They say you cannot be successful if you haven't failed. Well, since I am on my path to success, let me put forward a few failures that let me down at some point of time. But hey! here I am, writing to you, hoping to be a part of your organisation and share my success story a few years down the line.
Having lived in over 8 cities, I have been exposed to different kind of people, their cultures, their thought process and I have learnt along the way. This story is from my engineering years from 2013-17, when I was living in Vellore. I was an average student all my life, so in Engineering also, I did not hope to suddenly become a topper. But given the reputation of my college, I did expect a good placement. I believed myself to be a smart and confident individual to land myself in a good company with a great package. My grades were good enough to be considered for the medium level companies. However, by the end of the 6th semester, I couldn't score well enough in one of my core subjects and got myself a backlog. I was struggling in that subject since the beginning of term and this backlog took a huge toll. We had companies coming in the 7th semester and I was not eligible for a single company that whole semester. It was a heartbreaking for me to see all my batch-mates score amazing packages and here I was, knowing I was a better candidate, but couldn't attend placements. I almost was depressed the whole semester. I felt I had let my parents down and more so, let myself down.
My mother one day felt my gloom and told me a story. In my childhood, while she was teaching me how to walk, I had a stool with me that I always pushed around as support and never let it go. One day, with my stool beside me, I was looking into the mirror and playing by myself. She slowly took the stool away from me and when I turned, I took big steps towards that stool, almost running after it and that's how I started walking. The situation was the same now. Something was taken away from me for my own good. I was distracted for a while but now it was time I started running towards my goal again.
I decided to give my all to that subject, work on it, asked my friends for help. Next semester I cleared the backlog, got placed in TCS with a decent package.
It is all about falling and getting back up. That's what my mother taught me and that's what I'm going to keep with me for the rest of my life.
