Describe one positive change you have made in your life.
The thing I noticed about childhood much later on in adult life is that among all the childishness as there should be at that age, there was also a lot which was going right. In our way up to explore life more, we lose sight of things until much later when we have to make an effort to do the same.
My life was in a mess and slowly it was becoming something which was clearly getting out of hand. There was absolutely no work-life balance with my work occupying the majority of my life with little or no time for anything else and the thing about life it, its needs time to be lived and there are just as important things as work that we need to devote time to.
I can say from experience that the mental and physical condition you eventually end up in with absolutely no recreation or exercise is severe, one day you realise your mind is too tired and the body cannot even take on simple everyday tasks. Oh yes, the thing our teachers told us about eating too much of those instant food like noodles was always true, and you realise that when you live far from the family and think ‘who needs to waste time cooking, I should perhaps take more freelance work, things that actually earn money’, and in two years later you come out looking like a person who looks at least ten-fifteen years older than your present age with digestion problems and stamina which is not even a good joke.
I left all that, I am back to home, home-made food, a fitness routine and a much-much better work-life balance and more importantly I feel my mind and body energised to do more things in life, I have learned more skills than I had before. I won’t lie, yes working day and night brings in a lot of money and if you are okay to be in that life despite the heavy costs which are in no manner an exaggeration, then it’s your choice, who am I to convince an adult otherwise, but I am surely happy to be away from that life.
Written by Anuran Chatterji
Early Morning Memories 