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Never Lose Hope

Narendra Maheshwari 2017D2TS1239P

This is a story of the most irresponsible boy who was not fond of taking any responsibility
and was totally dependent on others for any type of work. He was lucky enough to take birth
in a wealthy and named family and his parents were very busy in their professional life and
were not able to concentrate on him. Hence it is to say life is unstable and is not that simple
for everyone. Due to some clashes, the investors of the company stepped down from the
company due to which his parents lost everything whatever they have earned till the date.

This all happened when the boy was in his early teens. His parents couldn’t bear this loss and
a heart stroke took their life this was the time when the boy was around 12 years he was
totally baffled. His relatives also boycotted him and advised him to go to an orphanage and
stay there as they all are very busy with their life. For a few days, he stayed at his friend's
house but after some time he was convinced to find some other place. The boy was totally
broken as nobody was accepting him. He cried a lot and spent a few days on the road and was
not getting proper food to eat. He realized that he had to change his destiny and really needed
to work hard so he started looking for some odd jobs at first many of the shopkeepers denied
giving him a job as he was underage but soon he convinced a shopkeeper to keep him. The
shopkeeper looked at his condition and kept him as a delivery boy who used to deliver small
items for daily usage at the nearby apartments or buildings.

Now he was getting proper food to eat and a small room was provided to him by the
shopkeeper where he used to live but he was not satisfied with his job so he requested the
shopkeeper to allow him to work at other places also but the shopkeeper denied and abused
him badly. But the boy being stubborn started looking for more jobs which would match his
profile of delivery boy so he got a job at a restaurant where he worked as a pizza delivery boy
in the evening shifts and this was not known to his shopkeeper. These jobs were paying him
very few that too on a monthly basis which did not satisfy the boy but one fine when he was
coming back from the home he saw people waiting for taxi and the taxis were not giving
them lift and some were demanding more money. This struck him and he decided to step up
in the taxi business but he was not familiar with riding a taxi and was not was having enough
money and driving license to drive or rent any taxi so for few more years he continued as a
delivery boy and saved a good amount of money then attended driving classes and rented a
taxi.

By this time, he was 19 years and he had started driving a rented taxi and left his job as a
delivery boy from both the places but this taxi business didn’t work much. But he never lost
hope and he decided to make the taxi available all the time so he started driving the taxi for
24/7 at very reasonable rates and this thing really worked after some time he bought his own
taxi after some time he became the most trusted taxi driver in the city then he bought 7 taxis
and appointed drivers for it and also use to rent some of his taxis. Soon he started traveling
packages and he wanted to make this service easy and convenient for customers so he created
an app for this purpose. This was the time when the lady luck smiled at him and the boy was
able to earn his place in the top-notch business person of India, that too at the age of 25.
Hence he was not satisfied with this also. So he started working harder and within a few years

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