Your Lowest Point In Life = Opportunity To Reinvent Yourself

I wrote my first CV in the second week of university life when I was doing my undergraduate degree. It was for joining the debate club. I went home that night and looked at the empty A4 screen of the word document for God knows how long. 

Then I started filling out my details. Added my school and college info. And I didn't even reach half the page. So I increased the line-spacing to make it look longer. It still didn't amount to anything.

I was embarrassed. I was feeling sh!t. I didn't know of any big loser than myself with nothing to offer to the world. 

So I promised myself that I would change it for good. And so I did. 

I focused on only one university club instead of 5.

I took 3 tuitions to learn and earn. 

I took an additional job as a debate coach at a school. 

I worked for Transparency International for 2 years to work on national-level projects.

I worked for British American Tobacco Bangladesh for 2 years as one of the coordinators of Battle Of Minds. 

I worked for a voluntary UN youth organization for 4 years.

I traveled to 3 continents and 8 countries without paying a penny. 

I was a Wikipedian

My photography made it to 5 major student exhibitions with a jury award 

I was a contributor at the leading English newspaper-The Daily Star

I did countless hours of community service

I failed to launch a publication with my best friend.

I made countless business cases. 

We organized the second-largest debating tournament in the world. 

I worked for 14-15 hours a day. 

And these are not all!

The result? 

I struggled to keep my CV on one page. So I was the only fresh graduate I knew who had a two-page CV, which too was written conservatively, and with less than point 1 line spacing. 

Had it not been that lowest point in my life, presenting itself quite early on, I probably wouldn't have gotten out of my comfort zone to do something about it. 

Sometimes, being at your lowest point is a great opportunity. This is when we get absolute clarity of what needs to be done. This is when we reinvent ourselves and become a better version than before. 

So, if you feel you're in bad shape and life spun a curveball towards you, don't spin with it; spin through it. Use it as a reverse springboard. Take full advantage of this limiting state to course-correct yourself. Everything else will fall in place. 

Do you have any memories of personal transformation to share? 

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