All of us won't achieve our dreams.
I'm in a race against time.
I have slowly realized what it is…
No, it’s a huge massacre…
You were taught in school, that the more you study, the more you will get rich.
There’s this popular rhyme we all have heard (almost) in our childhoods…
पढ़ोगे लिखोगे बनोगे नवाब …
(Padhoge likhoge banoge Nawab)
Which roughly translates… ‘You are gonna be a king if you simply study’ …
Lies… fake promises… Artificial dreams.
A lot of my friends tell me, “I want to be a doctor, Sayak.”
Only some know and few even realize that they are not even living their own dreams… It’s that their parents or family wanted to have a doctor in their damn bloodline.
What a concept!…
If you don’t have a child, your dynasty is dead.
If you have a child, you make sure that the child grows to be what the dynasty wants him to be…
It doesn’t matter if he has dreams. All that it cares about is to have a good offspring that would simply do the same thing with its own children.
Artificial dreams… huh!
I have been getting quite active on LinkedIn recently…
After wandering for over 1 year… I have tried every get-rich-quick scheme and trick on the internet until 2022 and trust me… that thing is pure bullshit.
It’s pure clickbait because even if you are very successful in selling audiences into viewing your spam ads from warriorplus and other similar websites… it won’t last long.
And finally… I have realized this that if you want a steady income source which is NOT YOUR JOB… You need to have a brand either personal or company…
And provide value to others → to build an audience & fan base → letting them trust you → sell finally at the end of the funnel…
Also, make the thing that you are selling such that your buyers even share it with their friends.
That’s how you go from 6-figures to 7-figures AUTOPILOT.
Analyzed Sahil Bloom :)
And trust me, the best place to build a build… is LINKEDIN.
It takes at least 6 months to create a good and flowing engaging audience.
PS better start as early as you can.
I stumbled upon this post on LinkedIn… Actually, you need to provide qualitative engagement to other posts as well in order to grow on LinkedIn. It’s a win-win…
And there was this woman… writing the title of this post… in a different way…
And perhaps, that struck a chord inside me.
Because whatever I’m doing… All of it that we all are trying to do… has a fair chance that it’s gonna fail.
Failure is a way of life. And you learn more than your failures than your successes…
But failing your dreams…
How can someone ‘fail their dreams’?
Failing… is a very personal word. It’s a very relative word.
You think you are working your ass off and finally reach the 5-figure mark. And yet there is your orthodox family member thinking that you are a failure just because you didn’t get a government job.
We all have our own definitions of success & failures and a lot of more words… I like to call them ‘personal’ words.
And it’s crucial to have a definition for your own self… for what works, for yourself…
Because that way, we are more likely to achieve our goals.
The hard part… you don’t realize it.
You don’t realize that the term ‘failure’ (which means ‘lack of success’) actually means to your heart.
And once you realize it… there are only two outcomes:
1. Winning.
2. Learning.
You don’t ‘fail’ because you are not a failure. You just simply fail to match your high expectations. And it’s fine… there are over 1200000 students who take the first stage of the world’s hardest exam, JEE. And only 200000 are qualified to sit for THE HARDEST EXAM IN THE WORLD, JEE ADVANCE. And here’s the fucked up part.. 17385… that’s the number of seats in IIT (as of 2024).
Are you a failure?
I love the quote from Jeetu bahiya from Kota Factory.
He says (rough translations 👇),
“The army that loses the war are not called losers…
They are called Warriors.”
You tried and it didn’t go our way. Because someone has put more effort than you or because your luck was terrible…
I’m in a race against time as well.
Here’s all that I’m struggling with:
I’m giving off AP exams… Not one… but five.
So what’s the catch? How hard is it?
Yes, finishing up 1st year college courses of 4 subjects while 1st-year grade 11 is hard.I’m preparing for the SAT. But I haven’t yet achieved a score of 1550+. I need a close to perfect to even stand a chance in Princeton.
I don’t have more than 24 hours every single day.
I’m putting a lot of time on LinkedIn. And yet unable to find a single paid client (it’s close to my first month… I started as a Content Writer from scratch in January 2024… ).I need to have a IELTS band of 8.5-9… And here I’m getting a score of Band 6.5 …
I can’t get full marks on my Sample Question Papers for Physics, Chem & Maths in Class 11.
I need to find a good research opportunity soon… Because I couldn’t crack the 1st stage of the Astronomy Olympiad. I need to finish up those courses in Marketing… they have been piled up for a long time. I need to start reading lectures of Feynman…
I’m failing my goals all the days in the first two weeks of January 2024… What am I?
But if I stop working…
I would fall back…
I would fall back another second.
And every second is more than I can take.
I have dreams… And all of them would reduce to dust.
Can I win against time?
The haunting questions persist, and sometimes, I feel powerless to escape.
I need to face them. I need to face it. To meet my own standards of success, I must get free. I must achieve my goal of achieving financial freedom by 25.
Else, I’m bound… Bound even before I get materialistically conscious of the state I would be facing.
I’m drowning. Sometimes I feel like if I let someone inside my head, they would be very confused or they would be simply crumbling inside the pressure.
Our definitions define our life.
And in the end, we are the ones who decide who’s gonna tell our story.
The lion tells the story , if lion wins over the hunter.
The hunter speaks of how bravely he killed the lion…
Who speaks? Who we let to.
And in this personal journey of life… one needs to hold on. Holding on even if the ship falls apart. Because if one has faith in the Higher Power… even if the ship falls apart, someone/ something would surely save him.
And perhaps, No one would ever fulfill all their dreams.
Because someday or the other, memories hit back. And bad memories bring regrets.
And … It’s not about how the memories are… all that truly matters is how much acceptance can we show to our flawed and failed tinkerings of the mind.
And if in the end, our definition of success remains fluid and dynamic, just like The Mahabharata preaches us to be, happiness might never depend on our success.
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You and I have different types of pressures and stress, but whenever I feel like I am crumbling, I recall the face of my future child...what will he/she think of me as a father? When your child asks "How did you achieve so much, father?", What will be your answer?
It should always be " I did it, even though I thought I couldn't , even though people were against me"...It should be the only answer that comes out of your mouth...
If there is no one else looking up at you, your future child always will, and you CANNOT Disappoint him/her. If you are doing it for somebody, do it for your future child...
There are mornings and evening, where I feel like absolute shit, but immediately I think of my future child, " were you always so lazy father? Is this why you couldn't achieve your dreams?"
This is the REAL MOTIVATION...nothing else
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