to overcome all the challenges I faced came from my friends and family, who had initiated this faith