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| TEST THE WATERS |
In life, we tend to get too comfortable, too easily. We meet the same people every day, go through the same routine and somehow seem to be content with just this.
However one must keep evolving. We should constantly explore ourselves, think of what we can improve and work upon it. The day that one stops trying to better themselves, and feels that no change is required, is the day one is truly wasting all the potential of mankind within them.
In my opinion, one should constantly test the waters. We should set ourselves up for new tasks, try to explore new things, and most importantly step out of our comfort zones. I myself recently came to this realization and I took a leap outside of my cozy bubble to take on a new adventure.
I am essentially someone who takes time to adjust to people. I’m unable to be myself around the people whom I’ve recently met, maybe it’s the fear of social acceptance, don’t know, quite haven’t pinned that one yet. However, the task I put myself to was that I lived with absolute strangers for three days.
We all signed up for the same organization and after meeting them just once, I decided to take on this adventure. Indeed I was extremely nervous and anxious, but now it’s surely one of the most memorable experiences of my life. It has increased my confidence level, improved my way of handling situations and has been a huge help to my social anxiety. It also made me learn to be adaptive, as from having a separate bedroom, I shared a room with five other people. The friends I made on this experience, the people I met, things I learnt and experiences I had, are all too immense to be put in words.
One major thing that this experience taught me was to care about others, to be selfless and to empower others while empowering your own self. A funny thing that I learnt was that first impressions are mostly incorrect and that if you make the effort to get to know a person the other one will too.
Thus I would like to say, do anything but don’t make your life stagnant, always keep introspecting, testing yourself, improving and most importantly never stop trying!
Test the waters, only then can you one day dive in the ocean!
-Neeti Oberoi
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