Edhi Sb, an Inspiration/Mentor/ Guide to Life
Abdul Sattar Edhi, a name remembered and highly regarded by the people of Pakistan, was an inspiration in itself.His major highlights in the history includes his well paid generosity and observance of the principles of the AMAL, with his innumerable contribution to serving the humanity.The prime principals he grew up with and uprightly followed were AMAL, KHUDI and KAAM, KAAM aur KAAM.He never deviated from the principles that his parents instructed him to follow. Going through his biography,the poor fellow in his childhood wasn’t really up to committing to such tasks but little he knew that his leadership skills and the immense influence of his parents especially his mother’s, marked personality made him conduct the humanitarian tasks that are still marked in the history of Pakistan.His endless efforts in the field made him run from pillar to post.One of the exemplary tasks with regard to the principal of AMAL was one where he tried defending a mentally handicapped person from being bullied.
He told the boys to stop nicely. “This is not the reason you are normal. If you have no good to give him,give him nothing, but do not use God’s favors to you against him who received none”(pg.28)
This incident itself sets an example of “AMAL” and as much as I can relate to the incident it takes me back to the time when my father was on his way back home from the hospital. On a traffic signal he saw a car standing right next to his, carrying a group of young boys,who were trying their best to humiliate a disabled man by their car movements that went backwards and forwards, almost the disabled man rolling on the empty street and crying for help.I learned that if we can’t give anything in return doesn’t really give us the right to injure the pride and self respect of the other person, rich or poor. There was another incident of the same sort where I came across a girl at the examination hall, whose one foot was workable while the other was totally twisted and turned, upon which my inner self told me that people with normal abilities just can’t give up on ourselves. We need to look around and follow such living examples for God has equally bestowed his unlimited bounties on each one of us and we almost take them for granted.
The three tasks I wanted to settle my life with,were to bringing out the creativity in me. I wanted to be a writer but literally failed to be one. With a growing intensity of being a photographer, something nearly went wrong with it too. I tried breaking into my writing skills by writing and searching about topics on the internet. Over time I developed an interest with reading novels and magazines. In addition to that I started writing short stories without realizing the absurd content I was pouring in it.I wasn’t really afraid to put up a task I wanted to do and i wish to do, but the biggest constraints lied with my parents who were majorly concerned about my career. But I was bent upon taking this risk. This is something unusual to say but i’m very much art lover so I love drawing even on a small scale. So I started out a little bit on it too.
Activity: #Just start Project
Considering the notion of my just start project, I came up with several different options which are related to writing, photography and arts. So, I’m going to pick out on writing which I can actually relate to myself and want to develop it as a life long learning activity.
I believe reading and writing has best to give you in life. The more you learn the more you gain.When talking about achieving something out of it, I believe i’m already half way through. Since I have developed an interest in writing from the very beginning with my endless love for books. This phase of my life started out at quite an early age, and I’m very much committed to achieving it. Since an introvert person like me, can actually share all the things by just writing it down and expressing it all, whatever is at the back of my mind.
One can never ignore the bitter challenges it faces in it’s life, especially when it comes to achieving something what you have always wanted to do. So, oddly there were challenges I faced primarily with my writing skills and how to actually go about it. So, for that I underwent research of how famous personalities keep a track of their in build abilities. Much that I learned from it was that they write diary, and it one of the best things to do. So, even I started out with writing diaries and have a bundle of them I started writing them on daily basis,making it a habit to fill a page on daily basis.
The tasks identified were simply to research more on the easier topics from which I could taken an initiative from. Another one to improve my reading habits so for that I searched for different writers and their best novels that they have written so far. Than, off course to boost up the whole thing a little bit, i started to read quotes.
While completing a task, we meet several challenges. As I’ve already mentioned my interests for writing. So, in a urge to accomplish the task, not completely but partially I attended some creative writing courses at a well reputed university of Lahore. So, there I happen to meet the person with the most amazing personality,the very famous actor,Adeel Hashmi who was the instructor of the course. The session itself was quite challenging as there were alot of things that I was not aware of. Writing short stories to creating lively characters wasn’t an easy job. The timings of the class were challenging too as i use to get back home quite late.
As Adeel Hashmi summed it up , basing on his past personal experience that there is a rule to be remembered forwriting and that is “Writing is Re-writing”.For once he told us to write it in bold. So, this experience of actually getting in and experimenting out on the writing phase, was quite alot to learn.
To further proceed with the writing activity, my steps would be to randomly select on topics and try expressing openly for whatever is at the back of my mind.
