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Terrain: What If Your Environment Is Quietly Making Your Decisions for You?
Why Do Other People’s Expectations Sometimes Become Our Personal Limitations?
Mansi, a twenty-two-year-old girl, had always been academically brilliant, ambitious and confident about her future.
She had recently completed her engineering degree with excellent grades and a dream of pursuing higher education at a reputed university abroad.
After months of preparing applications, entrance examinations and scholarship documents, she finally secured admission to a prestigious university abroad, along with a scholarship covering a substantial portion of her educational expenses.
Around the same time, she also received a job offer from a company in a nearby city, allowing her to continue living with her family.
For Mansi, the decision initially seemed clear.
She wanted to pursue her master’s degree abroad, experience a different academic environment and explore opportunities that weren’t available to her locally, but the people around her had a different opinion.
When Mansi shared the news with her family, her parents were proud of her achievements. However, when relatives and other people learned about her plans, the conversations began changing.
