Surviving from the verge of falling into darkness can result into a strong individual. Once a great philosopher said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”. When the sun had set in all direction for Tibetans in Tibet we had no other choice but to take refuge in Nepal. Darkness that setting sun had brought, gave us opportunity to follow the shining fairy which revealed a hidden track for the opportunist like us. My friend “Khola” (river in Nepali), flowing towards Nepal became our ultimate guide. Sun had just risen and there was nothing besides opportunity ahead.
I grew up treating life as a race and if I did not run fast enough then someone else would step over me and proceed ahead. After racing with more than three million sperms in 1995, I was born in one of the poorest towns in Tibet, which lies under the Chinese regime today.
In 1997, in the middle of night, we walked the trail of tears all for several days with the fear in mind and hope in our hearts. Many people fell sick. We were one tough family who managed to survive. My pregnant mother carried me while my father carried my other three brothers. Upon our arrival in Nepal no one had as much tears like I did, my mother recalls.
I didn’t see my parents for another decade. They left for America and I stayed with my uncle in Nepal. I had forgotten my parents’ voice until one day at the age of four, when we finally spoke on the phone. They told me I was going to go to school. I had never seen school in my life however; with the money sent by my parents from America it was possible for me to get admitted. A new race started in school and I wasn’t going to allow anyone to pass by me. I achieved first position in all classes as for every year just to please my parents.
Races were competed, visas to America were rejected and eleven years passed. It felt as if the sun was never going to rise again, until the U.S Embassy approved visa for my brothers and I. Even after all those years, I had no trouble identifying my parents when I arrived in New York on December 23, 2008. But I soon discovered that the sun had set for them. My father had lost his grocery store and my mother was now working twelve hours a day to support our family. I received the Arista award, the young scientist award and first position in chess competitions. Grades became my way of coping with the loneliness within my heart.
This Race finally subsided in high school where the sunlight remained on my head. I have produced exemplary work and have maintained a not pressured academic transcript. I have also filled my heart with my passion: Computer. I want to help others the way that I have been fortunate enough to write this introduction with a smile hearing from ear to ear that with this new vision for computer and technology, I am able to bring the Tibet I will always remember to my new home here in America. Now I see that what I thought was the setting sun, was actually the rising sun of opportunity.
I started a printing business at the age of 17, helped local restaurants in my neighborhood create modern style websites at 19 and I self taught trading stocks and I recently started trading cryptocurrencies. Today, I am pursuing my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and hope to specialize in Data Science or Artificial Intelligence. I have personally learned starting business to trading stocks through mistakes and failures, so I will have blog post on business, trading, college, programming so feel free to follow me. I am a STUDENT, I am a ENTREPRENEUR, I am DREAM CHASER.
