So recently, I have been watching Emily in Paris, and somewhere between the cafés, career chaos, and quiet moments of self-doubt, I found myself relating more than I expected.
A little like Emily—scared, confused, unsure—yet still wanting to take that one small step forward.

I keep hoping that everything will turn out just fine.

I try many things, succeed at a few, fail at many, and still choose to try.

You know that feeling of living and wondering at the same time. You dream big, think deeply, plan endlessly, spending more time imagining life than actually living it.

Your mind is always busy creating possibilities, while execution quietly waits its turn.

Well, add me to the list of Day-dreamer here 🙂

Then there are those phases when you decide to do everything at once. You push harder, stretch further, and tell yourself you can handle it all, until exhaustion reminds you otherwise.

Because deep down, you want to do it all. And you want to have it all. And you wonder if that desire itself is too much, or simply human.

It is one life, after all. So you feel the urge to explore every corner of your mind, every part of you that has not yet been tested.
Maybe somewhere inside there is one small, overlooked thought that can change everything. Or maybe the change lies in the trying itself.

What matters is that you don’t want to live with regret.
You don’t want to wonder what would have happened if
you had taken that chance,
made that call,
written that blog,
or finally pursued the hobby you always postponed.

Well, if you ask me, I have failed more times than I can count, and if I am honest, those failures have taught me far more than my successes ever did. Maybe I don’t succeed at everything, but I walk away with stories, lessons, and a deeper understanding of myself.

And maybe, at the end of the day, that is what truly stays with you.

It is still a fresh new year. And here we are, ready to try again, ready to attempt a hundred different things, knowing fully well that we might fail at many of them.

Here’s to trying anyway.
Here’s to our failures.

Anindita Rath
@scrambledwriter

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