I wish I knew it at 25

At the age of 20 -25 we have a very different energy, we are trying to prove ourselves at work, become a good child to our parent, become a good friend and somehow trying to figure out our whole life at that point of time. We feel that if we do not achieve it now then probably, we would be left behind and will be looked down as a person who did nothing in life.

The fact is that life has its own path and it never runs in straight line. Nor the career nor the personal life. When I got my first job, I thought that's it. It was the best job I could ask for and it felt like this was it, but then life happened. I changed my field of work. At that time, I thought this is good, but then there came a time when I had to quit all of it. Through my life I kept wearing different hats. Sometimes a professional, sometimes a home maker, certain time just focusing on self-growth. My path was never that one line which I believe it would be at the age of 25. It all went zig-zag. I picked up so many different skills on the way, which I had never imagined at 25.

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Through this period so many people came into my life and so many went away. There has been nothing constant except for my family. At one point where health was of the least priority became the top most priority. I was a hard-core party person in my 20s and 30s and I would think I am going to do this all my life. But now I do not feel like doing it. I lived in a very narrow window, where I was being told to do things in certain way and I would follow that or I believed in certain things which I kept following for some time. The fact was that every time I was forced to let it go. If I did not do it willingly, then it was done in a harsher way.

The learning is, nothing is constant in life, there is no point of getting fixed up on anything, whether it is work or people. Everything is a passing experience and the best we can do is live in the moment and take that experience. We are always work in progress; we are allowed to change our minds. It's ok to be different than what we were 10-20 years back. We are allowed to choose ourselves.

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