What I found when I looked within
- realshepower
- Sep 18, 2019
- 3 min read
By Diksha Sharma
I truly believe that if you want to stand out in your lives, contemplating if the very idea resonates with you is the most important thing. I was always a merit holder in high school, good grades meant everything to me and I loved being ahead of everyone else in the game. But as the senior years approached, it hit me that just grades won’t help me build a meaningful life.
One mindset that I have since childhood, is to always be acknowledged by being and doing different. If my friends followed a trend, I didn’t, just to prove them and to myself that it is not necessary for everyone to do the same thing. Obviously, they have no idea that I had these thoughts back then and what I also didn’t know for sure then was, that this attitude is going to affect all my choices in life.
I can say that with my type of education and working choices because I am not doing the common things or things that many people know of. But one of the best decisions of my life, which my family supported to their fullest, was to study in abroad. I say this because I would not have been the person I am today if I did not take this risk of getting out of my comfort zone. It wasn’t easy, it is never easy to suddenly leave your family and your childhood love for life to be on your own. Especially coming from a place where we are raised in all the comforts and parents usually take full responsibility of children till they marry them off from their lifelong savings. Instead of financial independence, we are first taught how to be good human beings, as money and materialism was never given the power to dominate in our culture. But with the advent of globalisation, our cultural essence is gradually fading away.
Living alone in abroad, away from my loved ones has taught me so much that I think I can write a book about it, but for now this narrative is enough. Again, I am very content with my choice of field which I chose to study here, but I do not want to end up working in offices for someone who doesn’t reflect what I am looking for. This is not about not doing a job just for the sake of doing different but much more than that.
I have never felt so strongly where I belong, as I do now. Most youngsters who can choose, want to settle abroad after studying and live their whole lives adjusting to an unknown culture and making good money. But they know very well in their hearts where they actually belong and thus always keep wanting to go back.
Since I do have a choice, I don’t want to live with this feeling of missing out all my life just so I can be financially secure and give others the illusion that all is figured out in other places. I can very well establish myself where I belong, with my loved ones, for my own country, for people who have a deeper meaning related with their work, because manifesting has nothing to do with where you are placed but what you have it in you to make it happen.
