Written by Mrunalii Jadhav

I’ve learnt a few lessons this year, and one of them is Stepping Away.

On my journey to accomplish the visions of my vision board 2025, I’ve discovered that no habit is easy to follow.

For example, when I started writing two days ago, it felt so magical and doable. But reality is always on the run to smash into your face, and with that being said it hit me in 48 hours.

Writing down my thoughts today felt so boring, and I was so demotivated to write. But promises are meant to be kept — so here I am writing again.

My exams are in 6 days and I was distracted today. I felt like I have suddenly slipped into the same trance that Alice slipped in.

I couldn’t tell where my time was going, the entire day was weirdly hot and humid.

Though, there are about gazillion reasons I could give, when I thought about writing and keeping my promises today, I immediately thought of doing something. Anything.

Even a small step to complete at least one vision on my vision board. For, it was me who decided that I’ll do something everyday so that I can write about it.

I wanted to stay loyal and keep the promise I made to myself.As I am writing this on 24 September 2025, there are surprisingly plenty of things that I did today.

I sat down and compiled all my scattered novel ideas. Turns out I have 4 different plots that I am interested in writing about.

I segregated all the plots and jotted down plot points for each.

With that being said, there are 2 plots that I am thinking of writing about — though I can only write about 1 at a time.

But suddenly, somehow, as I started to work towards the novel, completing the tasks didn’t feel hard.

I noted down all the websites where I could publish my novel to get maximum reach and set up accounts for myself.

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Then I got distracted.I started scrolling my Instagram, forgetting about the upcoming exams and also the 100 Days Rush project.

I also somehow found myself watching a K Drama. And I won’t lie, I enjoyed every bit of it — but I didn’t have that kind of time.

This is the step where I made a mistake today. I shouldn’t have wasted hours today.

Compensating and bouncing back on my Novel journey, I decided to create a link tree page as well to assemble all my logins and that brings me to this moment.

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I learnt that, I am a slave to my screen. So, its better to schedule my social media times. I am going to look for some kind of app to do that for me.

I don’t regret today, but I’ve learnt to step away from things early on that won’t serve me in the long run.

And I think that is one good thought proces