Accept, Adapt and move on.

I have developed a new passion in the past two years for the subject of Finance. This started back in June 2020 and it has now become an integral part of my life. I was fortunate that I discovered this when I was in 10^th because then it became a no-brainer for me to decide what I wanted to study as my undergraduate course. Since then, I have been working towards getting admission to my desired institute. Apart from the subject learnings, my experience doing all the different stuff required for getting an admission has been very insightful and enlightening for me. I am going to share 1 big realization I have had in this process which has completely changed my way of looking at things.

A major part of my application that comes without saying is my high school grades and as I am aiming for a top university, my grades also need to be of that quality. I have to score extraordinary grades for them to consider my application in the first place. My extracurriculars, co-curricular only have value if I score and thus it is imperative that I focus on my studies. But the challenge I have in front of me is that I absolutely despise studying things that don’t make sense to me. I hate to study stuff that has no application. I know that almost 80% of what I am studying right now is going to be of zero use in my real life and thus wasting time on me makes me furious. I used to be rebellious about this since my school.

I always used to question each and every topic that I was being taught. Most of the topics didn’t use to make sense to me so I wasn’t wholeheartedly studying them. This rather than doing any positive used to hamper my performance. To be honest, my grades really didn’t matter as much till I was in 10^th. And now that I am aiming for a college, they are of paramount importance. I have to make sure that I get great grades irrespective of whether I like it or whether it is useful. Accepting this fact has led me to an important realization that is:

“Life is a package”

If I want the good I need to go through the bad. I need to do a

lot of stuff that I don’t like in order to eventually do what I like. Every process is a combination of both of these. Anything and everything which I have done or probably will do in the future is going to have this. I can’t pick and choose only the stuff that I like and discard what I don’t. After understanding this, what I have tried doing is to look at the things I don’t like as a part of the process rather than a separate activity.

I have started to accept the fact that there are going to be some things that I hate doing but still have to for what I want to achieve. The moment I have internalized this fact, I have started studying more rather than questioning why am I doing this. What I have realized is that rather than questioning the same thing every time, accepting the fact and committing to the process yields much better results.  This realization has made a huge difference in my perspective of looking at things. This has made me more able at doing things I don’t like, thus making me strong to undertake harder processes.