A Just start project
“Let’s change our wishes into wills”
Everyone will agree that there are certain things which we’re good at/we like doing them since childhood and after practicing them again and again, we become able to do those things with perfection and if we do not do, we end up having no skills on how to perform that task, make that thing or whatever it may be.
Then, there are somethings which we want to learn but never get the chance to learn them or are afraid to learn them and we start saying oh no I am not good at it, I won’t ever be able to do this and we start finding that as a tough challenge for us and we simply start saying no to every opportunity, to every arousing desire for that thing from within us and hide it within ourselves as a WISH!!! Whenever we see someone else performing the same task, we say, I wish I could that. I wish I had had the opportunity to learn it. I wish I was born with such capabilities to outperform this and etc etc.
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
I’d say stop saying “wish” and start saying “I will try” and “Practice”. There is nothing in this world we cannot achieve.
“Whatever you put your time, talent and energy into is what you get back.”
To achieve something or to learn something, all we have to do is to pay attention to it and give it a try. Whatever thing you want to learn, Just start doing it and it will come to you.
If I talk about my “wishes” which I want to do but were not able to do in past because of whether not having the chance or being afraid, there are a lot of things. I will only talk about one thing which is “Art/sketching/paintings”.
I was good at drawing, when I was a child, I liked my paintings when I was only looking at mine only, whenever I looked at my sister’s drawing , I automatically started hating mine. So, basically my sister was too good at painting that I started having complex about mine and I stopped making any paintings or to draw a simple letter, I just skipped that.
“Always do what you are afraid to do”
So Now, As Amal has Assigned us to work on our goals which we wanted to achieve in life but could not achieve I abruptly had this thought of starting my art again.
Certain Tasks:
It was not easy to start it though, I started doing it by having:
- Strong will power to start it: I, now have this courage that if anyone says a word bad about my paintings or sketching, they are allowed to say that because feedback is always important to become better at something. For me, my first task was to have enough courage to start it, when I made up my mind, I went out to market and bought everything what I needed.
2. I thought to start it by working on my other Amal project where I had to write letters, So I set up my second task to be drafting letters.
They had asked to draft letters with creativity. So, I drafted each letter keeping in my mind the person for whom I was drafting that letter. When drafting letter for my mother, I had this idea to draft it according to that old style of drafting letters, the folded ones and made an envelope to put that in. I did a little hard work in drafting letter for my friend. At the end, I had to draft letter for my sister, She is my elder sister I should have made this draft according to her but I purposely made it like this for my niece :D

3. My 3rd task was the most difficult one, to paint and to make a sketch.
Firstly, I started to think about what to paint. I was too confused and afraid at the same time. I called my friend to help me out as she has also the same interests as mine and she is pretty good at painting. I told her all about this, and she gave me this idea to paint a cell phone cover if I had any(extra) and I had it. I watched a lot of different YouTube videos and took my friend’s help too and after a lot of effort and time, I painted this mobile phone cover.

It had taken a lot of time on making all other things and for each thing I had to watch a tutorial which took extra time but I wanted to complete my mission. I took my friend’s help in making this too, she helped me by sketching at a rough page and I firstly, practiced it and then made up this sketch.

CHALLENGES
The biggest challenge I faced in doing all of this was my time. I had a great difficulty dealing with time and efforts to watch videos and then practicing. It was difficult but interesting work. I am so happy that I made this choice to start working on my passion again, on which I had worked a long time ago.
EXPERIENCE
After working on this, I’ve realized you can achieve anything by just a simple start and having faith in yourself. Just keep faith in yourself and You’ll keep going.
NEXT STEPS
InshaAllah I will keep making sketches and paintings and these art works.
