🌿🌿 A boy trapped in the circle of survival… never returned home. 🌿🌿
My Only Purpose in writing this story is to remind others not to lose their entire life while chasing a single job.
This is not written for sympathy.
This is not a fake story — every word reflects a reality many people live silently.
✍🏻 I am a man who spent his whole life working.
Not building dreams…
Not building memories…
Only working.
I believed that one day, this job would reward me with peace.
I was wrong.
I was young when I joined my first job.
I was full of energy, ambition, and hope.
I told myself, “I will work for a few years, gain experience, then move to a better job and live properly.”
That “few years” never ended.
The job was far away from my family.
I stayed away thinking it was temporary.
I missed weddings, funerals, celebrations, and simple family dinners.
Every time my heart asked to go home, my job said, “Just wait a little more.”
And I listened.
I wanted to change my job many times.
I wanted to live differently.
I wanted to breathe freely.
But responsibilities chained me.
Fear stopped me.
Age slowly cornered me.
Each year, I told myself,
“Next year I will change.”
But next year always came with new excuses.
I became stuck — like a train trapped on one track,
moving forward but never reaching a destination.
I was earning…
But I was losing.
I lost time with my parents.
I lost moments with my siblings.
I lost friendships.
I lost myself.
While others were building families,
I was building files.
While others were making memories,
I was counting days off that never came.
I gave my best energy to my job
and left my family with leftovers of my time.
One day, I realized I was no longer young.
My reflection had changed.
My strength had faded.
The same job that once needed my youth
now saw me as replaceable.
I had given it my entire life,
but it never gave me a life in return.
Today, changing a job feels impossible.
Starting again feels frightening.
Going home feels strange.
Years have passed.
I am older now — not retired, not settled, just tired.
I didn’t fail because I was lazy.
I failed because I waited too long
to choose myself.
I thought loyalty to a job would secure my future.
But I forgot one thing:
A job can replace you.
Your family cannot.
If you are young and reading this, remember:
Do not get stuck on one track.
Do not delay life thinking it will wait for you.
Do not give your entire soul to a job that only needs your time.
Work — yes.
But live too.
I am still working.
Still far away.
Still carrying the weight of years I cannot return.
This is not a story of failure.
It is a story of delay.
And sometimes, delay costs more than loss.
🌙 Life lesson:
Jobs come and go.
Time does not.
Choose wisely.