EASIEST WAY TO SUCCEED.

Dev Shankar
3 min readAug 4, 2022

I always wanted to do a lot for my family because Indian culture is something like this:

1. From childhood we are taught to respect elders.
2. Protect our every step.
3. Help the poor.
4. Always worship God.
5. Learn to live with less money.
6. Be content with what God has given you.
7. Always stay with your mother and father and serve them.

What did they themselves learn from the world?

1. Always compare your child with other children.
2. Putting the burden of your expectation on him from childhood.
3. Holding her at every step and taunting her instead of teaching when we makes a mistake.
4. Unnecessarily doubting us all the time.
5 Taking away our freedom.
6 Motivation to do job only (be safe and secure).
7 Make us aware of our weaknesses all the time.

What were they supposed to do?

1. Whatever you do, we are with you.
2. Always trust your decisions.
3. Nothing is more precious than your dreams.
4. Don’t compare yourself with anyone.
5. All problems are temporary.

I was never able to get out of my troubles because their experience of living was imposed on me in such a way that I could not get out of that illusion even if I wanted to.

If I leave the family, who will take care of them?

I wanted to become a film director and I broke my barrier and left everything and went to Mumbai.
Neither I had any friend there who was already working nor any relative with whom I could live, after 3 years of hard work, I got work and after that I never sat empty.
After working for 4 years, the same situation has come again today.
I am not being allowed to go back and have been forced to settle down in Delhi.

I am not able to convince them that Mumbai is very costly and at present I am not able to earn enough to give.

The family members played all the emotional cards and they were able to do so because I was not paying the money at home.
Today’s situation is such that I am unable to go to Mumbai, there is no work for me in Delhi. I am being forced to do any work for money so that the dowry can be collected for the marriage of sisters till the right time because it is my duty as an elder brother.

Career,dream,money all cost the same,your family in India,if they support you from heart,then you will be called god of your field like Sachin Tendulkar,and if he doesn’t get along then oblivion will not support you till you die Will leave and all the time we will suffocate and die like I am living today.

I pray to every parent who is reading this, your child can achieve anything, just save his wings so that he can fly.

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Dev Shankar

Film maker and Author of "ZAMEEN KE PARINDEY", Storyseller.