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to retrace once you get a bit further into the journey of self- discovery depending on where your path takes you.
If you are like me, you probably started thinking seriously about the direction your life would take once you left high school in your final high school year. That’s good. But if not, if you didn’t think about it before leaving high school, if you haven’t thought about it yet even now, no problem.
The journey towards self-discovery is not an easy one, and certainly, it is not clearly defined and has no time spans or deadlines. Everyone has their own pace and their own experiences that guide them, which are vastly different. Let me tell you a little story about myself.
When I was in my final year of high school, I started thinking seriously about my life thereafter, my career path especially. This was in the first term of the final year. At that moment, I settled on architecture as my career of choice. I decided that I wanted to be an architect, to design buildings and structures and leave a visible mark on this world. I had found myself, apparently. This was what I was going to do in campus. Then, towards the end of the second term, I suddenly changed my preferences, because (maybe unknowingly) I had continued thinking about my best option career-wise, about what I actually wanted to do in life, something that would satisfy me. Now I wanted to do computer science. Suddenly the tech world had become so fascinating to me, I couldn’t see myself doing anything else in campus and for the rest of my life. I believed that this second option was actually the ultimate - it was actually a true reflection of what I wanted, what would produce the
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