Quarter - Life conversations - The little red ants

I think when you're coming to the end of your studies, I guess the main concern is finding a stable job because there's school fees to pay back and then you start to earn a keep for yourself, for your family and stuff like that. When we decided to start, we were all uncertain about the future of the company. But we all decided that it was a leap of faith and as long we all put in 110 percent, even if it fails we've tried our best. When you're young, after you graduate yes there are many uncertainties, but it's also the best time to fail. It's like failing forward. I mean so what if you fail I mean you can just move on. It was a good time then. To start up a business, you definitely need to have a certain pool of money. To feed yourself, to buy equipment. The other problem was to find jobs. It was hard because you are very young. You look like young punks who are, who don't know what you're doing. So we had to prove them wrong. We slogged hard and eventually it paid off. I think the grass is always greener on the other side I think we have to learn to manage that thought in our mind. One of the ways to cope for me was to just hang out with like-minded people. The people that are with you in this phase of your life are very important. Whether it's joining your company as your business partners or friends you interact with outside just to assure you that you're not in the worst of situations. That things are going to be better. I think it's perfectly fine. At the quarter-life crisis, if you don't know what you want to do it's perfectly normal. What I tried was to go for different experiences. Step out of your comfort zone and try everything. If you don't know what you like, find out what you don't like. And then you just start canceling. And eventually when you go through experiences, I think life would bring you to where you should go in the end. So if you're lost at 25, be lost. It's okay. Wander around aimlessly, eventually you'll find things when you're lost. I mean every one of us are still finding ourselves everyday. It's always an ongoing process. So the quarter-life crisis might be a blessing in disguise. Because it's time for you to experiment, it's time for you to get lost. To wander around. To find out who you really are.