What if You Don't Remember Why You Started?

"Remember why you started this."

This is one of the many pieces of advice thrown at you when you are feeling like giving up or stuck or hit a roadblock.

But what if you don't remember why you started?

I don't remember what excited me in the first place when I decided to take up digital marketing. I don't remember anything at all. I don't even come from a marketing background.

Was it the hype around digital marketing? Was it the money?

I have to be honest here. I think I fell into the trap of easy do stuff about this field which many people, gurus and trainers talk about.

Like how easy it is to do SEO, run Facebook Ads, Content Writing and how easy it is to earn lakhs of income in a short span of time.

My dumbass brain at that point of time got brainwashed easily with all this shit.

I too was not in a good place at that time. I still don't. I was one of those guys who went clueless AF after graduating from college. I wanted to do something that would secure me a job ASAP. One thing led to another. A lot of stuff happened over this time period.

As I got to know more and more about digital marketing, social media, blogging, ad words and much more, I started developing a genuine interest in all of these things.

It was like a whole new world which I was not at all aware of.

Something unseen before and never heard about. I became aware of the opportunities I never knew I had.

But now I'm very much keen on making a career in the digital space. I don't have any clear idea about that, to be honest.

It's like these little tinglings(gut feeling if I can say that) I have that says, "This is it. This is what you should be doing. This very particular thing is gonna change you as a whole new person, in a better way."

I'm trying out a lot of stuff and am willing to try out more and excel at it.

In a way, you can say that I am increasing my chances of getting lucky at taking this shot by doing and learning whatever I can.

I don't know where will this path take me to. All I know is I'll be a much better person who would have overcome all of his fears and hurdles, I believe, breaking out of this bubble around me.

The bubble has been very protective and limiting at the same time.

This is an excerpt from my journal written on 28 January 2021.

Now you tell me, "Do you remember why you got started with whatever you are doing currently?"

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