The Motivation I Never Planned
Hi… I am Ayaan. And this is a small story about motivation. The kind nobody plans for. Every day after lunch, I go for a walk inside the office campus. It's nothing special. No fitness goal. No step count target. Just a quiet habit I built for myself — a way to break the afternoon, clear my head, and get back to work feeling slightly more human. For months, I kept crossing the same two guys walking in the opposite direction. Every time we passed each other, there would be a smile, a quick hi , and we'd keep moving. Sometimes they'd joke, "You already finished one round? We've not even completed half the round. We are just walking slow." I'd just laugh and keep walking. This went on for two, maybe three months. A small ritual between three strangers who never really spoke beyond those few seconds of crossing paths. Then recently, one of them joined my team. We started talking more. We even began going to the gym together. The kind of friendship that bu...
