The Beginning
I started working when I was eighteen. Not because I wanted to, but because I had to. Life doesn't wait for permission; it pulls you straight into its rhythm, and before you know it, you're running faster every year, trying to catch something you can't even see.
Back then, I didn't know what I wanted. I only knew that survival came first. Work hard, earn money, repeat. Every morning looked the same — alarms, routines, expectations. And somewhere inside that rhythm, the real me started fading away.
I saw people living like machines — chasing promotions, likes, cars, validation. They called it success, but it never looked alive to me. Everyone seemed trapped in invisible chains: doing what they're told, buying what they're shown, thinking what they're fed.
"But even then, something deep in my chest kept whispering — there's more."
That whisper followed me through every job, every late shift, every night I came home exhausted but unable to sleep. It wasn't anger — it was sadness. Sadness for how disconnected we'd all become. People were forgetting how to feel. Forgetting how to love, how to breathe, how to see beauty in simple things.
And that's when I began to change. I didn't want to live like a robot anymore. I wanted to live awake.