As a person, I am calm, patient, friendly and have a 1000 friends who aren't just random people but those who are well known to me. With high patience levels, I could tolerate anything done against me. Even for a person who isn't a friend, I would go to great lengths if they needed help. And if that's for a friend, then it would be much more effort.
But what changed in me to make myself doubt on every friend I made after?
It was moving to a new city and meeting people who you thought as friends. A new group of friends who you did think as your friends and you spend all the time and effort on them.
Time flies and soon you realise the hidden faces surfacing and bam, you have lost all your trust and you cocoone yourself away from the world and everything. There is a goal you had fixed - Crack the CAT exam - but eventually things have gone haywire and you have lost your focus and track of your goal.
Now what pulls you out of this mess. With loads of determination and straight-lining of thoughts, the trembles from the aim get sorted slowly and you crawl back to your old self.
And that's how I held myself out of a deep chasm of loneliness to come to where I am today as a pursuant of my dreams of completing my MBA.
- Adeline J Joseph, TAPMI
