I cracked exams, followed the “right path,” and still had to re-educate myself at 29.

Maybe the problem isn’t kids being confused.
Maybe it’s the system!!

Writing this with a heavy heart because I see my close ones going through the same scrutiny I once did.

“If I don’t score well in 12th, what will I do?”
“If I don’t crack AIEEE, how will I succeed in life?”

I’m not against education.
I’m against a system that conditions kids to believe their worth = marks.

All my life, I studied believing I had to get a job.
And when I finally left the corporate world, it took me 3–4 months to re-educate myself to unlearn what I was told success looks like.

That’s when I realised: this is not how it’s done.

Our grading system is so flawed that it forgets the very purpose of education to help you think.

We get angry at 16–17-year-olds for not being “serious” about life,

yet I was 29 when I finally asked myself how to get out of a so-called prestigious engineering field I never chose consciously.

Not ungrateful but honest.

Honest about the years spent just following what everyone else was doing.

This needs to stop.

Today’s generation has YouTube, the internet, access to information we never had.
They don’t need to walk the same path we did to prove themselves.

They can explore earlier.
Fail earlier.
Learn faster.
Build differently.

Marks don’t define intelligence.
Degrees don’t define capability.
And fear should never define a child’s future.

Let kids breathe.
Let them think.
Let them choose

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