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Hello. By now, you probably know who I am. My name is Vihaan Vaghela. After all, this website exists to document my thoughts and the systems I hope will outlast their creator. This is my first post. Now, I haven't fully explained why I decided to post in the first place. Let me explain:

See my parents always forced me to write a journal. I was inconsistent. Then I realized the so called "importance" of college. I started thinking about college. I thought a lot. I researched a ton, and I later found out that to get into college, grades (which I thought were the only factor) are not merely enough. Admission officers look at extracurriculars, achievements, and various other things. Leadership and an impact on the community by expressing your views, was a key part.

This is how I found out, that when my parents told me to journal, blog, vlog and express my thoughts, they were looking out for me and not forcing me to just mindlessly write.

Then I started to journal. I was consistent, until I wasn't... Consistency was the key to the lock to the doors of success. But whenever I tried to 'pick' that lock, time was my biggest enemy. I got distracted. I used to think that one day without journaling won't hurt. Will it? Long story short, it did. I didn't journal for 7 months on end and one day when I was lying in bed, scrolling, I became victim of a canonical event that almost every man is bound to go through. That event is now known as "THE GOGGINS EFFECT". Derived from the legendary David Goggins. It made me realize that I had potential, but I was wasting all of it by coming home, eating, playing Brawlstars. I hated myself. I decided to change. I did change. I changed a lot.

This is what compelled me to start blogging and expressing my views. Not college (though it was a major revelation inducing factor), not Goggins, but evolution. Growth.

My blogs are not going to be perfect. I'm sure that someplace or the other, you will be able to find an error, but that's not the point. It's about growth. All of my writings on this tab will be purely my own words. Not a single excerpt of an AI written text will be mentioned on this tab. I will document anything and everything that I feel like deserves a post, and in some cases I might also dedicate a entire post to a rant about something bothering me 😂.

I started blogging because I wanted to grow. And grow I will. Welcome to the archives.

-Vihaan Vaghela.