What are they doing here? The future is at Risk!

Tezender Singh
4 min readMay 7, 2022

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I grew up in a busy large family undergoing several odds in life.

And as I remember now, my journey started with a question about my future when I was a kid.

Hey! What do you wanna pursue in life?

Engineering or Doctor

Engineering
Doctor

and its answer I kept with me till the day my Matriculation result was out! and I was asked by a News Reporter about it.

And I replied Mechanical Engineering instantly!

Hey! this CBSE and CGPA together made me look smarter than I actually was. Still hard-working though.

I surprisingly! qualified for the dream school of my city for HSC since the odds were in my favor.

and you know the gear paddle of dream life and reality came here.

gear paddle

Some untold family pressure and dreams demanded to volunteer in no time.

Since my parents were my well-wishers and responsible family members, they had different thoughts on the path to my dreams which wasn’t penetrating into my mind.

I competed with my dilemma to their expressions in my attempts and future approach. I struggled hard to withstand the unsounded JEE-Advance hosting in a corner of my mind.

In no time reality took away my ambition to secure aggregated “O” grade on my HSC report card with a large magnitude!

and

one more continuation with JEE-Main under-qualification marks of tens and ones was its progression.

I got a bit broke! hard in a row.

broke

And that made all the difference.

Finance, time, self-doubts, distractions, health, and habits all voiced against me. I don’t know whom to catch and blame😜 this time to gain some well-needed pride.

Where self-doubt was slowly trying to dominate among them without any alert!

I pursued simple graduation with high self-esteem and started to shift towards technology in a deeper sense of digitization.

Yes! Yes!

technology and flexibility with screen-eye combination dominated book-eye friendship to a high extent.

screen-eye
book-eye

This college life offered me ladders of freedom and responsibilities simultaneously.

I foolishly tried to go with the flow and focused to excel here too.

Friendship here was like an invisible strange gift to panic upon at last since my academic excellence was facing grown-up self-doubt for the first time.

Positivity wasn’t a winner then!

I faced the mental health issue after fighting a long battle within me. I always accept being alone to fight for myself and this makes me who I am!

During a trip to the hospital premises, I saw teenagers rushing into the psychiatrist’s cabin with a knock every quarter-hour!

Knock
quarter-hour

What clicked me was “What are they doing here😶? The future is at risk!😲”

I even forgot to think and care about my issues whatever they were.

Some inner battles and vigorous learnings

pushed me in front of you today😊!

Life barely offers the opportunities to think and react to such injustice against human health and our future selves.

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Tezender Singh

Student 🚸Mentor for today's struggling 👨‍🦱youths || Performance Marketing Specialist || Public Speaker