u/EnjoyingLyf

I scored 99.85 percentile in CAT and had a call from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. For years, this was supposed to be the dream. The kind of thing people around you celebrate instantly, without a second thought.

But to be honest, I don’t even know why I went for it so seriously in the first place. I don’t know what exactly kept me studying for the exam, pushing through interviews, obsessing over percentiles and calls. Maybe it was validation. Maybe it was fear of missing out. Maybe I just wanted to prove something to myself.

And now that I finally have it in front of me… I feel strangely disconnected from it.

Somewhere deep down, my gut just isn’t feeling right. Instead of excitement, there’s mostly confusion. And after months of overthinking, conversations, anxiety, and trying to convince myself, I’ve decided to let it go.

That scares me because opportunities like these don’t come often. There’s obviously this voice in my head saying, “What if this turns out to be the biggest mistake of your life?”

Maybe it is. Maybe I’m choosing uncertainty over a path that was already validated by society. But for once, I wanted to listen to myself instead of the noise around me.

So yeah, this is my signal to the world.
I hope I don’t regret it.

I scored 99.85 percentile in CAT and had a call from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. For years, this was supposed to be the dream. The kind of thing people around you celebrate instantly, without a second thought.

But to be honest, I don’t even know why I went for it so seriously in the first place. I don’t know what exactly kept me studying for the exam, pushing through interviews, and obsessing over percentiles and calls. Maybe it was validation. Maybe it was fear of missing out. Maybe I just wanted to prove something to myself.

And now that I finally have it in front of me… I feel strangely disconnected from it.

Somewhere deep down, my gut just isn’t feeling right. Instead of excitement, there’s mostly confusion. And after months of overthinking, conversations, anxiety, and trying to convince myself, I’ve decided to let it go.

That scares me because opportunities like these don’t come often. There’s obviously this voice in my head saying, “What if this turns out to be the biggest mistake of your life?”

Maybe it is. Maybe I’m choosing uncertainty over a path that was already validated by society. But for once, I wanted to listen to myself instead of the noise around me.

So yeah, this is my signal to the world.
I hope I don’t regret it.