Taking Flight — An end to a roller coaster ride

Ni Hao Péngyou! Welcome to yet another reflective blog on Amal Journey! The fellowship finally came to an end with our last online session on June 13th, 2020 and with the last PW submission on 19th June, 2020.

Unlike the rest of my blogs, this time around I have decided to be less descriptive with words and more expressive with Gifs!

Though I need to write too coz then I'll score a big fat ZERO, on my blog task, if I keep playing with Gifs to express my feelings and my journey

A rare sight now for the rest of my life! No Pws after this. Phew!!!

So lets answer the first question — “What was it like to just talk and connect?”

When I got to know that I have to switch on my camera and participate and comment on online course and post video on FB group

Me (Felonious Gru) at the start of fellowship with my Lahori batch mates

Me (Felonious Gru) towards the middle of the fellowship with my Lahori batch mates, trying to manage PWs, online course, internship, uni online classes and assignments

My feelings towards the Amal fellows in the beginning

Me, breaking the walls of my comfort zone and interacting with Amal fellows and participating in all possible forms, whether it be commenting, making videos or raising hand and talking in the session

My feelings towards the end, after getting to know the fellows

Me by the end of Fellowship after getting done with loads of online classes, PW's and Mega project

The two sides of me on the last day of the fellowship

So now for the next question — “How do you plan on keeping in touch with your Amal Family going forward?”

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Amal family has played a huge part in making my life a little better and helped me gain a total different perspective to life. Meeting with people from all walks of life carrying with themselves, their own stories of hardships and struggles, yet finally making it or staying on the journey of making it to the peak of accomplishment and success. They helped me learn a lot about not just professionalism but most importantly about life. I loved and will always cherish how our batch 179’s family supported and helped each other out; how we all were a support system to each other, despite the fact that we have never met or interacted beyond the screens.

So, definitely I would love to keep in touch with them and because I am the only Karachiite, so whenever I meet anyone of them, either when I visit Lahore or someone comes to Karachi, ISSA DATE!!

Till we don’t meet, obviously I'll try to stay in touch with them through WhatsApp, Snapchat and LinkedIn

How I felt when I joined Amal

How Amal fellows made me feel — Loved and appreciated!

Last question for the blog! — “How do you intend to use what you learnt in this fellowship in your future life”

Amal journey has taught me a lot. In terms of professional learning it has groomed me a lot. It helped me reflect on myself greatly and helped me improve for better. But apart from professional learning, it has taught me great life lesson. Interactions with fellows, Zaki and Iqra had given me a totally new and refreshing perspective towards life.

One major learning from this fellowship was that no matter how difficult life gets, if you have a good support system and if you believe in yourself, everything turns out well in the end. Also, things may not go as planned. In this journey, we call as life, things are unpredictable. We can plan and try our best to mold the journey our way but we cannot control and decide the exact course of the journey; that where it will take us; where the flow of life will direct us. However, what we can control is how we lived that journey; what frame of mind we had; what we learned from it. Being open, reflective and sort of a mix between realistic and optimistic, helps you learn great lesson on this journey.

In the end, life is for sure hard and differently hard for each individual, therefore do not compare. Rather learn a few things, if you can, and live your own life and live it to the fullest!!