A 2016 video of Sushant Singh Rajput from SJMSOM, IIT Bombay has gone viral for all the right reasons. The actor who passed away by suicide on Sunday can be seen speaking about the biggest lie and the only truth he have been told about success. Sushant’s tragic and untimely demise at the young age of 34 years has left his countless fans in shock. He said that the biggest lie he has ever been told is that money plus recognition is equal to happiness is equal to success. 

In the video, he said, “I come from a middle-class family, and when I was growing up, money was a big differentiator in my life. My family told me I had to become an engineer. Once I am an engineer, I can try the Civil Services Examination and that will be opening the doors for all kinds of happiness. Finally, I slogged and got admission in Delhi College of Engineering.”

However, that did not make him happy and just two semesters before getting his degree, he dropped out of college with dreams of becoming an actor. He said, “I became an actor because I had a problem.” He said that after he got his big break in Pavitra Rishta, he bought himself a house, a car, and was having the time of his life with female fan following as well. However, he said, “I got used to everything. And I felt cheated. I stayed with all these dreams for 10 and 15 years of my life. I was promised happiness and I was promised success, but all these things stayed with me just for a few days. And I am punctuating me because I started from zero money and zero recognition. So I was not happy. How can that be?”

He continued, “I didn’t like this version of success, and the future me again was living the present me. But this I decided...otherwise. I would something else. I would do something else. All these years, I was obsessed with what’s going to happen. I was constantly swinging from past to future, not living in an actual sense. And for the first time, in a long a time, I understood the true meaning of success, which was not money plus recognition but ‘now’ plus excitement. Here I am right now, five years down the line. Money and fame, all this still could not earn back the reputation in my life. But let me assure you one thing. I have much more of them than I had ever planned.”

(Source: Facebook)