My father died when I was young, and my mother raised me with limited income. Over years, she saved around ₹6 lakh from pension and small deposits. She trusted me to manage it because I had started earning.
I invested aggressively and later used futures to recover losses. Almost everything disappeared. Telling my mother was the hardest conversation of my life. She said, "I can live with less money, but I cannot live if you destroy yourself over it." I have been rebuilding that amount monthly ever since.