Work for others and forget about it was my motto in the past.
I worked for numerous clients during my undergrad and freelance days in my teenage years. I created a few websites and basic applications to gain experience for my career growth. It started with a 3000 INR WordPress website and soon moved into working on a few UI UX projects. I was filled with hope until I realized I did not have any proof of my work.
Slowly, it turned into a blunder. I found myself searching through old backups just to show something to new clients. My first motto fell short for me. Being a nice guy and saying yes to clients without my own terms became my worst habit. When I got my first job, I stopped freelancing.
Creating ideas, making videos, and composing music continued in the background.
While working as an employee, I started documenting my work in one place and began building my own ideas from it. I created Kanban boards for my personal goals, and making my life an agile cycle slowly became part of who I was. Many productive things I learned at work became useful in shaping my personal goals. When my long term goal of passing JLPT N2 was finally completed, I was left feeling empty.
I had already published a website on GitHub Pages, but it was not enough for me. I wanted to document every moment of my life on my own domain. The reason was simple. I wanted full control over my data, although I still use social networks to share my thoughts.
Last year, I met someone in Italy who asked me if I had anything interesting to show the people I meet. I was speechless. I had a static website, but not something I truly loved to show.
That moment stayed with me. A year later, it turned into the idea of creating my own portfolio website. I worked on it for a week and published it on the first day of Navaratri, a festival of Goddess Durga in India, the goddess I devote myself to.
After that, I decided I would document everything there. My love for technology, content, life, spirituality, and more. I also started collecting written proof of my individual work from previous clients. They were generous enough to help me, and I am thankful to them.
To know more about this journey, visit: https://sahajbalgunde.com/
One lesson I learned is simple. If you have the desire to do something, do it anyway. The more you think before doing it, the more those thoughts will comfort you into hiding your best self. People never forget good deeds. They return them eventually.
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