As you've read in the title, this is my story about changing my life and its priorities. I'm sure that many of the users will somehow relate to my story so I'll try to keep it as simple as possible and for the newcomers who are about to take some new steps in life, I hope that you'll get some lesson out of my story. The story is gonna be interesting and a lil bit emotional. So, give it a read.

Background

I was born in a lower-middle-class family so struggling was in my blood from the start. I'm the middle child of the family. My father used to work abroad so that we can get a good education and healthy food on the table. I have an elder brother who is an academically proven genius and a younger sister who is still figuring out what to do in life. I was considered to be a bright student by my family and teacher as I was getting good grades at the start. But as I was growing older, I started getting distracted from literally everything happening around me. All those distractions were affecting my studies one way or another. Somehow I managed to graduate from high school with pretty good grades but as good as my brother's (since he had 95 percentile in high school). My next stop was college and I was really excited about it but not for long.

The lowest points of my life

Misplaced child

As soon as college started, I started feeling like a misplaced child in that college. Most of the lectures were going over my head and I wasn't able to concentrate on anything. I used to come, go to my room and play video games all day long without even changing my uniform. Pretty much, I was the spoiled kid of my family. My brother went to university after graduating from college in extraordinary grades (once again). So, I was on my own all the time. Also, I caught feelings for a girl who was way out of my league. Soon, we were in a relationship. I was having the best time of my life. Everything was just joyous and beautiful but there is an old saying "Good things don't last for long". Suddenly, things took a sharp turn. My relationship was going through a rough patch. My ex was mentally torturing me with tantrums and everything. No matter what I did, she used to find a way to blame me for everything. This was surely affecting my studies. I used to sleep during the lecture so I could give her time all night. My finals were near and I knew my mental health is getting serious. Feeling like a burden on everyone was killing me from inside. And then, I found out my ex was cheating on me with some other guy. That broke me so hard that I fell into this deep pit of depression. I got the lowest grade that I and my family could ever imagine. I used to lock myself in the room all day and cry. After a lot of insisting by my aunt, I went to see a psychiatrist where I got to know that I've been suffering from bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder and overdosing

After getting diagnosed with bipolar disorder, The doctor recommended going through some therapy sessions and prescribed me some mind-relaxing pills. I ditched the therapy but went for the pills. After a while, I was addicted to it. I used to take 4 to 5 pills at once. I don't remember anything from that phase of life. All I remember is I dropped 10kg weight in 15 days as I was not eating anything or not enough at all. Soon, the overdosing started affecting me physically. One day, I was lying on my bed, all high and suddenly, I vomited on the floor. It was all blood, nothing else. I was rushed to the hospital where I had to go through a quick surgery. Waking up after 3 days in the hospital, doctors told me that I lost almost 70% of the blood of my body before I reached the hospital. Then, I saw my mother crying and that was the moment when I knew that it's time to change myself. I went for the therapy sessions and I started my recovery.

Father's demise

In 2019, my father came back from abroad due to some medical complications. Soon, the doctors diagnosed him with prostate cancer. Without wasting any time, he went through the surgery and had the tumor removed. But the problem was he wasn't recovering. His health was deteriorating with every day passing. Soon, we found out that his cancer has spread in his abdomen through the backbone and he has to go through radiation now. After going through a lot of radiation sessions, cancer was still there and it was mutating faster than doctors expected. In a month, cancer has reached his lungs and doctors just gave up on him. They tried everything but it wasn't enough. After his last painful days, he slept for eternal peace on 2nd may,2020 after one year of fighting with cancer. My whole family was shattered because we never ever saw it coming. To me, he was my best friend and now he was gone. As a man, I had to hold myself and my family but how could I? Every memory was going through my head and I was doing nothing, just crying and picking myself up. 2020 took the most precious thing from us and we couldn't do anything about it.

Turning point

After the father's demise, I had to take a step and start earning so I could make some money for my university fees. A friend of mine hired me as a content writer. I started writing content for others' websites. The pay was low but it was still better than nothing. I was improving with time but my salary wasn't. After getting scammed for 13k by my client, I decided to leave it and look for something else.

Crypto: The new interest of my life

I got to know from my friend about cryptocurrency and the blockchain market. Before that, all I knew about was Bitcoin and Ethereum. The whole concept of blockchain intrigued me and I decided to give it a try. Keep in mind that I was performing pretty well in my university (3.5+ GPA). I started studying cryptocurrency and how it works. The more I studied about it, the more it caught my attention. All I used to was the study coins, the market pattern, and charts even though I had no knowledge about it. The field fascinated me so much that I started loving it. I was so excited to take my first entry into the market. So, I started working as a content writer again, worked hard enough to earn 50$ from it. I invested all of it in the altcoins. I know it's nothing as compared to the volume of the market but to me, it was everything. Now, I'm still new to this field but I love it already. It has given me a new push to my life. Even though I've no money to invest in the market so far but I'm planning to do a side job and invest my salary in cryptocurrency.

Nowadays, all I think about cryptocurrency and how can I invest more of my time and money in it. I've started studying chart analysis on my own and hopefully soon, I'll be able to take a stronger step in the market which I'm really excited about. Wish me luck, guys