This article is written by Ramanuj Mukherjee, CEO, LawSikho.

“This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

~ Tyler Durden, Fight Club

I have a fear that drives me every day. There is so much, so much opportunity before me. Would I make something of it? 

The vision of what is possible, the heights we can achieve, the beauty we can pursue, the marvels we can invent and things we can make happen – it’s stupendous. 

Once you realise what is possible, there is no resting. 

You go to sleep thinking about how you are going to achieve those sublime results. You dream of it in your restless sleep. You wake up with ideas you want to execute impatiently.

Obstacles appear small and naysayers come and go. 

You look back and realise the things that are holding you back. You are now ready to leave them behind, because you refuse to carry this baggage all the way. 

You notice changes in your personality and the energy with which you attack the next problem.

You attract and galvanize people around you who are driven by the same dream. All of you discuss what is possible and how to get there rather than discussing how the rest of the world is not even trying. 

That’s the beginning of a powerful community driven by a common purpose, the beginning of a subculture, the genesis of an unstoppable force that aims to change the course of history itself.

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The spark becomes a fire that consumes anything in its path. 

What’s the hurry?

It’s your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. 

Once you are up to something grand, when your life is dedicated to a mission and a pursuit of something greater than just yourself, life finds a new kind of meaning.

Death seems like an inconvenient movie break and you know you don’t want to miss the climax so you want the inevitable break to not come earlier.

But you know that it’s not even a comma in the scheme of things. The vision is so much bigger than your life and it belongs to the world.

You are now unstoppable.

Where did I find this?

I have been lucky to come across people who opened my eyes, who forced me to imagine the greatest version of my vision. 

I resisted at the beginning. It seemed unreasonable, unnecessary and scary.

But then at some point I took out the time to fully imagine it and even wrote it down. I shared it with others, who were equally incredulous to start with.

But with every conversation, every iteration, I came to see how utterly possible and obvious it was.

It was not reasonable, it was not realistic, but it was possible and that is enough. It is a vision.

The adventures of a lifetime, the call to arms, the path to victory – it’s dangerous and fraught with difficulties. There is no guarantee of success. And still, it is the frontier of civilization itself. Our vision goes beyond the boundaries of the known universe and we want to push those boundaries.

Why did countless men try to climb Mount Everest and lost their lives trying? Why did Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay still made the arduous journey to the highest peak knowing the risk?

Climbing Everest is not anything astounding today. We have to find higher peaks. That’s why we aim for space exploration maybe?

Closer to home, we have some impossible peaks to scale too. Making justice available to people, creating extraordinary lawyers who transform the legal system, and revolutionizing legal education in the world is the peak we are trying to scale at LawSikho.

Resources are meager, number of detractors and disbelievers are far larger than those who back us, and the path gets harder than ever as we make progress.

But we have never been more excited, more determined, stronger in our resolve than we are today. What we have achieved is minuscule before what we have ahead of us. The rest of the world may congratulate us for what’s behind, but new possibilities beckon us.

That’s our peak that we are going to put a flag on.

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