If you happen to read this and consider reading it until the end, I can promise you'll leave with something. I intend this to sound like something you’d take for granted—and that’s okay.
Despite spending hours doom-scrolling on your phone without a purpose, reading something for less than five minutes and not having a takeaway should definitely infuriate you—I understand.
Although I’m 21, I feel like I’ve only lived five years of my life because, five years ago, I discovered what it means to not live on autopilot. Yet, the number of times I feel I’ve truly changed is questionable.
My own takeaway—one that will make your time worthwhile—is this: be as useful as you can to people. This will make you happy, rich, sustainable, and productive. Most importantly, it will give you a feeling almost all of humankind craves—the feeling of being wanted.
I’ll leave it to you to decide how useful you want to be. But in this day and age, people hesitate to involve themselves in others’ business—and that’s fine. What’s concerning, though, is the number of times you've withdrawn your hand when it was truly needed. I’m no one to judge.
My humbling experiences with life, love, people, and things started making more sense when I stopped taking everything literally and began seeing the world not through my lens, filtered with influences, but as it is. The best lesson I picked up? Offering a hand when it’s needed—professionally, personally, or even to yourself.
I hope you make sense of this more than I believe you will. And if being useful ever makes you feel better in the future, don’t hesitate to drop me a text—that would fulfill my purpose.
Yours lovingly
Sreenivas Kamath