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If You Feel Like Everything Is Falling Apart, Read This
The bittersweet truth about growing beyond your old self
Failing to nurture your dreams is frightening and painful.
I’ve been a failure more times than I can count.
I didn’t exactly know what I wanted in life. I wanted one thing, and when I got it or was about to get it, the charm would fade away, and I would be ogling the next.
Only a few things stick.
The long-term dream of becoming a doctor lingered on.
After attaining the highest degree and practicing it for over a decade, it also faded away. I lost interest.
For society, I was a loser.
I couldn't fit in what I had built for myself after years of hard work. People around me couldn’t understand or support.
I was a lost cause, standing on the debris of my destruction. Alone. Scared. Scarred.
However, as I delved into my inner self, I realized that the destruction of the old was necessary for me to embrace what I needed at that time.
The multiple annihilation of my old life was crucial for me to go beyond where I felt stuck.
