Goodbye teenage!

 I just realized that it's not the last year of my teenage anymore but the last day of it. From tomorrow, I won't be a teenager anymore. Though I never realized it when I stepped into my teenage but all those years were great. 

In fact, it started with my first achievement. It was the year 2014, I was 13 back then, the first year of my teenage. That year, I secured my first gold medal at the State level Taekwondo Tournament. I still remember, at that time I was kind of overweight and not much confident in life. I was too shy. Also, I was way too inferior complex. I always felt as if I'm not that good at socializing and interacting. Also, used to think that people don't really like talking to me. But after that tournament, I too had something which I can tell people I'm good at. So, that event filled me with a little confidence in life. 

For some reason, I quit taekwondo in 2015. I still sometimes wonder that I could have gone way too far in that sport had I not quit. Anyways, I switched to cycling that year. My parents gifted me a mountain bike on my birthday. It all started when one day I was cycling with one of my friends and we cycled way too much. He suggested to me that if I do this much cycling every day, I can lose all my extra weight very easily. And I took his advice too seriously and I'm actually thankful for him. I lost almost 20 kgs. I started with 3kms in an hour daily and within a year, I turned into a professional cyclist. I was doing 12kms in 45 mins daily. In 2016, on the first day of my 10th standard, I showed up as a transformed person. I was not that overweight and unconfident person anymore. Actually, this is the point when I realized that physical fitness plays a major role in our overall growth. Not only it makes us fit but also makes us confident and engaging as a person. 

It was winter of 2017 when I found that photography interests me. I started by taking pictures of plants and trees in my house. I liked doing that and I kept on doing it. Soon, I started taking pictures of different places and views. And by the end of 2018, I had a huge collection of photographs.

If I talk about 2019, something remarkable I did that year was I made an amazing physique. It took around 6 months but the efforts were worth it. 

Now, we all know that everyone is stuck in their homes when the pandemic happened in 2020. But, this doesn't mean I haven't done anything these 18 months. I have done a lot of things, it's just I want to keep these things a secret for some time. In fact, this blog is also one of those things. 

In the end, apart from these things, there are a lot more things I have done in all those teen years. I made a lot of friends. I enjoyed a lot of things. I learned a lot of things. I experienced many things which I'm fortunate about that I've gone through them so early in life so that I do not make those mistake ever again. I stepped in as a shy, unconfident, and socially awkward boy, but now stepping out as a confident, enthusiastic, and someone who can address a large audience from the stage, so obviously not a shy boy anymore. Though some dreams remained dreams, still it was a great time being a teenager.

Have a great day!