The Real Me

by Daniyal Talat (Pakistan)

I didn't expect to find Pakistan

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After got A grades for five consecutive years in school everyone around me was very happy i am also very happy but still unsatisfied. I was doing great in studies but inside somewhere in my heart i was incomplete. I never want to live this kind of simple life i am brighter than that so one day an unexpected turn happened in my life my cousin planned to travel across Pakistan with his group and he requested me to come with him but my parents never gave me the permission for this because they thought it will surely effect my studies and for kid like me this kind of activity was unhealthy but for me this is the opportunity i didnot want to miss so after few requests and some emotional blackmailing they agreed and i packed my bag and left. I was just in a mood to enjoy few days without my books and wanted to have great deal of fun. When i met new people from different backgrounds from different professions with different ideas and broader ideas it clicked me in a way that i was going no where in my life there is a life beyond my imagination beyond my books. When i heard about my their goals , their ambitions my eyes got opened in a way i that i was just blindly following my parents through out my teens. When i heard their experiences their motivation i felt motivated and the shell which remain unopened through out my life opened and i got interested to many new things like social works, sports and all of the above travelling ,meeting new people and explore the world. With this trip i get to know myself from all those years i was even unknown to myself. After this trip which was seven days long but this trip will remain with me till my last breath. After this trip i enetered into many sports activities won thrice first position in different sports also started working with different organisations like Edhi, School of Inclusion, Pakistan paraclimbing club. I got opened into community works and i got into helping other people. Now at the moment i can only say what i am today was all because of that trip. My communication skills, my confidence level, my life interests and my personality all boost up because of that trip.