Shadow: .........What did you study?
Me: Engineering Stuff.
Shadow: Stuff? Were the mid-terms hard? I asked you what you studied!
Me: Computer Science.
Shadow: Why?
Me: I don't know.
Shadow: What did you wanna do?
Me: Solve problems and stuff.
Shadow: And stuff, yeah I got that. That means you have to get more schooling.
Me: Too much school.
Shadow: Would you rather be dead? Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?
Me: No, please no!
Shadow: I'm keeping your license. I'm gonna check in on you. I know where you live. If you're not on your way to becoming what you want to be in six weeks, you will be dead. Now run on home.
I got up and ran as fast as I could towards my apartment. I could still hear him in my head talking to me and saying that tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of my life. That my breakfast will taste better than any meal anyone has ever tasted. After that, I don't remember much of it. Next day, I woke up wearing shoes with headphones in my ear and Fight Club running on my laptop.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Even two years after that, when I'm writing this article from my room in IIM Trichy campus, I am not sure whether everything that transpired that night was a dream or not. But I can surely say that the next day after that night was really the most beautiful day of my life and the breakfast the most satisfying ever. And till this day, I remember those words and strive towards my true purpose.
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