When in doubt - Just Jump

What's more important to start building a house than land, sand and water is confidence, I've learned.

I lacked it for about a year since the completion of my college (and throughout the four years in college XD) . I never really trusted myself to be able to make decisions big enough to build a house. I kept telling myself that what I learned in B Tech was far from sufficient, and to bridge the gap, I needed to gather experience before jumping into the project. I kept looking for opportunities to put myself in the field, learn, and gain experience from projects that were under someone else's responsibility before taking them on entirely on my own.

Learn how to "Just Jump" from Bahubali

After a couple of internships and six months of procrastination, I had to jump into the project, not because I was ready for it, but because I didn't have a choice.

The internships hadn't wholly given me all the confidence I needed, meanwhile, the six months of procrastination had pushed me into utter guilt to the point where I was ready to fail rather than not try and feel guilty.

[ Note: If you are waiting for the "D Day" when you are going to do things you have been waiting to do, please accept the fact that "D Day" never presents itself beautifully in front of you. You just pick a day (preferably today) and call it the "D Day" and just jump.]

You might still not entirely know what you are supposed to do, and that’s totally the point - you’ll never know enough, but you have to tell yourself that you will eventually figure it out.

And adding on to this there is another "light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel" factor that pushed me to want to dive in anyways.

The thought of how, once the first project is done, I would be able to invite all those people who wished me well to the housewarming excited me. Trust me, even a few days before I started the project, I had doubts about what if the ceiling collapsed, what if the foundation sank, and what if there were cracks on the first day of living there.

And then I imagined the housewarming and all my loved ones there, smiling at me proudly, I think that did the magic within me. I knew at that moment that I had to live in that space someday, and I am going to do whatever it takes to be there during those happy times.

So for that, I had to start to work.

The upcoming blogs would be a detailed run-through of my entire project because I wished someone showed me what happened inside and outside when they had to build a house.

All the best to myself and those on this journey alongside me.

I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions about the blog and the construction!

Cheers!