“That’s it. I am done,” Aarav threw down his books as he looked at his phone with dampened eyes. He fell short despite his second attempt at the entrance exam. He cursed his luck and locked himself up in his room.
He wondered whether he will ever be able to achieve the same success as that parents so effortlessly seemed to have. The thought of others’ expectations was weighing him down.
I am a failure. What will I say to mom and dad? God, what will happen to my future? Aarav felt like his brain would explode until he heard a knock on the door.
It was his mother, Tara.
“Leave me alone, ma. I am a failure. I’ve let you down once again,” Aarav cried.
“Don’t say that. This is just a bump in the road. You can try again,” Tara tried to pacify him.
Aarav was having none of it. “Easy for you to say. You and dad… you have everything. You are successful, famous, everyone respects you.”
“Okay, you could say that. But it didn’t happen overnight. Your father and I had our fair share of failure, dejection, disappointment,” Tara began to reminisce. “I still remember the day when your father was fired from his job.”
“Dad was fired?” Aarav interrupted.
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