Amal Academy: Where fear becomes strength
3 months ago, there was a lockdown due to COVID pandemic and life was boring. I was sitting in my room reading a book and suddenly my phone rang. There was notification that I received a mail. I have always been too lazy to check the mails but that day I do not why I opened the mail at once to check what it was about. When I checked it was from Amal Academy, congratulating me on my selection in Amal Career Prep Fellowship. It was literally like a dream comes true for me as I wanted that career fellowship more than anything else that time. Since I got to know about the Amal Academy I became a fan of it because I found a lot of change in the personality of my friend who told me to join this beautiful family. In short I can not describe my love for Amal Academy because it’s about my feelings and feelings can not be explained in just words.
The last 3 weeks have been phenomenal and amazing for me. I have always hated the educational system of my university which provides students nothing except higher grades. So I wanted this fellowship more than anyone else. In these 3 months I have done everything which I wanted and needed. The most important thing was I did not have friends but this fellowship provided me with a caring family where everyone cares about others, supports others and help others. Even families are not like that in reality because in families brother has become enemy of brother. But in Amal Family no one hates other, they just know to love others. I got so many good friends from this fellowship. This fellowship not only provided me with friends and family but also made me ready for my professional life. It helped me to establish leadership skills, problem solving, team management, critical thinking, personality development etc. These were the things which were the responsibility of University to teach but it did not. So I am very thankful to Amal Academy for providing us such a platform where we can learn the things to become not only successful person in life but also a good human being. It is so because Amal Academy believes in kindness and gratitude. I also want to thank my associate manager and program manager Sir Anas and Ma’am Ayesha respectively. They have helped us, cooperated with us in our difficulties and did not let us to leave this fellowship despite many difficulties and weaknesses. And these two will be the first people whom I will tell after achieving my desired goals.
The most favorite part of this fellowship was a counselling by ma’am Ayesha whom I will be always thankful for. Due to certain problems in my life, I had became pessimistic and I talked about it with ma’am. I told her that it looks like that I will always fail and I will never be successful in fulfilling my dreams. I do not believe anymore in dreams etc. But knowing this she encouraged me a lot. She helped me to believe in myself. She helped me to know myself. She explained to me with examples that how consistent hard work results in success and hard work always pays off. From that day I had started believing in myself. I do not fear anymore from the obstacles in the way of my goals. I now take these difficulties as opportunities to learn new things. The thing which I was lacking from the last 2 years and was trying to adopt but was not successful in that, I adopted in just one day with the help of ma’am Ayesha and that was believing in myself. Finally, now I have a positive mindset and with a positive mindset you can achieve anything in life, no matter how much it is difficult. All of the things from which I used to fear have now become my strengths. I feared failure but now I do not fear failure because it helps you to learn new things. Life is not all about success and failures. It is all about learning new things. And yes, here I will like to share my one of the best quotes which is:
“Hard work beats talent, if talent doesn’t work hard.”
Amal fellowship has truly changed my life. I am thankful to Amal Academy from the bottom of my heart and no one can know how much I love this fellowship. It’s now going to be the end of this beautiful journey of 3 months. I do not know what I will do after this fellowship but I will really really miss it. And at the end I would like to thank once again Amal Academy for providing such a beautiful platform. I am also blessed to have Sir Anas and Ma’am Ayesha as our managers. I am also thankful to all the fellows who have helped me in this fellowship by any means.
“Do not cry because it is over. Smile because it happened.”
