A change of perspective

Day 229 / 366

I was rewatching episodes of the series “Suits”. I first watched it when I was a freshman in college. I remember seeing the awesome life of these lawyers in the US as they solve complex cases and look cool. And I always thought that I would someday lead a life as cool as that.

Cut to now, a decade later I find myself living a relatively monotonous life. I build websites and apps and I get paid well for doing so. But it’s nothing that gets me excited anymore. It’s certainly not what I had imagined myself doing back in college when I was watching Suits, or House MD, or Sherlock.

Over the past few years, I stopped consuming TV series or movies that often, telling myself that I was too busy to waste time on stuff like that. But now that I am re-watching Suits, I get the same sort of excitement and thrill that I used to get back in college. And I am motivated to do something cool with my life again. It makes me want to work on myself, my company and my life. The last thing I want my life to be is boring.

I think we all have those songs, books, or movies that have shaped the way we look at the world. And it’s important for us to keep going back to them, whenever we feel lost, or whenever we need to find that spark again.