Desires
Being kids we desire to achieve a lot and the thought reaches our mind, how about we do it when we have to spare time, when we grow old or are able to do it. These thoughts keep us from learning new things, thus becomes our long desires and then long-lost desires. Things like making money or well settled lifestyle often makes a person lose interest in something his heart and mind yearns for.

So, what are these desires? For a person It could be about being good at any sports, learning calligraphy, calling an old friend to apologize or just asking about their health, anything that has left a mark in their mind that they wanted to do but couldn’t.
Just how many people are there who thinks due to circumstances like studies, goals in life or any other reasons, we choked these desires. Life is so hasty that most of us don’t even remember such desires and even we do remember we mostly think oh, i don’t have time for this or any other excuse. And in light of such excuses we have lost interest in what we really wanted.

A while ago, i joined an institute called Amal academy to be a part of environment that is different from my daily routine study and a part of reasoning was to be more creative in my thinking and bring out that creative me that is lost in deep dark forest of daily routine.
Last week, I was assigned with a task to complete a long-lost desire not thinking whether I can do it or not. So, I embarked on the journey of thinking what is one desire that i want to achieve but haven’t for a long time and the answer came in as Table Tennis.

When I joined Punjab University for a bachelor degree program, I once saw my colleagues playing table tennis and the sound of the ball hitting the racket, then table, then the other player countering magnificently in a fraction of second, for a moment time stopped for me and I was most certainly having my attention towards the ball. That moment I knew I wanted to play this no matter what, I haven’t mentioned before I don’t like many sports like Cricket since I wasn’t good at it but this was different, this wasn’t like the time I was forcing myself to play. My heart and mind must have been in resonance. And the old me was thinking its just hitting the ball how difficult could it be, I went ahead and showed my desire to play. I was given a racket but it was a disaster, I couldn’t do anything. Not having any experience and barely knowing rules I became anxious but this wasn’t what stopped me. I played like once or twice a week with my colleagues since there isn’t anyone at home to play with me. But the fact that many of my colleagues were so good at it and my results from first semester came poor, I thought maybe the time I am utilizing in playing table tennis and not getting better, may be I should use it to work on my studies and thus a full stop appeared. I stopped playing table tennis.
Time went on, I joined Amal academy in the third year of my Bachelor degree program, whose first principle is Amal means JUST START and given the task I thought why not try playing table tennis, when this thought hit my mind, I knew what I had to do.

The next day I asked one of my colleagues from University to again help me out but this time it was different. Different from what I wanted to do before, before this I wanted to learn how to play table tennis and be good at it but now it’s more like I just want to play, the factor being good at it is gone and I am happy about it because the purpose to play a game isn’t because you want to be best at it, is just that you have to have some fun and be satisfied.