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I’m Having a Marshmallow Test

Winter is coming, mate!
In psychology, a popular mental resilience test is conducted among kids under the age of 10. They are given a marshmallow candy and get an instruction:

Can you check your sugar teeth? Photo by Brigitte Tohm on Pexels.com
‘You are free to eat this candy right now. But if you can refrain from eating for the next ten minutes, you can have another candy as a reward.’

The reward for checking your instant gratification.

As you might wonder, ‘well, this is a pretty easy test, everybody should go for option 2. Waiting for 10 minutes is not a big deal at all if I can double it.

First of all, for a kid that 10 minutes of reticence is a significant battle between desire and self-control. We, the adults, have our own version of marshmallows in our daily lives. From the stock market to career choice, different options and timeframes entice us with several appeals.

Will you start running after the prey right now, or take your time to prepare? Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
For a kid, that is 10 minutes. For an adult like me, the timespan of the Marshmallow test will be for 10 years maybe.

And the reward is not confirmed either.

For a person like me, who has completed his academic career from the best possible credentials, doing a corporate job or going abroad might be instant career gratification.

These days, almost every day I am asked, ‘So what do you do for a living?’ Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
Instead, I am willing to choose something different, unconventional. A road that nobody has walked on so far.

The upshot is, if I get things right, the financial, mental, and societal rewards for me will be substantial. My current marshmallows can never pay me off per se.

But if I lose the battle, and the probability is almost 95% or even more, I have to bear the financial consequences for the rest of my life.

A wise man said people ask our professions so that they can give us respect based on our answers, Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com
And most importantly, I have to admit to my peers that I was wrong, I was chasing a mirage for the whole time. My life dream was a whole fucking lie.

And that will be really pathetic, or I don’t know, right now it is seeming to be pathetic.

Doing what I believe, Photo by Ivan Babydov on Pexels.com
I believe, nothing matters anything. The concept of ‘me,’ ‘myself,’ and ‘my existence’ really doesn’t matter. In a universal framework, my success or failure means iota (Zero actually) to eternity.

For now, as far as I can see, I want to keep my instant marshmallows away and get my shits together to pursue what I am meant to be.

Enough talk for today guys, let’s get back to work.

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