This is a story of personal growth which although is personal to me, might be relatable to many of you out there. This journey of personal growth is what I am talking about after looking at it from the window of being a courageous, being independent and being a risk-taker. I believe I have gathered courage from the lack of choice that I had coming from not a very privileged background. This risk-taking attitude came from not having a choice to do otherwise or at better times having but an illusion of choice. I hope in this quick read you find yourself somewhere.
All this courage stimulated both from hurdles and opportunities, rather I consider every hurdle that I came across to be an opportunity in itself. It all began from education, from schooling in English. Imagine being a first-generation English speaker and having to speak and debate in English in front of a crowd of around five hundred young adults whose either first language is English, or they are at least second-generation English speakers. This was an opportunity to grow and the hurdle was the language itself that was going to improve. However, I gathered the courage to do so and I am only happy about that decision because it acted as a stimulant for my further interests in the language and growth of expertise in it.
This being the case at times at times it was a matter of sheer want to be independent or again many a times not much of choice. It was not having the privilege of my parents being home to take care of me when I came back from school when I was only 5 or 6 because both my parents were at work and we couldn’t afford a nanny. It was those afternoons spent alone at home at the age of 5 that don’t make me insanely homesick like my co-years when as a 17-year-old I live miles away from home. These hurdles were about travelling alone to school, that was about 10 kilometers away, by public transport at the age of 6. But that was an opportunity that give me the courage to take my first flight, a travel of 6300 kilometers, all by myself without my parents being there to hold my anxious hands during take-offs and landings.
Hence, all I am trying to say is that treat your obstacles as stimulants of opportunities. I took up this attitude and have given you guys a number of examples and can give you many more of how it simulates growth. So, the next time life throws a hurdle at you throw back a journey of growth at it like I did.
