Are you compromising on your life?

 It had been 183 days since I've written the last blog. It was an amazing experience writing every day for a year straight. No matter how anxious or thoughtless it made me feel sometimes but it was something worth it. 

So, talking about 2022, it started just like any other average year. No strong goals, no commitments, no resolutions. Unlike the beginning of 2021, this time I couldn't feel the fire to do something bigger. Or maybe there was a fire that faded with my new social life with the beginning of college life. Until the end of 2021, I was not having a social life since late 2019. Isolating myself from a huge interaction helped me to identify my true self, and work on making myself good enough to make those challenging goals a reality. 

I wanted to experience and learn new things and try my hands on almost all kinds of things and so I filled out the application form for almost every cultural and technical society in the college. Unexpectedly, I got selected for all of them. At, first it was a dopamine booster. I felt as if I'm a talented guy who had just discovered his self-worth. Now, with this excited state of mind, I gave all of my efforts and time to these technical societies and tech teams. I compromised on my sleep, studies, and some good habits. Gradually, these little compromises turned into habits that replaced my highly productive lifestyle. 

Here, in college, I just realized that the majority has a very narrow mindset. Everyone wants to follow the same path. My seniors in one of the tech teams I'm a member of told me that if I work with all my efforts in the team, I'll get a position of responsibility in the succeeding year which will add value to my CV that will eventually help me get better internships and a good placement in the end. But, why do they expect me to do things the way they did? Do they think one joins a team to add value to their CV? This is where my thoughts mismatch with most of the people in college. 

After almost six months of being a part of almost every society and tech team of the college, I'm planning to take an exit from many of them. I've learned almost nothing and lost almost everything. 

I compromised on my two precious years of life for a good college to get a good platform to achieve my goals, learn things, and get a quality education. And not to build a piece of paper that lists positions of responsibilities and endless things people do to get placed to work like hell for the rest of their life. 

The goal is to add value, to do something that makes an impact on the people of this planet, and to live a life worth remembering on the deathbed. It's not just about making a living, it's about living a life. We live only once, so why compromise? Do what you always wanted to do. Make every second count. And most importantly, don't get influenced by the herd. There is a big rat race going on of which we eventually become a part. We lose ourselves in this crowd of aimless people. 

And, as I said, we live only once, then why live it with regrets? Don't leave regrets. Ask yourself what you truly want to do. Make a goal big enough that will give you the truest satisfaction of life in the end. We are here on this planet for a concise time, don't waste it doing useless things. Stop being a part of the rat race. Listen to your inner voice, and follow your passion, you will gradually make a path that will lead to huge success. 

There are a lot of things I've learned in these six months. And there are a lot of things still left to be done. I got lost for a while in this crowd but thankfully realized that I was going on the wrong path. So, let's now get back to hustling again and make some big dreams come true!