I was a very kind boy in my childhood, and I am now kinder. I consumed meat for more than 16 years, and at that time also I was kind. I could never look at a hen or a goat getting slaughtered; I would simply face my back. The taste was the only thing that kept me attached to meat. Most of the time, the meat was brought and cooked for me, and the killing part was skipped from my eyes.
I always loved helping people, which was one reason I wanted to become a doctor, simply because I could treat people affordably or for free and help people. I also wanted to open a hospital in my grandmother’s name because I love her so much.
I thought life would be simple; I would pass the medical exam and become a doctor. My father even said that if I qualified, I would send you to Kyrgyzstan to study MBBS, and then everything would be great, but then the Russia-Ukraine war started and the success ratio of people who did MBBS was too low, so my father dropped the plan of sending me to Kyrgyzstan, and I also had already started losing interest in NEET after class 11th.
One of the reasons why I dropped my plan of becoming a doctor was because it was simply too tough to crack the medical examination, and I wasn’t studying properly for it. I tried a lot of times, but I couldn’t keep myself motivated enough to keep studying.
The second reason was my desire to be a digital nomad or to travel full-time. This thing got me off track. I just wanted to travel full-time, and I still want that. I used to scroll through Instagram travel reels for hours, and I would feel lost in those reels. I would also like to watch travel vlogs. I loved the travel vlogs of Nomad Shubham, who is a full-time traveller from my home state of Bihar, and there were also a few others.
The third reason was that I could calculate that if I became a good doctor after a decade or so, I would be able to help a maximum of a few lakh people at most, as there is a limit for that, but I wanted to reach crores of people and even beyond that. Also, if I were to become a doctor, I would never accomplish my dream of travelling to all 196 countries in the world. I knew that if I wanted to reach out to crores of people, being a doctor wouldn’t help me. Also, I didn’t want to be old and then travel. I am 18 now, and I just want to travel full-time. Every passing second, I feel the burden on my chest of what I am doing now and what I must be doing.
Hence, these were the few reasons why I wanted and didn’t want to become a doctor. I don’t know whether I have made a right or wrong decision; let’s see how it goes.
Thanks for reading.
This is Navneet signing off from today’s blog.
Peace🕊️
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