By Tushar Shekhar
Everyday we open social networking sites we see a bunch of winners trending especially on LinkedIn Facebook and Instagram, but what about others I mean the “Losers”. The story narrates about Shivendu Prakash who belong from a middle-class family of Hajipur, a small town in Bihar. His father is an engineer in govt department of the state. Starting from his early days when he was born it was a no moon day, so people believed that he was a blessed boy, but just from the age of five he started remaining ill and his parents become very distressed and they took him to different doctors who stated that these disease will remain with him till lifelong and he had to adjust with them from now onwards. The Boy soon after developed much interest in study and started getting good marks in not only academics but also extracurricular activities comprising drawing, speech, chess and other type of competition. But sometime he became very sad as not only his health affected him but many children started teasing him for his looks, as he has extreme dark complexion, but his mother had a great believe on him and she always use to tell him when you will become young enough these facial colour will not matter at all to anyone neither these people who tease you will remain with you always, just focus and concentrate on your studies. The thought really changed that boy mind and he scored 94% in 10th with the title of “Boy with Super minded memory power” from his school teacher. Now it was a turn for higher studies, since the city from where he belong lacked good schools and coaching he applied for Central Hindu Boys School of Banaras Hindu University and many other good schools of Patna, the capital of Bihar on exam and number basis. He got selected everywhere but since his health problem was a major issue his parents decided to settle him on Patna itself which was just 16 km from hajipur his home town, Initially the days where good he purchased a cycle and started doing school and coaching, but since the fooding of hostel we all know is not that much good he started developing serious issues and started living very few time in hostel and majority of time in home, gradually as time moved he was expelled from school for not giving enough attendance and from coaching also for securing negative marks in three consecutive mock tests, people started making fun of him, his hostel warden called his parents one day and told them that your son rarely lives here so why to spend so much money on his hostel fees.
Take him to your village and teach him farming, study is not his cup of tea. This matter really was a great shock for a boy who cannot tell the world that in how much pain and agony he was in those days, but more than boy his mother felt ashamed and after moving from there she told the boy “I had not grew you till this age for listening these thing, and the very next day she left her home with some of the items and shifted to Bihar’s capital with only one thing in her mind “My son was a winner, is a winner and will be a winner” and I will do everything for his success. She lived with him for two years till he completed his intermediate with again excellent marks of 89% which used to be very tough those days. Now since he has almost spend one year of 11th class in illness it was difficult to crack IIT exam so he tried for All India engineering paper but failed to score good marks in all attempts and was very far from getting NIT or BIT of the state, all hopes got shattered and the only thought that was running in his mind was “Will I be able to complete my college degree” without the support of my parents, finally with all tension in mind he took admission in a very renowned private engineering college of Bhopal, because his parents were suggested by someone that Bhopal has a good climatic condition and good ambience so he will not feel any issue living there. He promised himself before living his home “That I will never do anything that will hurt anyone and will try to help everyone” always.
With this his Bhopal chapter started, he took mechanical engineering in the college and got good marks in both the semester of first year but in all 180 students there were no girls, it was his adolescence age so he tried many girls in college but got rejected every time, sometimes on the basis of branch, sometimes due to comments of his naughty colleague. Finally he used some other trick, he was good in computer and English, taking it as strong part of him he took admission in local English institute just to impress a girl and also get succeeded, but soon realized that her girl was someone else girl in the past who use to call her after breakup too and later on her girl ditched him and moved to someone else within three month, he got shattered as getting a new girl friendship was hard for a mechanical guy, but his room mates were good they told him that as long as there is water there is fish and similarly there are girls, and no boys in the world can fulfill all desire of girl, so don’t get upset try for other luck now, he soon made three more girlfriend and after four breakups he realized that retaining gf is about to impossible for him, so he started focusing once again on studies and got selected in three big IT giants on campus and off campus placements as well a private bank on good role, since those were years of IT boom majority of college students either core or non-core was taken by IT company itself, furthermore he also got selected by two good management college for MBA programs. When everyone was thinking that his bad time has gone and will not repeat just then he was attacked with major chicken pox disease which took him to fever for long days, after recovering he became so weak that for one year he was not able to do anything and slowly in front of his eyes he saw all opportunities moving away from him, and when he became fit enough there was nothing left for him so in order to move his career he took admission once again in local MBA college of Patna, where once again his destiny was not in favour of him and his all friends were getting campus offers but in spite of being a good student of college he was not getting any recruitments, he started applying for off campus jobs and got selected in a semi govt firm on the basis of engineering degree, but soon after two days of this result a result of earlier campus placement was announced and he was selected in a top notch dairy firm too, now he became again hopeless when there was no job no company where hiring him, when he got a job campus placement also came in his favour, now the situation was so much difficult for him that his principal told him to go for dairy sector while mother told him to go for govt firm, he thought for a while and realized that life give very less time for a child to become hero of his parents and this was the time for him, his mother has done so much for him till date, now it was time for him to show, but seeing this his principal cum director got angry with him and expelled him out of the college for breaking campus placement rules. He told his friends who was telling him that he had taken a wrong decision that even if this college would have been top management college, he would have left it for his mother.
Since Bihar still has craze of govt and semi-govt jobs he started getting marriage request and finally fall in love after seeing a girl’s photo and decided to marry with her but his fate has something else for him after engagement he came to know that the girl was in love with someone else and don’t want to marry him, after some day their relation broke and the boy got shattered again, seeing their son depressed his parents married him to a relative daughter who was beautiful enough, they moved to Munger district after marriage where again his health problem started to arise and he took job transfer to Patna for better medical facilities, but there also his destiny took him to hospital on break of dengue in Bihar in 2019, his office manager got angry with him and told him to give explanation for taking too much leave, once again he started remaining sad, and after recovering from dengue one day when he was sitting lonely on bed his father came to him and asked him reason for his mood down swing and he silently spoke “Why Only Me”, There are so many people in the country, why just me always. The response from his father was awesome, son look you started getting ill from the age of five, many child born and die before five, you did not completed 12th standard with your own support, many people intelligent than you did not even get chance for higher study due to lack of money , you got so many jobs what about those who did not get any, you were kicked out of your PG college for choosing a good option what about those who completed the whole course got in private firm and kicked out of there, your first engagement was not successful but what about those who didn’t even got married at the age of 33, now your boss tortures you for not being loyal employee to the company because of your health but he cannot do anything more as it is a govt firm, think what would have been the situation now if you have chosen your campus placement job. See no one is a winner and loser till one chose to be, from the very first time when you felt yourself in a bad situation you thought yourself as loser, and so you are till now,
I and your mother have always believed in your potential and so you are the “Ace of card” for us.
Believe in yourself the world will start becoming bright and everything will start looking beautiful,
These words for his father were golden for him he started once again and was praised as best employee of department and was later selected in book of records for his achievement.
“The world will look exactly the way you want to look at it”
Try a hassle-free life and see the change in you
By Tushar Shekhar
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