Around November of 2019, a time when one is expected to be at one’s best, everything was going down hill for me. My personal life was a wreck, my physical health had gone for a toss after getting infected while serving at a peripheral health camp and my mental health was on a downward spiral because I felt my medical career was on the line. So despite doing well in all my mocks, and despite getting 99.8 in verbal, the pressure had gotten to me, My CAT-LRDI was gone, so were the my dreams of IIM-ABC.

This had never happened to me before, I had never failed at something that I had worked so hard for. I was devastated, frankly who wouldn’t be, especially considering I had left merit seats in prestigious medical colleges. That very night, I was fortunate to read a quote which said “You are not a failure until you start to blame” and I took it to heart.

So I took a week off to sort out my issues and tried to get my health back in order. From there on, I had only two targets - first was IIFT and then XAT. As if prophesied, I went on nail both the exams and converted IIFT-Delhi in the first merit list, the same goes for XLRI - directly covered both BM & HR in the first merit list.

Looking back having reached thus far, I am glad I didn’t allow some of the worst days of my life to define either my caliber or my future. I am genuinely happy that I took the leap of faith. However, I couldn’t have found the clarity & the confidence I have today, if it weren’t for my solid support circle and the mentors I was fortunate to have.