The Lamest Excuse for Business Failure

Times sure are changing.
Sometime back, I decided I wanted to do my own stuff, to become an entrepreneur.
I had expected lots of thrill when i make this decision public. I was sure that, coming from a bengali middle class family, my parents would never let me do it. For those unfamiliar with bengali middle class values, let me tell you, unless you are good for nothing else, you never start a business and this is viewed to be highly insecure. People would rather marry their girls to a person who is in any service of any kind and of whatever value, rather than marrying him to a businessman. What was worse (as I had thought), I am the only child of my parents, so they do not have anyone else to realise their dreams through. Again, I plan to be a social entrepreneur, rather than a profit making high earning one, which makes it all the more undesirable, one was sure to think that you are good for nothing and must have surely been fired from your high paying, comfortable job to be doing something as crazy as this.

I was in for a surprise (and disappointment). My father was so happy he hugged me when he heard that I have decided to be on my own. "Not worth working so hard for others, with no time for yourself and your family. If you got to do it, do it for yourself. So, now that you have decided to do it, do it soon. Do not waste any more time." From then on, whenever I talked to him, he would repeatedly ask me to come back and start soon, even chide me for delaying my resignation. My mother was just plain happy that I will atleast be based at home, so she can cook for me and add to my already bulging waistline.
The whole thrill of fighting with the family, of tense moments and of heated arguements, of probably telling people at a later date when I am a successful entrepreneur that I had to fight all odds to start what you see today, to go against my family to reach where I am today, the thrill of proving others wrong, was gone in one stroke. 10 years from now, when CNN interviews me, what romantic stories of my struggle will I tell them?
So now I lack motivation. If my venture does not do well, remember it was because my parents were too supportive of it. Also remember that my first post on my first blog for my first venture, started out with an excuse to why it would fail.