What if I Could Start My Own Business

Writer: Apoorva Vishwanath

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What if I could start my business? “Children, today’s homework is that you have to write your dream/ ambition and why do you think it can’t be fulfilled at this age of yours” said my English teacher in the online classes. English was the last period and I finished personal chat with my friend, Samika. As soon as ma’am ended the meeting, I removed my headphones and thought of doing the homework around 7:00 in evening and after dinner, I finally accepted to do it because there was no way I could extend it any longer. So, I wrote: There is something that I always wished to have… my own company of Craft creations that sells Home decors which should run on both physical and Virtual platform that would be a cross between Amazon and IKEA. Its name would be Handy Mandy. Well the almighty doesn’t fulfil everyone’s dreams and so I wouldn’t be able to complete it, at least at this age. I knew it was too short but I didn’t have any mood in writing pages and pages long… I felt drowsy and remembered something… Sleep. I had recently sewed my Softie that’s more likely to be used as a pillow, so I took it and went to the bunk bed in the other room where I saw my elder sister had taken the top part near the AC and left the bottom to me. I dumped into the bed and felt asleep… “Apoorva wake up, you’ve got a letter from someone.” Said my mom. I slowly creeped with my blanket on the floor and myself midway between the bed and the floor. My usual mornings were always like that. I looked at the window past the mirror which made a Rainbow reflection at me and I saw Dev, my dog playing with my dad. That’s something I can say you about dad… whenever he sees the TV, he sees programs about Animals interestingly and asks us never to disturb him. Perhaps he likes animals more than Humans. The time was around 7 in the morning. I took the letter from my mom’s hand and it got a little crunched up. I wondered who sent it to me.

The letter said: Dear Apoorva Vishwanath, The results of MagicKids is out and it is so pleasant to announce it to you… You have won Rupees 50000/- for getting the first prize… you have made our school proud. MagicKids have also offered you 15 days coding sessions!! Aren’t you excited? Here are the numbers you can contact for any help in regard: ********** ********** ********** Thank you Regards, Babahd Headmaster of Model School, Powdergalli, Opposite of Telangana govt Guest house, Hyderabad

Wow! That was exactly what I wanted. Perhaps this offer can make my dream business Handy Mandy come true… After a few days of hardwork I made my dream come true… “Apoorva, a girl of 10 years had started from a blog and now has an app and factories in several cities of Handy Mandy. Miss Apoorva, what would you like to say now?” asked a reporter from India News. “This was my dream… but was stuck between What if… But one day, I got to know that I had won 50000 rupees from MagicKids which was an International competition and got an offer for 15 free coding sessions, I was so joyful, changed my life.” I murmured. And before I could speak more, I fell down on the floor and realized that everything I saw was just a dream. However, the worst part was that it wasn’t even 10:00 in the night by the time I saw a whole dream of me becoming famous and my ambition still started with What if…