SLC-S29/W5-“Thinking and Ideas!| Ideas That Failed (and Why)!”
ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللَّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ
Dear friends, I hope you are all doing well. I am also Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah's endless mercy, I am doing very well. Starting today, the contest for the fifth week of Season 29 is about to begin. I am now going to participate in an important contest by my dear sister @ninapenda. Today's theme is 'If I were given authority in my country for one year, what steps would I take.' Let's get started.
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In response to this question, I want to share a plan with you all. The plan that I have cherished in my heart since the time I became aware, right after my birth. This cherished plan has always been envisioned in reality through my dreams. I have tried personally, and sometimes I imagined that the stadium is filled with people all around, watching and enjoying my game.
Yes, I am going to share with you an aspect of the cricket field that I had planned and nurtured in my dreams—this is my plan. Perhaps this dream and plan may not go along with me. But a plan is a plan, no matter whose it is. My awareness started in 2006. From exactly that time, my interest in this game began.
I have never played sports in a stadium, but I did play some sports, though imaginary. However, I had nurtured this plan since childhood. The reason I failed in this plan is that many families in Bangladesh do not provide any support for such sports. My parents never wanted their son to become a player.
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But I had an immense love for cricket, so from a young age, starting at the age of eight, I began watching games, learning the sport, and in our schools and primary schools, I learned to play. I had a great interest in playing cricket. Every moment, at all times, I planned and enhanced my engagement with sports.
People in my area who are older brothers and responsible have often told me that if I agreed, they would take me to the cricket ground. But there’s nothing I can do because fulfilling my parents’ true intentions and their dreams is my responsibility. My father is educated in religious studies. He also wants his child to be like him.
Besides, he didn’t like sports and didn’t prefer going to such large arenas for sports. That’s why his dream was to see his child dream in the same way he did. And this is why I experienced my first failure in life—planning to play cricket and failing in it. Yet, I still love it, even though I failed at it.
The main purpose behind this failure was to be patient with my parents and to fulfill their dreams as my primary responsibility. I believe that no matter how big our hopes and plans are, or no matter what our dreams may be, fulfilling our parents' dreams is our most important duty.
In this world, the only people who love us selflessly are our parents, and they dream a lot for us. And just because I have failed in implementing my plans does not mean that I have suffered for my parents. On the contrary, I still love them; I love cricket, I love cricket passionately,
but I hold no resentment towards my parents because they wanted the best for me. The purpose was that my child should be guided on the right path and educated in religious teachings. Alhamdulillah, having been educated in those religious teachings, I am currently in a job in whatever position I am. That was the purpose.
Every person has plans, hopes, trust, and a mindset that desires someone. When this desire or plan fails, when it is not fulfilled, one feels that they have failed because of it. But some failures, even though they are failures, turn out to be beneficial for us, and we think of them as something good for us. However, the trace of that failure might remain in some corner of the heart.
Let me give a small example. In my childhood, I liked someone, but I knew it was impossible to have them. Still, I loved them, still, I liked them. My mind had many desires, it came up with many plans, but still, I thought I would never get them. Later on, truly, I did not get them, but that pain still remains today, yet the situation I am in now is a beneficial one.
If I had such an opportunity, I would plan differently, and the reason is that I love my parents and would never want to hurt them. When I was a child, I made one of the biggest mistakes, which was that I never turned the things my parents liked into plans. That actually was not right for me; rather, I should have definitely been involved in the plans of the things that the people I love liked, hoped for, and planned.
If I had paid attention to books, studies, and classes from childhood to gain religious education, the result could have been at a much better level in the present. Where I have reached now might be due to my parents and some effort and struggle, but if I had planned from childhood, it would have been much better.
If I get this opportunity, I will have much more interest in studying from an early age and will not understand anything without studying. Of course, I love cricket and enjoy it, but I will play sports for physical fitness and exercise without letting it disrupt my studies.
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Hi @memamun , welcome to thinking and ideas week 5
Most times our parents see what they want for us as the best not minding our choice. Sometimes we just have to play by their rule.