- By Shailvee Tiwari
- Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:01 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Viral Reddit Post: A heartfelt story of determination and hard work has been winning hearts on Reddit, as a man shared how he transformed his life and finally built a home for his family. The post, titled “Finally built a home for my mother,” has gone viral, inspiring netizens and earning them praise for his perseverance. The Reddit post included two striking pictures. The first showed his mother in distress, crying as sewage water had entered their rented house during heavy rains. The second picture revealed the dream home he had built for his family, symbolising years of struggle and effort.
In his post, he explained, "The woman in the first picture is my mother, crying like a baby as sewage water had entered our rented house because of heavy rain. And this was the breaking point for me. I come from a lower-middle-class family, and we have lived until now only in rented houses. We used to live in a government quarter which was hardly 300 sqft in area. Life was hard there. We didn't even have our own bathroom and had made a makeshift, kachcha structure of sorts that my mother and sister could use. My father and I used his office’s washroom as the quarter we lived in was inside his office. I hated every day of my life there, but I knew that that was the best we could afford at that time."
He went on to describe how that moment changed his life. "Now, after the incident in the first picture, something snapped in me, and after a lot of convincing, I moved my family out of that shithole to a better house. It was rented too, of course, and the rent was significantly higher than what we were paying earlier. I didn't even have a job at that time because I was still in college. I started giving tuitions to nearby kids and even did some odd jobs to earn some money."
Years of hard work and dedication finally paid off. "Now, after five years from that incident, I have finally built a house for my family. Of course, it's on loan, but it still somehow feels ours. The joy on my mother's face when we had the GrahPravesh pooja made me so happy, as if I had won some kind of battle and come victorious. I know this new house is also not very lavish or very big, but it is ours. So, homies, keep hustling and work for your dreams. One day you'll get there for sure."
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Finally built a home for my mother
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The post has since gone viral, drawing massive support from netizens who flooded the comments with congratulatory messages. "You are an incredible human. So many don't not even know what priorities they have the option for, yet you knew exactly what you needed to do and what was most important. That is true humanity," a user wrote.
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"Bas yahi toh chahiye parents feeling proud bcz of you, what else do u need from this life. This kinda flex that are actual flex fr. Unlike those, Salary and costly things are flexible. God bless you, bhai, you won in your life," a second user wrote. "Wow bro.... that's really amazing.... You literally became a man.... Idk why, but I felt proud of what you did... This will be a motivation to people who are going through tough times.. Can u share ur story if u don't mind? It will be encouraging to all people residing here this," wrote a fourth user.