Thursday, January 6, 2022

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurship: An honest confession

#Newyearpost

I was just thinking about how the last 2 years have been for us and everyone at large. 2020 and 2021 for everyone has been quite challenging and emotionally draining. Now if you narrow it down to entrepreneurs, the challenges faced were humungous. Every aspect of an organization has undergone a change. The world changed so fast these 2 years. Almost seems like a flash.


Now if you further narrow it down to entrepreneurs who have just started in these years or a year prior(like us), the way an entire functioning underwent a change has been too rapid and sometimes too overwhelming. Entrepreneurship runs purely on HOPE every single day. Things start moving in a particular direction and when things start going well, a COVID wave hits us and we are back to ground zero. Now we get up and gain the strength and move forward and another one hits us. This time we are at least aware but the hit is still a hit.

The same thing happens with the third wave now. There is so much anxiety and uncertainty everywhere YET AGAIN. But with all these, just like the graduate class of 2020/2021, I feel we entrepreneurs who have started our journey in these years have grown so much personally and professionally. No Crisis management lessons of MBA school can prepare you for something like this. Its a lot of effort emotionally to regain and rebuild and that's how life teaches us lessons and makes us stronger. We have lost, we have suffered and we have still gotten back to function and that's MORE important.

In the end, all these are just adding up to the stories you tell your close ones or your children on how we all together survived a major pandemic.