During my younger days, I used to feel empty. I did not get access to internet until I was finishing school. I was brought up in a community where the arts and humanities were scorned upon and where the pursuit of studies in the scientific field was the epitome of knowledge.
It took me 24 years to realize that despite my "doing well" in studies, I was meant to learn the arts and humanities. Over the past few months, Coursera has breathed a new lease of life into me. The platform has given me access to structured courses of a high quality from reputed universities. I have already done 4 courses in Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and History and I have signed up for more than 10 more such courses.
It seems a long time ago when people thought that my math abilities meant that I had to be a scientist or a math professor at some university.The pursuit of studies in visual arts, music, dance, is what I look towards in the next few years. I can sense that I will be living a very open-ended rich life filled with uncertainty about what new ideas will strike a chord with me.
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