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This Sto­ry and Sto­ry­line By Study Bud­dy Share­line is intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and copy­right­ed to © Pra­teek Sin­ha

A Battle Beyond Books: Abhay’s Journey

Introduction to the Series

Life is unpre­dictable. Some­times, the biggest bat­tles are not the ones fought in the out­side world, but the silent wars with­in our own homes.

This series is not just about suc­cess and failure—it’s about strug­gles, resilience, and the choic­es that define us. Some sto­ries are real, some are imag­ined, but all hold a piece of truth with­in them.

Today’s sto­ry is about Abhay, a boy who once saw his father as his hero, only to real­ize that heroes too have their flaws. A boy torn between his dreams and a bro­ken home, who found his way through the chaos.

The Names and Gender in this story are Altered to maintain privacy concerns.  The Storyline and This story is the part of Sinha Sir’s Experience with his beloved Students. 

The Perfect Illusion

For Abhay, his father was a super­hero. The strongest, the smartest, the best man in the world. He would often tell his lit­tle broth­er sto­ries about how their father had con­quered the world, how their moth­er was the most lov­ing woman, and how they were the luck­i­est fam­i­ly alive.

Every­thing looked per­fect. But not all truths are vis­i­ble.

When the night fell and the house turned silent, a dif­fer­ent world emerged.

A world where their father drank in secre­cy.
A world where their moth­er wept alone.

Abhay’s moth­er hat­ed this habit. Every night, after putting the chil­dren to sleep, she tried to stop him. Every night, he refused. It was a hid­den war, one Abhay and his lit­tle broth­er nev­er knew existed—until one fate­ful night.

The Night That Changed Everything

It was 2 AM. Abhay woke up, gasp­ing for breath.

A bad dream. Peo­ple shout­ing. Voic­es scream­ing.

But it wasn’t just a dream.

He could still hear the shout­ing. And it was com­ing from inside their house.

His lit­tle broth­er woke up too. The two of them exchanged a ter­ri­fied glance. It was their par­ents.

For the first time, they heard it all—the anger, the frus­tra­tion, the accu­sa­tions.

Their moth­er begged, “Stop drink­ing. This is not good for our fam­i­ly!”
Their father roared back, “I will nev­er stop! You don’t con­trol me!”

Abhay’s lit­tle broth­er broke down, sob­bing. He couldn’t under­stand why their world—the per­fect fam­i­ly they believed in—was falling apart.

See­ing their chil­dren awake, their par­ents sud­den­ly stopped. There was silence. They dragged both broth­ers back into their room, locked the door, and then, after a moment of qui­et, the shout­ing start­ed again.

That night, nei­ther of them slept.

The Cycle of Hope and Disappointment

For the next few days, the house was silent. Uncom­fort­ably silent.

Min­i­mal con­ver­sa­tions. Forced smiles. A frag­ile peace.

Then, one evening, their father came home with toys, ice cream, and new dress­es for their moth­er. It felt like old times again.

Abhay and his broth­er breathed in relief. Maybe it was over. Maybe their father had changed.

But then, just three nights lat­er—

The shout­ing returned.
The fights start­ed again.
The cycle con­tin­ued.

This time, it was worse. Now, they fought even before the chil­dren slept.

Abhay was drown­ing.

NEET and JEE were already a huge bur­den—Physics, Chem­istry, Math­e­mat­ics, Biology—all at once. His lit­tle broth­er need­ed him too, and now… his home was a bat­tle­field.

He tried to talk to them. Begged them to stop. Told them, “I have my exams! I can’t focus!”

But they were too lost in their own war.

A Ray of Hope—A Mentor’s Words

Slow­ly, Abhay start­ed break­ing. His stud­ies suf­fered. He stopped enjoy­ing learn­ing. His focus was gone.

One evening, exhaust­ed, he was scrolling through Study Bud­dy Share­line—a web­site he some­times used for quick revi­sions and study sup­port.

That’s when he saw it—an option to share per­son­al strug­gles with a men­tor.

He hes­i­tat­ed. Was this even worth shar­ing?

But some­thing inside him pushed him to write an email.

For the first time, he poured his heart out—about his par­ents’ fights, his bro­ken con­cen­tra­tion, his strug­gles. He didn’t know if he would even get a reply.

And then, one day—an email arrived.

From: Sin­ha Sir.
Sub­ject: Your Bat­tle is Sep­a­rate from Theirs.

In that email, Sin­ha Sir shared his per­son­al num­ber and a time to call.

That night, Abhay called.

For the next half an hour, he spoke every­thing. He cried, vent­ed, con­fessed.

And after lis­ten­ing patient­ly, Sin­ha Sir said words that changed his life for­ev­er—

“Abhay, this is your life. Your deci­sions. What hap­pens around you is sep­a­rate from what hap­pens inside you. At the end of the day, no one will ask you about your strug­gles. They will only ask if you suc­ceed­ed or not.”

“Your par­ents are fight­ing for their own rea­sons. They will have their good moments again. They will bring hap­pi­ness again. They will cud­dle again. But if you let your­self fall today, your time will nev­er come back.”

“You can’t fix them. But you can fix your­self.”

A Decision That Changed Everything

It was the hard­est les­son to accept—to ignore the chaos and focus on him­self.

But Abhay chose to fight.

Every night, when the shout­ing start­ed, he put on his ear­phones and played audio expla­na­tions to drown the noise.

When he strug­gled with con­cepts, he used quick knowl­edge bites for revi­sion between emo­tion­al break­downs.

And when­ev­er he felt weak, he would read that email again.

It wasn’t easy. His lit­tle broth­er strug­gled too. But togeth­er, they kept going.

And today—Abhay is in a Gov­ern­ment Engi­neer­ing Col­lege.

His par­ents are proud of him. And, per­haps because of time, per­haps because of guilt, or maybe just fate—his par­ents final­ly stopped fight­ing.

But even if they hadn’t—Abhay had already won.

Lessons from Abhay’s Story

1️⃣ Your life is YOURS. The world around you will always be noisy, unfair, and messy. But your future depends on what you choose to do, despite the chaos.

2️⃣ Strug­gles don’t define you. Nobody cares what you went through—only whether you made it or not. So make it.

3️⃣ Help is every­where. Some­times, the right words at the right time can change a life. A men­tor, a guide, a study tool—anything that keeps you going—can become your life­line.

4️⃣ You can’t change peo­ple, but you can change your­self.

Abhay’s par­ents had their own bat­tles. But he refused to let their war become his defeat.

And that’s why he won.

Dreams Don’t Wait

No mat­ter where you are, what you’re fac­ing—one day, your future self will look back and either thank you or regret you.

So what will you choose today?

Will you let the world con­trol your sto­ry?

Or will you write your own?