Coming back to my blog after almost 1.5 to 2 years, it feels great. But I’m not feeling great at all. The reason is, I have learnt a tough lesson and I wanted to share it with you all.
“Never keep high expectations from something you don’t know much about”
Recently, I started trading in stock market (Options Index) and I got hold of a broker through one of my friends. At that point of time, I was doing quite well financially. Thinking trading would bring me some quick money, I jumped at the opportunity. Although I wasn’t expecting too much returns. With a capital of ₹14,000 I started trading.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and I have ₹1,70,000 in my DEMAT account. Life was over the moon, confidence was touching the sky. I felt like I could be a crorepati in months.
Fast forward 3 days, I had ₹20,000 in my DEMAT account.
I lost ₹1,20,000 in 3 days and had withdrawn the remaining to furnish my newly bought car.
For 2 weeks I didn’t trade. But a part of me became dependent on trading. So I came back, determined to earn more and save this time.
Fast forward to current date, I have ₹4000 in my DEMAT.
In these 3 months, I became so dependent on trading, that I was expecting to pay my bills through its income. And now I have literally nothing.
I just realised, that the thing I love doing (Teaching) and the thing I am a professional at (Counselling) have taken a back seat, just because I was expecting something huge from a niche I wasn’t even aware of 3 months back.
The message of this post is to let you remind that you all have a special talent or skill that you have been working on throughout your career. And suddenly you get distracted by something that can bring you quick money or give you instant fame or whatever fancy it is in your life. And then you fail. You fail because you start expecting too much from a field that you know nothing about.
If you ever face that situation, STOP!! Take a moment, think, give your skills priority and take the step. Learn the new field, practice and then if you feel you’re good enough, take the LEAP!!
I have made a mistake, but I believe I’ve learnt something more valuable than the money I lost.
Yes, I’ll come back to trading. But this time, with knowledge. Easy money doesn’t last. But thankfully for me, I still have ₹4000 to save 😉.
So, as I said, NEVER KEEP HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF SOMETHING YOU KNOW DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT!
The Verbal Explainer 