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🎾 When life doesn’t go as planned, create a new path!
I wasn’t picked for teams, couldn’t see colors in art class, and struggled with music because of tone-deafness. School? Not my strong suit either. My dad saw this and knew something had to change. So, on my 10th birthday, he made a bold suggestion—what if I focused on tennis, an individual sport that could open doors?
🌱 Finding Strength in What Sets You Apart
My dad saw beyond my struggles and encouraged me to lean into something different. Tennis became my escape, my focus, and eventually, my ticket to a brighter future.
💪 Embrace Your Unique Path
Instead of letting my challenges define me, I found a skill that allowed me to shine. Every morning, I woke up, trained, and gave my all to tennis. It wasn’t about excelling in everything—it was about excelling in something.
🔑 Remember:
Your journey might not look like everyone else’s, and that’s okay. Find what makes you unique and let it guide your way forward.
🌟 Take a chance on yourself and your talents. You never know where it might lead! 🙌
Transcript:
I was not getting picked on teams. I was getting kicked out of art class because I was colorblind. I was getting kicked out of music class because I was tone deaf. I was not good scholastically. My dad's like, what is going on? Fear, something else. Gotta be something else. Yeah, I think it was my 10th or 11th birthday. My dad and I saw it, were sitting on a park bench, and he said to me, he goes, Hey, we need to, we need to give you a better future. So I was like, Well, Dad, what does that? What does that? What does that mean? Right? He said, You know, I think you would do well outside of India. You have to realize I'm 10, you're 18, and mint, and my dad's throwing me out of the house. He says, We need to find you a skill where you can stand on your own, you can shine on your own, and that'll be the way for you to just get out of this infrastructure, because the country doesn't support who you are. We were sitting in front of two tennis courts, and he says, Can you cut it? I was like, What do you mean? Can I cut it? Says, Could you play tennis? Because it's an individual sport, it's played worldwide, and maybe this will get you a college scholarship, or it'll just get you out and hit a tennis ball until that day. So he said, what if we took a chance? What if we put academics on the back burner, art that you're not good at in the back burner music that you're not good at? And we only did this and we see if we can use the skill set like develop the skill set, and that's what we did. So I woke up every morning, played tennis. He said, your academics are secondary. All I did was wake up, train, go to school, come back, play tennis. I did that over and over and became decent enough where tennis became the ticket to leaving India.
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