This piece is a reflection on an unplanned entry into the development sector, and how the journey from resisting to be a teacher-training student to education researcher and practitioner in Udaipur unfolded. Through years of basti-level work and state-level curriculum engagements, the author learned that sustaining commitment needs more than idealism. It requires humility, complexity, and persistent, even if imperfect, practice and just the need to keep working.
