By Sandeep | YogiWrites.co.in
Welcome to the After-Party of Your Dreams
You got the thing.
The dream job. The six-figure revenue. The blue tick. The flat stomach. Maybe the applause, the award, the dream partner, the TEDx invite. You got it.
And then… you quietly panicked.
Like a kid who finally gets his birthday cake and suddenly realizes he doesn’t like chocolate anymore. Or maybe never did.
Welcome to the Success Hangover—where everything you thought would make you feel alive just made you feel. Period.
This post is for that silent ache behind the “I made it” smile. For that awkward question in the mirror: Why do I feel so… nothing?
The Door That Opened to Nowhere
I remember the day I hit my first 100K blog views.
I was sitting on my cousin’s old bean bag, still in my boxers, hair looking like a rejected shampoo ad. The laptop screen glowed with those beautiful six digits.
I should’ve screamed, right? Called someone and bragged. Posted a story with confetti emojis.
Instead, I whispered to myself: “Is that it?”
I refreshed the page twice, like maybe the dopamine was stuck in traffic somewhere. I waited for the cosmic orchestra to play. Nothing. No angels descended. No divine light flooded the room. Not even a mosquito congratulated me.
Later that night, over chai with a friend who’d just launched his startup, he was buzzing with energy, eyes bright with possibility.
“So what’s next for YogiWrites?” he asked.
I stirred my tea slowly. “Honestly, bro… I feel like I’ve been standing at the door of a temple I wanted to enter my whole life. And now I’m inside, and it’s empty.”
He didn’t laugh. He just nodded like he knew.
Because he did. Because we all do. Eventually.
The Myth of Arrival
Here’s the myth most of us buy into:
That once we “arrive,” life will finally begin. We’ll finally feel complete. The childhood wounds will heal. The self-worth will skyrocket. And our inner child will clap like a circus monkey because we did it.
But life… she’s cheeky.
She shows us that dreams are just milestones, not medicine. Success is just packaging. And if your soul was starving before, no trophy will feed it.
We confuse achievement with alignment. Success becomes a costume we wear, hoping it’ll feel like skin.
But here’s the bitter truth: If you didn’t love who you were before the success, you’ll struggle to love who you become after it.
The goalposts don’t just move—they disappear entirely. Because the game was never about reaching them.
Why You Feel Empty After the High
You’re not broken. You’re just sober.
Success is intoxicating. It gives you a high—validation, attention, a sense of control. For a moment, you feel invincible. Special. Chosen.
But every high has a crash.
And in that crash, you meet yourself. Not the version Instagram claps for. Not the one your parents are proud of. But the raw, questioning, confused, beautiful mess of a human that you are.
That’s where the real work begins.
If success was your sprint, alignment is your marathon. If achievement was your selfie, inner peace is your mirror. If the dream was your destination, wholeness is your home.
It’s okay to feel disoriented after a big win. It’s your soul asking for recalibration. It’s not failure—it’s feedback.
The question is no longer what do I want? It’s who do I want to be—every single day?
A Gentle Nudge from Someone Who’s Been There
So if you’re sitting on your version of a bean bag, staring at your six digits or whatever success looks like to you… and wondering why you feel like a hollow balloon with glitter on it—
I want you to know this:
You’re not alone. You’re just waking up.
And no, the answer isn’t to chase the next goal. The answer is to come home to yourself.
Start small:
- Take a walk without your phone
- Breathe without an agenda
- Write without posting
- Move your body because you love it, not because you hate it
- Sit with yourself without Netflix
Build joy, not just metrics. Create meaning, not just moments.
The success hangover isn’t a bug—it’s a feature. It’s life’s way of asking: Now that you have what you wanted, what do you actually need?
And hey, if this post gave you that “uff yeh toh main hoon” feeling, share it with your success-chasing friends. Maybe we can all wake up together.
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Let the applause fade. Let your breath return. And maybe, just maybe… you’ll meet yourself in the quiet.
Until next time—don’t chase dreams blindly. Chase alignment.
And drink some water. You look spiritually dehydrated. 😄
—Sandeep ✍🏽
YogiWrites: Where souls come to breathe
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