My 25th Birthday
Today I want to say something…to the people who are closest to me in this 8 billion people world.
To the people who understand me for who I am…
To the people who let me be me without even letting me know…
To the people who care about me
Sometimes I might have made you wonder how genius I am and sometimes how reckless. And between these two lines I live by.
We live in a world with two wars going wild and two cold wars which can get heated anytime it wants.
I have found myself so attached to these worldwide events that I forgot to live by the day. I might have not been able to say this a week before but today I have gathered myself to find the courage to share.
Before I really start to share let’s get a comprehensive look at the foundation on which my story lies.
1. Psychological studies say the childhood experiences you have had both in conscious and unconscious mind is what shapes you for the life.
2. Steve Jobs said, when you find your moment of enlightenment in your life start connecting the dots from the past.
These are two things I focused upon while I laid down a path for myself. (Which annoyingly teaches me every day how many hurdles you have to cross in order to execute it.)
Abacus, Painting, Music and Sports ground this is where I spent most of the time of my childhood indulged in. As I grew up Reading literature and Writing become something where I found my peace spot.
I blamed myself for believing in the fact that I couldn’t clear JEE despite having some prodigal mind.
It took me a while to understand and comprehend that an exam failure doesn’t define the strength of your dedication. (I feel so much better as I say this, I am going to say it again)
An exam failure doesn’t define the strength of my dedication.
I always stayed by the plan of doing engineering right, getting college placements and finding my way to 12lpa package as I turn 25 and then look for entrepreneurial endeavors. But as they say, you cannot control life what is to happen will happen.
Before covid me and Vamsi used to discuss social media startup ideas, brainstorming features and daydreaming about how we can change the way people live by giving a tweak just like people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg gave.
Vamsi was a Steve Wozniak Fan while I was a Steve Jobs fan, as he is a Messi fan and I being Cristiano.
Vamsi and I had complementary skills we both wanted to be the next Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. But again, life happens as it happens.
Then Covid happened and finally when Crypto Street happened everything changed. I flanked away from the plan of doing engineering right, getting college placements and then finding the entrepreneurial endeavor as it happened right then right there.
Hence yes, I am an accidental entrepreneur.
I researched down and understood the industry, the technology and tried to correlate it with how the future might look with this new emerging industry. I started to study more on why this Digital Revolution is known as Industrial Revolution 4 and what are Industrial Revolution and how have they affected the way people live. I am being a reader of harry potter, dan brown in my childhood imagination was fueled within me since then.
And suddenly everything started to showcase as a blunder of events and rash decisions. I was indulging myself into something I was even aware of.
But every time I started to think about letting everything go, quit worrying how difficult and challenging it is to do what I am dreaming of doing. All the insecurities kicks into me and suddenly there is one thing I lock upon on what I believe how this technology and my entrepreneurial endeavor can really help in the field of solving the Income Inequality Problem, I see 71% of self-employed people in India in my father and the challenges that he had. With this thought I always melted the feeling of quitting and kept trying to get one step closer.
At the end of 2023 I somehow managed to really articulate all the thought process I had in the past three years and shape my psychology into a plan moving forward for the next 10-12 years.
Same day 2021 on my 22nd birthday I made a decision to surrender myself towards this entrepreneurial journey, today 2024 on my 25th birthday I can say that the experience I have had in the past 3 years, all the highs and lows, all the good trades and bad trades, all the good and bad memories, some extremely stressful events and some so joyful.
I have collectively put in 8 Lakhs in the past 3 years trying to get myself off the hook and yet I am broke on my 25th birthday.
25th birthday feels like a whole number, a rounded off figure. It is filled with different kinds of responsibilities and weight of them. It feels like it’s not just you and your dream which are at stake now it’s your family who for whom who will need to be responsible for.
And there’s one thing I cannot run away from is the fact that how much I love all my people closest to my heart and I would turn to the world ends to bring cheers to their faces.
Tomorrow, you shouldn’t be the same Rahul anymore, tomorrow is a new day, things will start to get in place sooner.
I make a promise to myself that I will be a changed man, my actions will be different from what they were be till today.
3 years of pre-Entrepreneurship requisite, now change your attitude and start dealing with problems like a grown man would.
