Hi Medium.

Saadhya Singampalli
2 min readDec 5, 2015
A photograph taken by me almost three years ago in downtown Bakersfield, CA.

This my first post on Medium. I’ve been reading stories on Medium for months now. I usually read one or two articles a day during lunch, sometimes about photography, sometimes careers, sometimes tech, and often times about life. However, I’ve been hesitant to post my own thoughts for a while out of intimidation by everyone else’s incredibly eloquent insights on beautifully diverse topics that perfectly cater to my sometimes scatterbrained self. Today is the last day of classes and I’m finally accomplishing this small goal in light of a larger message that I’ve learnt these past 4 months.

Most of us have been going through these “mid-college” crises in doubt and uncertainty of where exactly we will be after our glorious college days— including me. These are circles of queries that provoke us to think about and question almost every personal, academic, and professional decision we’ve made. It’s not only “Am I choosing the right career path?” but it’s also a little bit of “will I be good at what I want to do” and lot of “how badly do I really want to do this”. And this isn’t merely just during our downtime or before we sleep at night — it’s throughout our entire day, during classes, during conversations with friends. For a period of a couple months, this cyclic bundle of stress had consumed me as I explored the different directions I could go after college — something fairly tough when you enter college with a specific plan but deviate from it because of other interests. But you know, that’s perfectly okay because that’s the whole entire purpose of going to college. So that was where I was, until I learned to embrace the uncertainty with a small piece of hearty advice I was hearing my entire life, but only started listening to this semester.

Be fearless.

This was the motto in one of my entrepreneurship classes from this semester. I think this mantra is something I wish I followed the day I entered college. Do not let the fear of losing time in college hold you back from leaping into your true calling. Do not let the fear of disliking your current career direction and the stigma of being a confused college student stop you from seeking a better, alternative end game. There is a certain power in fearlessness which immediately self manifests your potential to make it happen, making conceived unlikeliness suddenly a lot more familiar. So next time you find yourself repeatedly jumping and restraining from change, be fearless and just do it.

Saadhya

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