Making a Living Writing — How I Designed This Life (Part 1 of 5)
<p>This photo is from October 2020, when Mom and I went for a holiday and I told her ‘I want to quit the corporate world in 6 months’. Of course, she laughed it off thinking it’s just a phase.</p>
<p>Imagine you’re in your mid-twenties, and nothing makes sense to you at work. Why are you pulled into all these meetings? What is this race that you don’t know how to win?</p>
<p>It feels strange.</p>
<p>Like a battle between who you are and what is expected from you.</p>
<p>E.g. “I don’t want to be b!tchy for a few brownie points or suck up to a leader. But I probably should?”</p>
<p>It doesn’t feel right if it’s not a part of you, isn’t it?</p>
<p>This is what I felt 3 years ago. And the feeling stayed for way too long.</p>
<p>It kept lingering over my head and weighed me down.</p>
<p>Naturally, I thought I was a lazy millennial who didn’t want to work hard.</p>
<p>Until I realised — Who makes these rules? Who taught us there’s only one way to live and one path to success?</p>
<p>We push people to follow a path, yet applaud the musician or entrepreneur who made it big and made everyone proud. But we won’t tell our kids to follow it, because it’s not ‘certain’.</p>
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