2023 to Feb ‘24 - I started building my first company with my best friend for life (I’ve known him for the last 10 years now). He had gone to Bangalore and started it there, asked me to come join in and build it together. It was a lot of new growth, a lot of chaos, and fun as well. Towards the end, frankly everything fell apart. Jan 2024 was one of the most personally challenging months I’ve ever lived. The company broke apart. Our friendships also weren’t that strong that time, and I came back home for a bit to finish my degree.
I never thought I’d know this, but after all this, the one thing I knew was what I didn’t want to do. Who I was not, and what was non negotiable to me.
That led me to go stronger and full force into the life I really wanted to live.
In May 2024 I came back to Bangalore and had the best time of my life. I like to say I discovered ‘happiness’, I explored a ton, met a ton of strangers now turned friends. Went into cafes and talked to random people. It was all so much fun. So much so, that I decided to leave my accommodations and start travelling while still working remotely.
In 2024 after that, I’m so happy to have spent a lot of quality time with friends - people I love and cherish so much, multiple times through the year - whom I’d normally meet maybe once in 2 years.
One assurance that all this built in me and one big thing that it changed in me is, that, now I know that I can be happy wherever I go no matter what, that it is within me. What this changed in me is that I’m not that worried about things anymore, I’m not constantly ‘at threat’ and I laugh more often, I just am living a better life. It’s not perfect, neither am I, but it comes back to being good and how I want it, much much more often and quicker.
If I hadn’t built the company, if I hadn’t been challenged by it so much - what I really want wouldn’t have been such a strong voice in my head. The contrast and challenge of what I didn’t want and didn’t accept, made the choices towards the kind of life I wanna live much more pronounced, prominent and even crazier!