Siddharth Rajsekar played professional cricket for Vidarbha for over a decade before abandoning art for 24 years. Despite success on the field, he felt empty without it. COVID-19 pushed him to become an art coach, finally filling the void his cricket career couldn't.
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I actually was a professional cricketer. For almost 10 to 15 years, I played for my state, Vidharbha. And being in cricket, I learned a lot of life lessons. We fall back, we fail, we succeed, we have good days, bad days, a lot of life lessons. But then, as I was still playing cricket and had this as a passion and wanted to represent my country, there was a small thing inside of me, a small desire, a small feeling, a small passion that was always on the back seat, and was art. For almost 24 years, I did not pick up a pencil. I did not pursue art even for hobby because nobody really appreciated that. Nobody actually supported what I really loved, and that's why I felt empty inside. I used to feel a lot of pain. I just felt something is missing in my life, and I did not know what that really was. Year after year, I kept feeling the same feelings. Even though life looked amazing on the outside, internally I was completely empty. From actually experiencing the lowest of my times to then also to experiencing an identity shift, to exploring a new world of digital coaching, experiencing success, prosperity. Oh my God, I've experienced it all during the COVID.