If I were to write a short letter to my younger self, it would be like this.
I remember my first serious summer job that turned out into a full scale career in tech and communications sector. I started two decades ago and being a part of emerging world was something that ignited my passion for work, amazing projects and broadened my world view.
I’ve got one text today. It was from her. Nice text, wishes for the holidays and 2018. But the point was it was from her. The one who called me Sensei.
I texted back.
There’s a movie line a saw recently that got me thinking. So simple, yet so elusive, so hard to answer.
“Everyone here is searching for something. What are you looking for?”
Having a job that you love is great. Doing good even better. Be with the people you learn from, amazing.
But all that does not fulfill you if you don’t play. If you don’t take time for yourself, if you don’t stop and awe at life, if you don’t dream.
Sometimes I have a feeling my whole life is out of the comfort zone. Every move, project, or a job, has been something new, a challenge, an experience.
And sometimes I think to myself: I don’t need “out of the comfort zone” anymore. I…
One evening I was looking through the windows at the empty street outside the house and I remembered first months in the city I moved in years ago.
There are days when every goddamn piece of me wants to tear apart this illusion of life and just run away, screaming with every step until I reach that magic place where sun touches the ocean on the horizon.
Think what you’re curious about. Think about everything you ever tried. Think about you ex-es. Think about your travels. All those parties. That times when you felt happy, undefeatable and forever young.
Doing things with passion is great. But sometimes, it’s just plain work, nothing exciting, something that just has to be done. Passion is more like an afterburner, the glorious moment after finishing the job.