Not because I didn’t want to be here. But because I had spent so long believing that success requires a perfect, linear map . Graduate. Get the job. Climb the ladder. Repeat.
Being a modern Indian woman in a creative field comes with its own unique hum. The hum of expectations. "When will you settle down?" sits right next to "Why aren't you earning more?" in the symphony of family WhatsApp forwards. megha das
I don't know what the next year holds. Maybe I'll go back to a corporate job. Maybe I'll write a book. Maybe I'll surprise myself and take a pottery class. Not because I didn’t want to be here
With love and a little bit of chaos,
I moved cities last spring. Left a stable marketing role in Bangalore to freelance in Bombay. On paper, it looked brave. In reality, it looked like me, crying over a spreadsheet at 11 PM, wondering why I had turned down a perfectly good paycheck for "creative freedom." Get the job
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