What do you want to do? What do you really want to do?
You give ~8 hours every day, 5-7 days a week, to your job. That’s around half of your waking hours. You are lucky if you enjoy your job. Congratulations! You can stop reading. What follows from here is not for you.
But if you don’t, that’s a lot of time that you spend doing something that you don’t like. And you have to live your life in the pockets of time you get outside your work or the breaks between the work. And weekends. Maybe that’s the reason we see hordes of people in tourist spots on weekends, especially loooong weekends. A long weekend is the ultimate fantasy of a working professional who lives his life outside his job.
The acceptance that this is the only way to live, that making a living cannot merge with enjoying life, is self-destructive and illogical. You don’t have to run a race that you don’t enjoy, irrespective of how good you are at it. You can make your own race. A race that you want **to run and not because the society or your family wants you to run, or your peers are running. You are your own individual. Respect that.
Save some money and take a shot at what you want to do. It’s not as risky as you think. The chances are not as slim as you think. It will be a big injustice to yourself, a huge waste of potential if you don’t. Here, the journey is truly the reward and not a cheap tagline to sell you something. You don’t need a detailed plan, just a rough idea. Getting back a job is not that hard. The excitement, learning, and joy you will get is not possible anywhere else. Because nobody can make you feel true to yourself but you.
The risk of not doing it is much, much more than the risk of doing it. The regret is too heavy.
Jun 8, 2025
Bangalore
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