Am I too Late?

 

Places to visit before you are 20, goals to achieve before you are 25, Assets to build before 30, how to retire in your 30s….. Do these taglines look familiar? Well, they do to me. All these pages and channels that are telling us to achieve something with attached times lines, 20s, 30s, and 40s. So many times I am visiting those pages or channels to find motivation and it actually ends up demotivating me, and I am like Oh No, I am too late for this. And I feel that slight regret of “Oh I wish I had started then” but yes I bounce back very soon. But this is a current phase in my life when I am comfortable with a lot of things and most of all I am comfortable “Being Me at this point in life”, I love it where I am today. Hold on, hold on it’s not about preaching where I blabber you should do this you should do that blah blah blah.

I remember I was watching this video where the person was talking about investments and tips to invest and all, everything was going great and then he says, if you continue investing like this by 25 you can do this, by 30 you can do that and maybe by 35 you can retire and travel the world and be your own boss and this and that. And I was like wait a minute! So is he giving tips to 16-18 year olds or what?? So that means I don’t fit this requirement? Oh Damn I am late. Now what is the point of thinking to invest if I will not get the benefit of the power of ‘compounding’? I won’t be able to retire at 30 as I am already 35 or 40 or 50 years old!!! My chances of becoming a billionaire are long gone, poof! Like Really?? What is going on?? Oh wait let me invest in stocks/penny stocks/ crypto, it can be my shortcut, I will not do my research, my homework and will blindly put my hard earned money in things I don’t understand enough or based on tips and tricks of influencers. I tell myself, it’s okay you don’t have Bitcoins, it’s Okay, you don’t have NFTs its okay, you don’t have stocks of this company that company, it’s okay… It’s okay, If I have it good enough, If I don’t then also fine.. What is this race to retire before 30 or 35 or 40? Some of us don’t want to retire till 100 years.

I remember graphic designing was very popular, everyone was learning it and friends were saying we all should learn it, I thought okay let me think about it, then I looked at my line of study, my line of future career goal and it did not fit in, and then I started learning it, I had no incentive to learn it, I did not know how or where to use it and gradually I stopped practicing it. And frankly, it did not become a hindrance in my life, personal or professional. Now, I have again started to learn tit bits as I want to use it in my social media journey, I plan to start to post stuff on Instagram or YouTube and feel that graphic designing will make things maybe better or convenient and so I learn and practice it, I am not in my teens or twenties and I am learning graphic designing NOW and isn’t it okay, I am alive, happy, thriving in my professional life and definitely NOT LATE to learn a new skill. And have enough money to eat and live happily.

But there is one good thing that I have observed that there are no timelines on personal goals on social media, like get married by 25, have baby 1 by 28, baby 2 by 30 and so on and so forth. Or maybe I am not consuming that content so it does not come in my recommendation. But the timelines are so scary, right?

But yes these people will probably not talk about Warren Buffet, Henry Ford, Harry Bernstein, Julia Child, Marie Curie (36 was toooo damn late based on the timeline of that era), and many many more such successful people who started late in life.

I don’t understand about this rush? Why? You should be happy with what you are, live in the moment and then Bam, Run dude run you are already behind so many kindergarten children who have invested and will retire before they are teenagers!!! Wow!! What exactly is happening in this ‘flex’ and ‘hustle’ world!!!!