THE POWER OF BEING DECISIVE by Lovepreet Singh Dhillon, Karamjeet Kaur Brar, Sanpreet Kaur (little bear else holmelund minarik TXT) 📕

Love hired the best photographer of the city and the event organiser also although it was bit expensive, but he managed everything. Venue and the date of marriage was finalized, and it was January,15th of 2017. There was five days of function at home prior to the marriage. They enjoyed that five days a lot as these days will never come back. Unfortunate thing about that time was not any of their relative stands for them or helped them. Everyone was behaving like they have nothing to help them and inside they all were not happy for Love’s family that how could they find a good family and life partner for their girl that’s why they did not want to help them. Once a while Love and his mother did not get sleep for a night as they needed 50k rupees in the morning for the payment of something but god was with them whenever they needed something they always got a way to overcome that situation and in that morning one of the Love’s friends gave money to pay that expense.

On the day of marriage Love’s sister were looking so pretty, no one was looking as beautiful as her. She had worn a beautiful dress designed by the famous designer of Punjab. Emotional time came during the evening of that day when she had to leave her family and go with her new family. Everyone was emotional and each eye was wet that time even the all relative because this is the most emotional situation in their life. Love and his three cousins brought their sister to the car from the door of the hall on a traditional cart.

It is a ritual in Indian culture that bride’s brothers brought the bride from her home to her new home as in the modern era they brought their sister to car only or Love and his cousins did the same and in few minutes she left for her new home.

It was the last year of the graduation of Love. He was done with her sister’s marriage and she was happy in her new family. Her husband was living in Canada so after two months of marriage her husband went back to Canada, but she was still here in India because she did not get her visa yet. She had applied for her visa and everyone was waiting for its result. Now, Love’s family was owed high debt of around million of rupees and there was no source of income. They had as his father already lost his business years ago and even before his sister’s marriage they were having income from his sister as she was doing job but now she went to the new family and Love had no source of income, these were consequences of Love’s decision but he never lose the hope and always stayed happy but after some time situation were getting a worst face because the venders from whom they owed the money started asking for their money but Love was not even able to pay the interest that time. They were having hopes from the government that they would get money from them as they won a case against the government on their land. They had land dispute with government from last few years but even after winning the case government was not releasing the funds yet. Government’s delay made the situation very difficult for them and in that situation Love just did his graduation with good marks.

Now, it was the time for Love to find a job for earning bread and butter for his family as he was the only hope now for them to earn something. Love started giving interviews, visiting different offices for job but everything went in vein. He was not getting success in getting a job. It was around 4 months of unemployment for Love after graduation, when he met with a guy in temple where he always goes in the morning that guy has his own distribution firm of pesticides and fertilizers. Love told him all about his situation and as a kind gentleman that guy whose name was Vishal showed some sympathy to him; he asked the love for his mobile number at the end and promised him that he would help the Love as much as he can. Vishal did as he said he called Love after four days of that meeting. Love went to his office and Vishal told him about the company name YARA fertiliser. Vishal told him that it is a multinational company and they want to establish their business in Punjab now so they need young employees to work in fields who have graduation in agriculture. Love’s profile was perfectly matching the company’s need, only thing he needed that time was the reference and a chance of interview in that company. It was confirmed by Vishal as Vishal has good relationship in this field, he arranged interview for the Love by giving his reference, but only problem was Love had to travel 500km from his home town to give interview but Love did not think second time he said yes I will go for interview. He went to the venue of interview by train because that was the only mode of transport, which is cheaper as travelling by bus is expensive, which he cannot afford that time and Love was fully prepared for that interview as he researched about the company and company’s products thoroughly, which made him confident during interview and helped him in getting the job. Yes, he got the job that time. He was so happy for it. His family was also very happy for him. Now, he was able to earn something for his family.

 Love got his first job in YARA fertilisers, which is multinational company. He got appointed in his hometown as this company was new in Punjab (India), so they needed local employees for the field job, in which he had to visit farmers of all the villages comes under district Bathinda, for which he needed a bike as he did not has one and he was not able to buy even, so he decided to use his father’s bike for his job. He started visiting fields and farmers and explained them about the company and listen them for their problems in the farms, so that he can help them if possible with the products of his company. He was doing well. There was no senior above him in the district. He just needed to report on WhatsApp to his regional manager who could barely visit his area, once in six months, yet he was giving his best to establish the company in the area, even the distributors of the company were happy with him. After the two months of his job he made a decision to do another job. He tried his best to get another job and finally he got an offer to do another job with good salary and with higher position, but if he decided to do that job then he had to leave his hometown as well as quit the first job. Love made a decision to not accept that offer it because he wanted to be loyal to his company. He did not want to leave them like this as that company made him able to earn bread and butter for his family.

No doubt his salary was good as fresher but not enough for fulfil the needs of Love in which his family’s expenses, interest of the debt and most important thing expenses for his music was not getting covered. Love needed a musical instrument called harmonium for practicing his vocal but he was unable to save money from his salary after covering the other expenses so he made a decision to do part time job along with it and after some struggle he found the cashier’s job in the grocery store, where he goes for 4hrs a day in the evening and 6 days in the week, which helped him in earning extra for him. So his income has been increased as during day he was doing his field job, visiting farmers and in the evening 6o’clock he worked as cashier in grocery store till 10o’clock of the night, so he was working from 9AM to 10PM. After 2 months of double shifts he was able to buy ‘Harmonium’ for him.

He was so happy because he bought something first time in his life with his own earnings. It was the one of the best days of his life. He did not sleep that night because he was playing that instrument for whole night in happiness. That day he was happy for his decision of doing double shifts because in the beginning everyone was asking him to not do this as it would affect his health but he did not listen to anyone and stayed stick to his decision of double shifts.

Love was earning good as he was doing double shifts that time but again it was not enough for paying the debt he owed during his sister’s marriage. He was unable to find the way out from that debt; it was stressful situation for him. On the other hand, his sister was in Canada with her husband. She always asked the Love to migrate to the Canada, but he rejected it as he did not want to leave the home. In his field job whenever he got opportunity of promotion, he had a situation that he had to migrate to another city to get that promotion which he always rejected. At last he realised