Invest in Yourself

Visakh Vijayan
3 min readAug 19, 2024

Focussing on others will only make you sad. We all have goals in life. But sooner or later we shift to a collective goal. Some of us want that the family to improve as a whole. We try to buy things. We try to educate others. We try to invest more financially so that they can focus on more important things in life.

We don’t realise that not everyone has to follow those same goals. Some are happy with what they have or where they are, instead of focusing on themselves. The time we devote to improving others, we should invest in ourselves.

Is the Time invested Properly

The reason is, that you are not identified by who you are with. The world is an endless possibilities game. There are n number of things that you can do because time is limited. What if we invest that time into others and that doesn't go well? We would be heartbroken right? Instead what if we invested the time into ourselves? That has a better chance of making a difference. Doesn’t it? At least if it doesn’t work out, you are not left with broken expectations. You just have learnings and experiences with yourself. Isn’t that life all about? Knowing yourself?

We lose ourselves growing up. We tend to focus on many different things in life and end up complicating it. We focus on the society. We focus on friends. We focus on strangers. We focus on world…

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Visakh Vijayan

Techie from Kerala, India. Days are for coding, nights for weaving tales of tech, travel, and finance. Join me in exploring this multifaceted journey