“If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don’t fight, you can’t win!” ― Eren Yeager (the anti-hero of Attack on Titan, who fought to find freedom, but ended up being a slave to freedom)
I learned more about the stock market, mainly long-term investment, and I realized one important thing in my life: my parents want me to become a doctor or a government employee, but I am not interested in either. How to prevent a future clash? That question ran through my head at that time, and I wanted more time to learn about the stock market. I also learned that to invest and get rich takes a lot of time, and if I wanted to achieve my goal of becoming a billionaire, it would be very, very hard by just investing a salary. Then I got into business and realized that the way to get more money and invest more is by being an entrepreneur, and I started liking the idea of creating something that people can use.
I finalized that this is my way. Entrepreneurship is my path, and I declared it to my family, but they strongly opposed it. They said it was risky, that many people fail, and only one in a million can reach that level of success. They suggested that I should just do a job, as my nature demands, like being a doctor or a government employee. So I started hatching a plan.
How to avoid a future clash? I was sure of one thing: if I scored good marks or even not in my plus two, my parents would definitely take me to join one-year coaching for the NEET exam, which I didn’t want. How could I stop it?
Yes, I did something to stop it. At that time, I got a glimpse of the lengths I would go to get what I genuinely want. I don’t know how you see me, whether as a villain or a hero, but I want complete control of my life. So i started manipulating them emotionally.
I was not good at physics, chemistry, computer science, and other science subjects at that time. The real reason was that I didn’t know what I was learning; I didn’t even have a base. We learned things just to memorize for the exam, and after the exam, I didn’t even know a bit about the topic. No one cared at that time; it was all about the marks. I understood this. The problem of not understanding anything and just memorizing started rising in my 10th grade, and I saw it as an opportunity. I started learning till late at night. Most of the time, it was just an illusion; I watched movies and series at night, but my parents thought I was studying. When marks came, I had low marks, and I even failed one or two times in class tests (mid-term exams), not in the main exams. I used this to create a mask for my parents, showing that science was not my cup of tea. Eventually, they realized it too. One day, by pushing this illusion, my father told me to take commerce or whatever I wanted but just finish it. At that moment, I knew everything I was doing was working. My play of being a victim was a success. I slowly influenced them. I knew that if I suddenly told them I wanted to take commerce, there would be a clash even before the main one, so I used a slow and gradual approach.
There was no 10th exam for us (main exam) due to COVID-19, so they used marks from other exams and gave us final scores. I got 87%, which I didn’t expect! I was very weak at computer science, but I scored well in exams, so I got good marks on the final exam too. One thing was clear: I didn’t want to take bioscience because of MBBS issues, and I hated computer science because I didn’t even know what a simple variable was at that time. I wanted to focus on the stock market, investing, and business, so I planned to take commerce.
The nearest school offered commerce as course code 39 with computer applications, but at that time, I didn’t know that the subject would cover programming too. Anyway, there was no commerce course with political science near me, so I took course code 39. Since I studied ICSE in 10th and wanted to focus more, I chose the state syllabus for plus one and plus two to get more time to focus and learn what I wanted. However, state board 10th students usually get almost A+ marks, so I had to take a management seat, and there was only a small difference in payment for management seat for commerce, bioscience, or even computer science. My father asked me before signing if I wanted to take science subjects, but I stood by my plan: ONLY COMMERCE. I am sure that someday, I may return to the science field.
I had already told them that I want to take BBA after this and learn business. Some of my relatives said that even after taking science, I could do this, but after taking commerce, the fields are more limited. However, because of the MBBS issue, I stood by my plan: ONLY COMMERCE.