Aarush

It had been two months since I left the job. Sixty days of calls, meetings, pitch decks, promises, rejections. Every morning I thought today would be different — someone would believe in the idea, in me. But by nightfall, I was back to staring at my ceiling, calculating how much more time I could afford to fail. The startup wasn’t taking off. The leads were drying up. And the confidence I’d started with? Fading, like steam on a mirror.