To the people who understand me for who I am…
To the people who let me be me without even letting me know…
To the people who care about me
Sometimes I might have made you wonder how genius I am and sometimes how reckless. And between these two lines I live by.
We live in a world with two wars going wild and two cold wars which can get heated anytime it wants.
I have found myself so attached to these worldwide events that I forgot to live by the day. I might have not been able to say this a week before but today I have gathered myself to find the courage to share.
Before I really start to share let’s get a comprehensive look at the foundation on which my story lies.
1. Psychological studies say the childhood experiences you have had both in conscious and unconscious mind is what shapes you for the life.
2. Steve Jobs said, when you find your moment of enlightenment in your life start connecting the dots from the past.
These are two things I focused upon while I laid down a path for myself. (Which annoyingly teaches me every day how many hurdles you have to cross in order to execute it.)
Abacus, Painting, Music and Sports ground this is where I spent most of the time of my childhood indulged in. As I grew up Reading literature and Writing become something where I found my peace spot.
I blamed myself for believing in the fact that I couldn’t clear JEE despite having some prodigal mind.
It took me a while to understand and comprehend that an exam failure doesn’t define the strength of your dedication. (I feel so much better as I say this, I am going to say it again)
An exam failure doesn’t define the strength of my dedication.
I always stayed by the plan of doing engineering right, getting college placements and finding my way to 12lpa package as I turn 25 and then look for entrepreneurial endeavors. But as they say, you cannot control life what is to happen will happen.
Before covid me and Vamsi used to discuss social media startup ideas, brainstorming features and daydreaming about how we can change the way people live by giving a tweak just like people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg gave.
Vamsi was a Steve Wozniak Fan while I was a Steve Jobs fan, as he is a Messi fan and I being Cristiano.
Vamsi and I had complementary skills we both wanted to be the next Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. But again, life happens as it happens.
Then Covid happened and finally when Crypto Street happened everything changed. I flanked away from the plan of doing engineering right, getting college placements and then finding the entrepreneurial endeavor as it happened right then right there.
Hence yes, I am an accidental entrepreneur.
I researched down and understood the industry, the technology and tried to correlate it with how the future might look with this new emerging industry. I started to study more on why this Digital Revolution is known as Industrial Revolution 4 and what are Industrial Revolution and how have they affected the way people live. I am being a reader of harry potter, dan brown in my childhood imagination was fueled within me since then.
And suddenly everything started to showcase as a blunder of events and rash decisions. I was indulging myself into something I was even aware of.
But every time I started to think about letting everything go, quit worrying how difficult and challenging it is to do what I am dreaming of doing. All the insecurities kicks into me and suddenly there is one thing I lock upon on what I believe how this technology and my entrepreneurial endeavor can really help in the field of solving the Income Inequality Problem, I see 71% of self-employed people in India in my father and the challenges that he had. With this thought I always melted the feeling of quitting and kept trying to get one step closer.
At the end of 2023 I somehow managed to really articulate all the thought process I had in the past three years and shape my psychology into a plan moving forward for the next 10-12 years.
Same day 2021 on my 22nd birthday I made a decision to surrender myself towards this entrepreneurial journey, today 2024 on my 25th birthday I can say that the experience I have had in the past 3 years, all the highs and lows, all the good trades and bad trades, all the good and bad memories, some extremely stressful events and some so joyful.
I have collectively put in 8 Lakhs in the past 3 years trying to get myself off the hook and yet I am broke on my 25th birthday.
25th birthday feels like a whole number, a rounded off figure. It is filled with different kinds of responsibilities and weight of them. It feels like it’s not just you and your dream which are at stake now it’s your family who for whom who will need to be responsible for.
And there’s one thing I cannot run away from is the fact that how much I love all my people closest to my heart and I would turn to the world ends to bring cheers to their faces.
Tomorrow, you shouldn’t be the same Rahul anymore, tomorrow is a new day, things will start to get in place sooner.
I make a promise to myself that I will be a changed man, my actions will be different from what they were be till today.
3 years of pre-Entrepreneurship requisite, now change your attitude and start dealing with problems like a grown man would.
Happy 25th Rahul Rajesh Barai. You will be a great Founder.
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