In Her Blood: One Woman’s Brave Journey Into The World’s Biggest Problem
By: Abhineeta Raghunath
Tags: Startup, Motivation, Discovery

There comes a time in every woman’s 20s when she gets the most tempting opportunities from life- this is her prime and the biggest shark wants to snap her up for a fancy job, some good looking wealthy man wants her all for himself, and she’s sparkling at the altar of adulthood, with the energy of a waterfall. Let’s say she does take that job at a big company and marries that man, nobody holds their breath, everyone is technically happy. In short, her life is sorted.

Supriya Sharma’s parents want nothing more for her. Her quietness, intelligence, and radiance makes her too precious a daughter for them to gamble with. She’s got a job she’s great at, and she stands on her own two feet. With so much going well for her, they just want her to go on with her life that they know is safe for everyone. If they could help it, they would have her stay at home in Jammu, but Supriya’s talents need a larger platform and she took them out to the world with her.

In Hyderabad, Supriya’s blood hums with the pace of the city. It’s got all the space she wants and all the chill she needs. When she reaches her desk in the office, a small smile turns up on the corner of her lips as she slides her bag off her shoulder. Even though she’s made a few best friends in the ten months she’s been in this job, she keeps to herself during the day and gets her work done in a steady, rhythmic pace. All this time when she wears her everygirl veneer and does nothing out of the ordinary to attract attention, she is up to something that not many people know.

The people who think in terms of moving pictures would be disappointed to find that Supriya isn’t a secret spy agent, neither has she built AI technology that can take over the world. Supriya’s secret is one that not many people will ever need to know, but those that do chance upon it, find out because she saved the lives of their loved ones- Supriya devotes her time to find blood donors for patients battling for their lives.

Far removed from the eyes of her peers, she runs a small service called MyBlood and helps out families that put up a fight for their beloved. At first, her parents were entirely disconcerted by the prospect of their daughter taking calls from strangers and emotionally investing herself with them. It wasn’t until someone in their own family was in a medical predicament and she stepped up to help with her significant resolve and resourcefulness, that they fully understood the impact that Supriya was capable of having on the world.

Many of the things that Supriya does may not come across as completely logical. Since joining NowFloats last year, she has coordinated with various partners to help them reach out to small local businesses and strengthen the common man’s income. A job that doesn’t sound fancy might not make a lot of sense to anybody else her age. What nobody has noticed, however, that what she does from the love of her heart and what she does for a livelihood share the same philosophy- make the unheard man found, give him fresh blood to live, make his life better. That is just who she is.

Ask her WHY, ask her HOW she makes the time to carry the world’s weight on her shoulders. Why would a young and successful girl be any less care-free than she deserves to be? She looks at you like it’s a non-negotiable concept. She opens her mouth to answer, “The thing is…,” her voice snags in her throat, her breath gets caught in her chest, she blinks fast. “The world is such a selfish place,” she says “I just want to make it a little better for everybody.”

You can’t treat everyone to the things of the world. They’ll only shine in the unknown side of humanity- you let them find it and then you be grateful that you found them. And no matter who they’re with, everybody goes a great way ahead.