Kafi Kfishna
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

I stumbled on this post without any prior planning. But I feel like respond nonetheless. Sometimes Universe forces us to take a detour from our “personal-dream” path, so that we can learn something we are meant to learn. You are more than what you know/think to be you, and that “more” takes over when necessary. There are 7.44 Billion people in this world. 99.99% don’t know or care about your career or how smart you are. But in your day to day, so called mundane job, I am sure you have helped a lot of people, touched many lives, human or otherwise — and they were/are glad to have your around. Please don’t overlook those rewards. Accept it with gratitude. The frustration, sense of failure that creep inside is the result of ego, the idea of self that we borrowed from others — family members, peers, etc. I am not saying that you don’t have any health condition. But the inner conflict between your “dream-self” and your “real-present-self” is also a major contributing factor I suspect. None of us are completely free. I think you will be a great engineer when the time is right. What you are experiencing now is a necessary detour. Be gentle with yourself, and transition into engineering not to impress anyone, rather to enhance humanity in general. I wish you only the best and may the universe guide you. Even MIT is part of the Universe, so Universe certainly is not dumb.:-):-)

    Kafi Kfishna

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