Choose what leaves you with satisfaction and not regret.

Amidst numerous uncertainties, gazillions of speculations and several conjectures, on a normal Tuesday evening,  we got the news that Our board exams have been scrapped. It was the cancellation of board exams for our parents, relatives, teachers but for us, it was an end of our school life.

But apart from the above fact, we are in a phase where we teenagers have  to face certain conundrums that frequently crosses our mind. Which profession should we pursue? Will our family understand what we want from our life? Will they acknowledge our dreams? What if we fail at our first attempt? What if our family doubts our dreams and goals?  All this leads us to stand on the crossroads of our life where we are stuck between listening to our heart and taking a road which eventually gives us a sense of satisfaction for choosing the life we dreamt of or a road which stands out to the expectations of our family and society and eventually leaves us with a sense of regret.

This is the most common dilemma we come across in our life. But what matters at the end is choosing a path that fills us with us with purpose. Purpose to love our work which we chose for ourselves, purpose which fills us with contentment after accomplishing our task and purpose which gets us proud of ourselves when we return back home. 

Needless to say, the journey is not going to be a cakewalk for everyone. The society, our parents, even our friends will doubt our decision of choosing an unconventional path because that does not stand out to their conventional norm of doing a job of 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. There will be the time when all this will cause us to doubt our decisions, our goals and our expectations from our life, often doubting ourselves. 

There will also be the times when we are only left with ourselves, lack of support even from our family will leave you completely helpless. Sense of Hopelessness will take over our vestiges of confidence. But we have to ensure our innerselves , that will be the time when we have to be our own support. Take a stand for ourself. Fight for our dreams even if it requires to walk alone, even if it requires to cross along the path of thorns without any support. 

Once we believe in our dreams, our potential and the life we want to create for ourself, we'll build a path where there will be a no place for gloom and dismissive objectifications. 

Perhaps, standing out for ourselves will cost our peace initially but at the end it will all be worth it. We'll exactly be there where we desired to be.

After all weaving a successful life for ourselves will definitely be demanding our struggles, our determination and ofcourse our persistence.

                                    By- Anshika Awasthi