Whats your biggest worry in life?
My biggest worry is that I won't be somebody who matters...I'll just be another drone going through life without making a difference.
What should be the major concern of life?
Bro…There is nothing more important than your future and family…I you ask my advice what should be your mojor concern of life, I would simply tell nothing means absolutely nothing in this entire world is more important than your future and the well-being of your family…Good luck.
What was your family’s biggest concern about you leaving home to live in a very different place ?
That, given the hardships, I might not ‘make it’ and return home soon after.Until that point, I had been an extremely sheltered, pampered child… and that’s an understatement.I had never worked or earned a single rupee in my life.I had NEVER entered a bank and had no idea what the inside of it looks like or what debit/credit even meant. Financial sense was, for all intents and purposes, a big fat zero.I had never prepared a single wholesome meal in my life and neither did I know how.My mom packed my lunch each day and my dad made my morning tea cooled to just the right temperature so that I could drain it down my throat as soon as I was out of shower.Doing groceries — What? How? Huh?Helping around the house was for the house-help. Not for me.Traveling alone even within the city was daunting because I was unaware of the routes, did not know how to drive, and often relied on others’ sense of direction to take me where I needed to be.My dad drew me a picture of inside of the International airport on a plain paper hours before I left India because my ignorance had given me a panic attack (I think I still have it).I could go on but you catch the drift… I was a blank book… Naive and inexperienced… the last person one would want to send off alone to a far away city, let alone a far away country.And yet, somehow, my parents mustered the courage to pack me and send me off to the US. They quite literally threw me in a pond when I did not even know how to swim.I think it was the biggest gamble of their life — emotional and financial.They were aware of the very real possibility that I might buckle under the weight of my new life and new responsibilities. That I might have a total breakdown and they will have to let go of all that they have invested and bring me back home. That the odds of any success of any kind were really not in their favor.They went all-in.We won.I am eternally thankful to them for placing their faith in me and taking the chance.It turned me from a damsel in distress to an independent functional woman.
Now that you are older, can you describe your biggest worries as a teenager?
Failure. I was terrified of letting everyone down, especially my family.