Have you faced this?

In the days of your schooling, Having no clue what's gonna happen next, Unable to find out what you are good at, Parents pushing their thoughts in and making you do that, "Have you faced this?"

In most of the cases you must have at least faced one of them above, some might also be facing that still. Have you ever thought, why is it like this? (or) tried something to come out of this?

Some people try to acknowledge this in some way, some would want to but are stuck somewhere not knowing what to do.

Let me tell you a story, How I came around these issues/situations (or) whatever you like to call it.

I generally used to explore a lot of things, I used to stay curious and would love to try a lot of things. Personally, I got access to a computer when I was studying my 5th standard and that was only because my family was doing business and initially they had the office in our living room.

As a kid, I used to play games, and watch youtube, and literally, this is what I was doing. One fine day, I got to hear something called Gmail but I don't know what it was, I knew nothing about mail at that time. I just knew Chrome is a place where I can enter anything and get it. Somehow I managed to create an account on it, and finally that was my first milestone.

Then, came Facebook. My parents used to surf Facebook, like, and comment on posts. My urge to use facebook got increased. So what's next? Create a Facebook account, yeah I created one with my fake date of birth. Ah done, this is what I was feeling but soon after I realized that I didn't like the name that I had on Facebook and I didn't know that we can edit it and all. Give a guess what I would have done.

I literally created about 15-20 email id's and Facebook accounts till I got satisfied 😂

Sounds funny right, but it was also a learning process. What's something that I understood at that time?

Computers are so dumb, they will tell you everything that you need to do to get something. Lesson learnt.

Apdiyae, if you take it to my 8 (or) 9th std, where a few Tamil youtube went on trend and every school student used to watch it. Especially, Jumpcuts and Eruma Saani, I used to watch all the videos and really loved them at those times.

Now, guess what would I have done next!!!

Probably you would have guessed it right, Yeah, I started my youtube channel, I wrote the script, directed, edited, and posted. I was not a good YouTuber at that time, still and I admit it, but what did I learn? I learned how to use adobe photoshop and adobe premiere pro. I got to believe in self-learning and I got the validation.

Fast forward to the days before picking the course and college, Yes, I had the issue with my parents giving in their inputs and not having enough faith in what I am interested in. But, I showed the validation of the process to make them believe.

Out of context, "In between, I skipped a lot of stories which will be documented in another blog sometime later."

Right now, I'm into cyber security and that journey was started in my 11th std. Meanwhile, In the span of 11th and 12th std, I showed my interest in computers, programming, and cyber security and made them know that I was consistent on that and showed the validation that it was a worthy field to pursue through winning some competitions and getting acknowledgments which convinced them and made them okay with the course that I wanted to select.

This was my story regarding those question that was mentioned above and this was my way, and now you can blend something out of it. I believe that you got some ideas on handling those situations.

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