Is getting rich really that easy?

 So, just two more months left in this year and we will enter 2025. I don't know why but my inner self strongly believes that 2025 is going to be one of the most important years in my life. A year for which I've to be highly prepared and take it seriously and responsibly. Also, 2021 feels like yesterday only, when I was writing a blog article every single day, hustling out to make my first income source, entering college, doing each and everything to checklist all those things I had on my list of goals for 2021. 

The fact that I've passed through 2022, 2023, and 2024 actually amazes me and makes me realize that time passes really fast—way faster when you're doing the same things every day. 

My college is about to end and at this point in time I feel that I'm experienced enough to say that the life of an average college student especially in this era of Instagram reels and influencer culture is more of a waste of time. I've realized that teenagers in college these days don't really know anything meaningful. They feel that working hard to earn money is not the right approach to earn money. They're spending hours scrolling through their Instagram feeds mindlessly watching short clips aimlessly. They're ambitious, they no longer have average life goals, and they want to live a luxurious life and make it big because they are living in a delusion that they can make a lot of money by their so-called 'smart ways' of making money.

 In fact, research has concluded that today's youth is the most depressed one. The reason is straightforward they believe in living in their delusional worlds because some social media influencer who is making lakhs daily has told them to stop studying, not do a job, hustle aimlessly, and start investing and trading even if they don't have money and start making reels. And when they find themselves in a do-or-die situation, they again simply choose to die because they don't know how to work hard and actually make it. They're discussing politics even though they don't have the power to make a living on their own. They're making Instagram reels on iPhones bought on their parents hard earned money believing that they will one day get famous and rich. They're learning graphic designing and video editing because some influencers have said that it's their secret to making money. 

The gap between the rich and the poor is constantly increasing. Riches are getting richer, poor are getting poorer. Why? The answer is straight. The rate of consumption is constantly increasing, be it content, services or products. These consumers are burning their money constantly on consuming more resulting in creators and producers making more and more money. Now this doesn't mean that consuming content is making you poor. Not knowing what to consume is actually making you poor and misleading you in the long term. 

Also, the problem is not with content consumption. The problem is actually not building anything meaningful. Once you start building something meaningful, you already start consuming the right content required to build that thing. You're more focused on building and spending less time on consuming. You become more conscious of your time because it becomes the most important asset. There is a reason why it is said that time is money.

In 2019, during my first drop year, I started this small activity of tracking my time and it actually changed my life. It gave me a track of each and every hour spent. Tracking your time means writing down how much time you're spending on something. It is very simple, whenever you start doing something just note down the time in a diary or in your notes, and when you finish doing it note the time again. Do this for each and every thing you're doing even if you're just scrolling through your Instagram and you'll get a track of how much time you're actually wasting on useless things. 

Anyway, this article is just the beginning of another blog series I've been starting for the last two months left in this year. Although I feel I might not be able to post daily the way I used to do way back in 2021, I'll be posting more frequently and will definitely try to motivate with whatever I learned and experienced in these few years of college.

Have a great day!