The Story of my life….
Life began in Chennai for me. I went through a lot of shit as a child. Being naughty was not taken well by my elders. With Daddy’s beatings and my Mother’s neglect I befriended books as a teenager. Due to rebuke by peers and my own sensitive nature, I kept to myself and hated school. I went to school with a zeal to prove my perfect health. Other than full attendance and moderate marks I have nothing to boast of from my school days. Though I later regretted it and wished I had paid more attention to my classes and got prizes to boost my pride.
I did my 5th and 6th in Ooty – Nazereth Convent. I grew up admiring nature and reading Nancy Drew novels among others like Archie comics and so on. I was a fast reader – took hardly a day to read a novel. And then we moved to Vadodara – Navarachna school was when I decided to study well. I did not even try for IIT JEE and thought the likes of medicine is something beyond my capabilities. Now I know, had I tried I would have got into both. I had my first experience with love with a boy in my school and even fooled myself into thinking its true love. Now I realize it was just infatuation which I took a lot of time to get over.
I studied hard and overcame my inhibitions when it comes to learning. I got 81% in 10th which is good given that the marks I scored in Hindi pulled my overall percentage down. Overall I was convinced with my ability in scoring marks in school. We moved to Coimbatore after that. The change of place made me slow to adapt to the school. However, Einstein’s theory of relativity and stories of Ramanujam and Gandhiji got me interested in studies once again and I did my 12th well scoring 94% overall.
I would also like to bring to light my feelings of patriotism which grew with my age. It is during the exams that cricket matches with Sachin Tendulkar – the hero made me realize the importance of “winning”. Yes, winning does matter. With all this success we were all set to move to Mumbai – the greatest folly of our lives. I had to struggle to get into college. Not because of my marks because of over-confidence. I waited till late to apply for a college thinking I will definitely get a seat in any college. But, I was wrong. By the time I applied all the colleges had closed their admission process. I so wrongly wanted to stand different from the crowd and told my parent’s I will not enter engineering college even if I get a seat. The irony was I had to crawl on my belly to get a seat in a good engineering college. The first day of college I had to face humiliation because of some low souls. I cried the whole day at what fate had befallen on me. I was slowly slipping into depression. I must say – I bravely fought depression for the first two years and then fell head long from my 3rd year.
Years just rolled by coping with depression, husband, in-laws, son and completing my BE. After 10 years, in my 30 years of age I went out in the fray looking for a job and then tried many things including Civil Services, website designing and development freelancing and inside sales.
Now at 41, I am leading a successful and happy life. Phew, that was a long and winding path that I have taken to say the least!! 
Moral of the story: Love, Life, Happiness, Peace of mind and Success takes time to come but don’t ever give up for it will definitely come to those who deserve it!
Thanks for your patient reading…..
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