Executing your Passion

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I'd like to tell you a story. Just a random incident, which stuck with me. A couple of months ago, I went to a shopping mall in Bangalore. I was just passing the time while my friends were buying clothes for an event. While I was crossing a shop in the mall, a lady in her 40s with a jute bag on her shoulders, walked towards me. I'll be all honest, I thought she came to me to sell some random product that I'm definitely not gonna buy and I am gonna waste my time explaining to her why I can't buy that product. She said that she stays nearby to the mall, and comes to the same spot once in a while to promote her Youtube channel. By all means, I was shocked. I thought marketing a youtube channel is done only through social media for the most part. Yet, here I am looking at a 40+ lady waiting in the mall, in her simplest dressing style, promoting her youtube channel.

My introverted mind could never have done anything like that even to my closest friends. She was doing all that to a stranger. That was truly brave. She was very confident as she was explaining to me what kind of videos she puts up on the channel and asked me to support her. Her smile was extremely warm and gentle while I searched for her channel and clicked subscribe. All this happened for about a min, but that minute stuck with me till today. I can't even imagine how much of courage it takes just to talk to people, let alone explain what you are trying to do while people ignore you. She had gained my respect too, including a subscription.

I don't know what difference a subscription makes for me, as my Youtube homepage suggests random videos all the time and never of my subscribed channels. Still, me doing that small help of clicking on the red button on youtube boosted her passion and helped her at least by some means to make more videos of what she loves.

Here is her channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kilaru27

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  1. AnonymousApril 20, 2023 at 9:20 PM

    And finally👏 Good narration Rahul

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  2. AnonymousApril 20, 2023 at 9:31 PM

    I wish you had the same courage to talk to people

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    1. Rahul AkkenapallyApril 21, 2023 at 1:30 PM

      I hope so too😁. Thanks for the support

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  3. AnonymousApril 20, 2023 at 9:45 PM

    👏👏👏

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  4. AnonymousApril 20, 2023 at 9:51 PM

    Good one, now that one min is stuck in my brain too

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  5. AnonymousApril 20, 2023 at 11:05 PM

    The little things which make a Big difference on a personal level has to be learnd through the experiences will happen to individuals on a random time stamps on space which are ' unexpected ' and that can be inspiring for many people who not only get those experiences but also reading the experiences of people like you who puts efforts to share it...thank you for the good work.

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    1. Rahul AkkenapallyApril 21, 2023 at 1:31 PM

      Thankyou for those amazing words🙂

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  6. Meghana sharmaApril 21, 2023 at 2:14 AM

    That little help from you made her day. Good action that you didn’t ignore her like others did.

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  7. Divya ReddyApril 21, 2023 at 8:49 AM

    Very Little things makes a big difference in many people life

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  8. AnonymousApril 22, 2023 at 5:50 AM

    I felt really good after reading this

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