Don't hide your magic.

By Prakhar Rastogi

March 26, 2023

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I've always been a social person as far as i can remember from my childhood. Even though i was a very nerd kid and so i had some nerd friends back then. I always wanted to be an astronaut, to touch the moon is still in my bucket list 😇. So i had friends who was also interested in the astronomy and the physics. We were 4 people strong including me. So those days i used to go home by school bus as i came from very far away. And the 3 of my friends were locals so, when the school gets finished, i had to go back to the bus and these 3 people used to gather around together and discuss a lot about new scientific discoveries. I missed this opportunity and hence used to feel little sad over this. But the main thing to note here is that, when you gets surrounded by the like minded people, who has the same interest on the subjects which you have, it will motivate you to keep going. I like spending time in library. I love new books and especially English novels and the science books mostly related with astronomy. I got this habit from my very 1st school. I mean 1st in the context of as far as i can remember. We used to gather around in the library and we try to read almost all the books related with cosmology and space travels. This curiosity to know most of the scientific discoveries grew so much that i started to buy books from the "book fair" which used to be organize in my city. I had bought so many books related with astronomy and then we would share our books together.

But after my primary school. I continued the education in my high school. Here comes the twist, no matter how much i wanted to be an astronaut and loved science. I was weak in maths. And this fear of me grew so much during my final board exam of maths while i was in standard 10th, so I 1st decided to take a gap year to work on my maths and science (chemistry, and some physics). I was so much confused on what to to do, and kept of asking with as many people as i knew. So i got this advice of going for commerce stream as it did not contain much of maths. And really how stupid was i , that i didn't even consulted this with my friends and without proper research, i decided to go for it. Now at this time, while typing this, i feel like that my destiny has once again taken me towards science & technology. But this time, the interest is for the programming and coding. And I’m glad that this exists. It is after 2-3 years later, when i stopped wandering around and confused of what to do with my life, i now knew exactly what i truly enjoy doing in my life. Honestly, you won't believe this but i was so so much confused of what to pursue in my under graduation. I was looking for all the options. sometimes, i liked almost every branch, like BCOM, BBA and i don't remember what else. But this feeling is really precious and i am grateful that now i know my path. I wish if i could shared this with my mom so she was not felt so worried for me.

But this didn't came as a good surprise in my life. Now, that i am still pursuing BCOM(H) as my mom told me to do so, i kept her word... But now i really don't have any friend who shares the same love of programming as i do. All my friends whom i know, basically few close friends, are all commerce guys, and they don't seem like taking any interest in coding. So, this sometimes really sucks... like i really need to share my little achievements with my friends. But one good thing is that now, i have my little brother, pursuing engineering and he is also studying the same thing. so this is good, and now i am friends with few of my college seniors who are pursuing BCA, so i get to know what they are studying, so i try to keep up with them. Having good friends to support you is very important in life. Being introvert all the time really annoys sometimes. So try to share something of yourself. Let them know how hell of a wonderful person you are. So i would like to end this here, with this quote i read on Instagram, "Do the universe a Favor, don't hide your magic ✨" !