The Interested Challenge

Mueed Ur Rehman
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I want to share an experience about this interested challenge but I’m afraid I didn’t do it in the prescribed time constraint because it was done a lot before.
Whoa that felt different, ambiguous but different. So I have a friend back in my university who is actually a senior in Mechanical department. Only thing I could think of while seeing those videos and reading that abstract from the book was him and my last three months I spent with my friend. Thing is, he is a really pessimist fellow and I can’t blame him because of what he’s faced in his life which I won’t disclose here but what I’m trying to say is, he always had doubts about himself, his future, his abilities, his achievements and whatnot. And the day I met him and got to know him a little better, all I saw in him was an urge to just letting it out to someone, to have someone hear him and not judge him.

Relating it to the project under consideration, the guy never stayed friends with anyone longer than two months and the thing I hate the most is people leaving me once I befriend them, I’m a loner (I mean that in a positive way though 😣) but I like to keep my friends around. So clearly I wanted to know what kind of a guy he is and why he does this fighting thing with every person. I started listening to him, asked him about his family, his childhood, failures and hardships he faced in life and what he expected from life in future. I realized that once I did that, he literally burst open about everything, and I mean literally everything. It helped me in overcoming this barrier that he had with everyone else and jumped into his life to make it a little better, to make him feel a little more motivated and optimistic.

I really loved the experiences shared in this small part of this book especially the thanksgiving of Martin Ginsberg. The way they both interacted by showing interest in each other confirming the authors point that it actually is a two way street. But I found the C. M. Knaphle, Jr’s story a little more practical because in real life such incidents are common where people hold grudges against someone without knowing the whole context but when they try to do the right thing, path shows up! Honestly speaking, this reading helped me realize one thing that I doubted for a long time, its true: A smile, A handshake or even the smallest greeting go a long way.

But since I did had to do the project, I did this activity with my family members and friends and the experiences I had were different. I felt more attached to those I talked and the things discussed in the book were actually true and practical at many levels.

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