Life is simple but we, humans, intervene and complicate it. This isn’t a passing thought; it’s a lesson my writing journey has taught me over the years.
But the sad part is that it took me 15 years to realise this, to realise my strengths, to realise that life is actually simple.
If you wait to do something you love, you’d probably wait forever. It’s that simple.
Before talking about my impromptu life decisions and which ones were the best or worst, let’s first do a little warm up. I know it’s been a long time since I wrote here, but trust me, I’ll never forget my roots and that’s the reason I still pay for this website (to godaddy.com) and keep it alive to stay in touch with my most loyal and beautiful reader, that is you.
I hope you are doing good in life and that your smile is still intact. Well, on some days, I know it might disappear, but please remember that your smile is the most precious thing you have. So, nurture it whenever you can.
So, coming back to my impromptu decisions I made in life over the span of 15 years, and which ones have been the best.
1. My degree
I’m an Electronics Engineer-3 years of diploma and another 3 years degree in the same field. But pursuing this course wasn’t my decision. Somebody told me and I obeyed, as I myself didn’t know what I wanted to do in life.
But that’s absolutely fine. I studied sincerely for 6 six years and got placed in one of the top MNCs.
2. My first impromptu decision
In the very first year of my course, I discovered a space called – “blog” on the internet. It immediately grabbed my attention and without any second thought I googled how to create a blog, named it, Hello India, and started writing there.
To my surprise, the introverted girl that I was had the audacity to publish that first amateur piece of article with the world. But now that I ponder over it, I think that was the best impromptu decision of my life.
If I hadn’t hit that publish button, I wouldn’t have evolved the way I have over the years.
3. The riskiest leap
After working in the MNC for over 2 years, I was done. I took up a professional writing course, started this paid website (shraddharane.com), began writing professionally, listened to my calling and decided to pursue writing full-time.
It was a task to convince my parents, but their love overpowered my riskiest life decision. I struggled for several years, worked day in and day out. Infact worked more than I was working in the MNC. But the biggest difference was – I was happy and satisfied.
4. Published several books
Writing blogs and receiving wonderful responses from my readers gave me the courage and the confidence to go ahead and publish my books. Again, publishing an eBook first was the best decision because it led a foundation for my publishing journey.
And then there was no stopping. I’ve published 4 eBooks and 2 Paperbacks ever since.
5. Escaped my Comfort Zone
I’ve always been camera shy for the longest time. But the moment I realised this won’t help me in the long run, I started practicing talking into my camera. This was one of the biggest steps I took to rise up from my comfort zone.
And that’s how my first YouTube channel came into being. For a girl like me who’d never participate in any kind of individual competitions in school, this was the biggest achievement of all.
6. The top-notch impromptu decision
I published videos on YouTube, but I was never consistent. Currently, I have 763 subscribers, but the slow growth further demotivated me.
But does that mean I gave up? Ofcourse, not!
One day, on 17th June 2025, without having any specific vision in my mind, just like that, out of nowhere, and just with a passing thought I started a Marathi channel.
I still don’t believe I actually did. For the past 15 years, I had been writing in English, but surprisingly this sudden shift didn’t really feel difficult as much as I thought it would be.
Today, we’re a 6k+ family on my Marathi channel. After all this, my mother tongue helped me reach my voice to thousands of like-minded people. Isn’t that “Wow?”
Out of all the above decisions, each has been impromptu, and it’s difficult to choose the best one. Because each decision led to another and so on. But I will accept one at the end of this blog.
You know, all these decisions and events that took place in my life weren’t as easy as I’ve narrated them above. While I was pursuing each and everything, be it a blog post, an Instagram reel, my books, or a YouTube video, I constantly went through serious self-doubt.
But the good thing is I still did it anyway.
Now when I look behind and see the vulnerable me, I actually feel proud of everything that I’ve created. And I cannot afford to lose anything that I’ve built in the past years.
Last month, due to procrastination, I had lost this website/blog of mine. Apparently, GoDaddy had sent me enough reminders to renew my domain, but I had put it off for the longest time. And one day when I sat to renew the account, my money was deducted but all my data was lost. My heart went numb, my hands got sweaty, and I was unable to speak. Losing my blogs which I had written from the bottom of heart were gone.
After a couple of minutes, I regained my senses and started a conversation with the customer care. The bot couldn’t really resolve my problem, so I further escalated the issue to a human customer care official. After a lot of back and forth and a lot of pleading from my side, finally he said, “Please refresh the website after 90 minutes and you should have your data back”.
I can’t tell you how much those words meant to me. On the 90th minute, I refreshed shraddharane.com and all my blogs were in front of my eyes. That day I realised the real importance of doing things on time and not procrastinating them till the last moment.
Anyways, the reason I shared this incident with you is to emphasize on the fact that how much this blog means to me. I know it’ll keep me grounded, always.
Also, I recently came across a post on Instagram which said, “Just Make It Exist First, You Can Make It Good Later”. And I was so mesmerized upon reading this because this is exactly what I’ve done with everything that I’ve started. I didn’t know how things worked or how they should have worked. All I knew was I wish to do this, and I did. With practice, I slowly got better at it.
Now coming back to the question that which ones have been my best impromptu decision – it is starting a Marathi YouTube channel. You know why? Because this channel gave my work a validation in its truest sense.
I’ve created a vast content in English but none of my closed ones ever understood my content, my thoughts, my feelings, because they did not understand English. Though my parents understood English, they didn’t really resonate with my content.
But it’s been just a few months into creating content my Shabda Sanvad channel and the kind of love I’m getting for my work is unbelievably warm and fulfilling. Something I always craved for.
So, I was just a language shift away from getting into limelight. Again, I didn’t know if I’d sustain this new venture of mine, but I sailed through and today we are a 6k + family on YouTube.
You know somewhere deep down, I was scared of the language switch. That what if I’d forget writing in English. But after writing this blog, I’m happy. It certainly was a smooth switch.
If you’ve reached till here, then I just want to take a moment to thank you for all your support and love. Because,
“Readers make writers”
I hope I was able to convey my feelings to you well. Let’s start a conversation in the comment section below. If you have any questions, shoot!
I’ll see you in the next blog, till then, keep smiling and take care!
