hey,
i was a kid who loved building things and solving problems. and honestly, i still am.
growing up, i couldn’t get a remote-control car, so i found a workaround. i would save money, buy cheap model cars, and turn them into remote-control using discarded parts from old rc cars my friends had lying around.
and honestly, it was fun. i could spend an entire day doing that.
i also loved experimenting. i tried building several kinds of gadgets, , and plenty of other things i thought were cool. most of them failed, hahaha. but that never really stopped me from trying.
i remember my mom sometimes yelling at me lol because, i’d spend hours locked away in my room, surrounded by electronics, completely absorbed in whatever i was trying to build.
and when i wasn’t building something, i was probably watching discovery channel, discovery science, or history tv18. i was fascinated by how things worked, how the world had evolved, and what humans could create. i also watched a lot of sci-fi movies. actually, i love cinema. the idea that someone could imagine an entirely different world and bring it to life on a screen has always fascinated me.
looking back, most of the things i built weren’t useful to anyone else. they were just experiments made by a curious kid with limited resources and an endless imagination.
but maybe those little experiments were teaching me something i wouldn’t understand until much later.
when i was 14, i tried to build something for women’s safety. i didn’t have the knowledge or the resources to make it work, so it never got past an idea. but the reason behind it stayed with me.
as i grew older, i started understanding that building something meaningful takes more than just an idea. you have to understand the problem deeply before you can build a solution. you have to think about the people facing it, the circumstances they live in, and how your solution could genuinely make their lives easier.
during my first year of college, i tried building my first startup.
the idea was simple: a directory for startups. a place where aspiring entrepreneurs could explore what other founders were building, understand why certain startups succeeded, and learn from the mistakes of businesses that had failed.
but i made plenty of mistakes of my own. the startup didn’t work out the way i had imagined. but i learned a lot.
plot twist.
2026, i had to leave home just to survive on my own.
sometimes, life has to take everything away from you before you discover what it can never take away.
everyone has their own battles. i’ve had mine, too.
but beneath all of that, there’s still a part of me that existed before the failures, before the setbacks, before life got complicated.
for me, it’s that kid who loved building things.
the kid who could turn a cheap model car and a handful of discarded electronic parts into something new. the kid who spent hours experimenting, failing, and trying again. the kid who watched the world and wondered, “what if i could build something that makes this better?”
that kid is still here!
to be continued…
abhishek