The Shark in my Tank: Finding the balance between challenging myself and caring for my mental health
A couple of days ago, I was scrolling through LinkedIn (yes, I am that sort of a person). I came across this story written very much in the format of a WhatsApp forward – it ended with “loved this story, couldn’t resist sharing it ahead” or some variation of that sentence. Here is my paraphrased version of the story: the people of a certain country had a preference for fresh fish, but the water near their country had hardly any fish. To feed their population, the fishing boats went further into the sea and returned with the fish they found. However, by that time, the fish were long dead and the meal was no longer fresh. This brought down the price of fish in the markets. To overcome this challenge, the fishing companies installed freezers on the boats. The new fishing boats went out into the sea and returned with the frozen fish. This, too, was not to the mark for the people – it was better than the dead, unrefrigerated fish, but it still wasn’t fresh. People stopped buying fish in