“I did not make it to IIT.”
I was talking to a fellow engineer Mr Sanjay Jain about one of the biggest regrets of my life.
Sanjay ji graduated from HBTI Kanpur and later pivoted to senior HR positions in the corporate world.
He asked whether I tried or not.
Oh yes, I did!
I had enrolled for Brilliant Tutorials (correspondence course) and was pretty upbeat till the first few months of Class 11.
I was unable to cope up with the increasing level of difficulty of questions and gave up the pursuit before I wrote my Class 11 exams.
He was all ears as I narrated my story.
मेरा दुखड़ा सुनने के बाद उन्होंने कहा – “Vikas the biggest regret in life is not what you attempted but something which you never gave a try”.
It took me a while to let that thought sink in.
I know of
-many people who’ve wanted to be an author but have never ever started writing
-a few who could have been one of the best professional speakers in Delhi but are confined to a secure job
-some who wanted to be entrepreneurs but never gave it a shot for they wanted to be risk averse
There’s this famous study of the Top 5 regrets of the dying captured in a book by Bronnie Ware.
Do you know the biggest regret of the dying as per this study?
“I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
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