Scrolling on social media changed my life.
1 year ago I was living the most common graduate life. I had just completed my engineering degree and was walking to a good 5 figure day job. I would come home, eat dinner, binge-watch Netflix, and go to sleep.
Isn’t that what life should’ve been about? I thought I owed it to myself. For studying so hard, I deserve all the rest I was getting. But it was simply mediocrity in disguise.
While scrolling Instagram one day I read a quote:
You can either sacrifice your comfort or sacrifice your dream.
That quote hit harder as it was roughly 1:42 AM, with the entire street asleep. It made me think about who I actually was before I started my job.
- I was a college-level badminton player who loved to exercise.
- I was an entrepreneur who had just bootstrapped a startup at the age of 20
- I was a published author by 21
And, I forgot it all in the name of comfort when I started my 9–5. It was time to get back up and do the thing I was best at — creating.