My Campus, My Dream world

         

  My Campus, My Dream world

Basically, a campus means a ground and buildings of a university or college. I still remember the first day I set foot on my campus, the excitement and zeal was in the air. I had to come a long distance to this dream of mine, its every young girl’s dream to achieve admission in a good university soon the campus became my dream world, all my dreams from childhood came rushing back, all those idea’s which I had forgotten about, suddenly, were standing in front of me for too long they had been locked up inside me. Now it was time to realize those dreams to make friends and to convert those ideas into reality. With the passing of time my campus took the shape of my home and my friends became my family standing with me through thick and thin.  Jhondavier says “A man who has no friends is the cannibal of his own heart”. I found the best notch of friends in my life and the time I spent with them It become a beautiful symphony that would always play in my head and remind me of my beautiful dream world. At first I was burdened due to the weight of the studies but I soon realized that it is also the part of the enjoyment because if you study something and at the same time enjoy it, it gets imprinted on your mind never to be removed. I started to realize my potentials on my campus, the hidden talent, about whom no one knew, started to emerge and with their emergence I started to emerge both curricular and extracurricular activities. I never knew I had leadership skills until I became the girls representative of my class, I learned how to argue and explain my points briefly and effectively and to listen to others opinions with an open heart then there is the time which I spent with my friends, a cherished memory never to be forgotten all those things which we did like bunking the class and going to play games all those naughty idea’s about pranks these were the things which made the dull and drab routine of studies somewhat entertaining. The best thing about my campus is that it is a dream world where all my fantasies, thoughts, dreams and idea’s can exist and I can talk about them without hesitation because I know no one would judge me, call me naïve or childish because its these dreams who keep us alive it’s because of them we wake up every day and get ready to go back to our hectic routine and work. It’s because they keep telling us that somewhere someday all these are going to become reality. One can never forget about his/her dreams because dreams are hope cloaked in fear and my dream world my campus allows me to be fearless to speak about my dreams. My campus life is going well. Sometimes, there are some hardships but they too have lesson to teach us because hardships come to strengthen our inner self to make us the person who we were meant to be so in face of hardships, trials and tribulations never said why me? I just take deep breath calm myself down and say “Try me” and with these two words in just about a three fourth of a second everything comes back to normal and I always walk through these hardships and emerge as a stronger person. This is the best thing about this dream world; it has faint glimmers of reality which teach us everything about the professional life but in a very light and beautiful manner. Then there are the extracurricular activities like singing, debates etc, they increase the confidence of a person and lets others judge themselves for their inner self. The best thing is the campus time moving from class to class and meeting. Everyone believe when I say, as a student, during vacations I miss the campus all the activity and all the roaming life in campus, one starts to miss it because a person who is used to a hectic yet an entertaining life can’t live without it , it becomes a part of one’s life an important part. This dream world has also another exciting attraction the teachers, those people who guide us and become friends with us one can openly talk to them and ask them about the professional life and believe they will comfort you. I know like all good things this dream world too has to end, the classroom walls will expand to professional office walls , the classroom floor will turn into office floor, jeans trousers would be replaced by decent suits and as a whole life will change but something will never change the campus. The dream world waiting for some else dreamer like me waiting for him to come and let him realize his inner self and make him what he was destined to become, waiting for him to realize his dormant dreams as for me I still on campus and I would like live my every day in this dream world like it was my last explore all those idea’s which I have and to turn them into reality. My campus is indeed my dream world and I am mature enough to know that dreams are too based on realities and reality itself is the beautiful child of a dream and I would also realize my dreams my cherished goals and I do not care if I lose because I know one thing “Either you win or you learn you never lose” Aldof Hitler, I never loose , I learn from my loss and emerge even better and stronger and I know a person only looses when he quits and I am dreamer and dreamers never quit. This is what my campus, which in reality is my dream world, has thought me and with this knowledge of self I know I am ready for the ruthless and hectic professional life. Dreams are hope and hope is the fuel which motivates a person to be phenomenal and I have realized my dreams and now the hope and love of my dreams have put me into action and action is the distance between me and the realization of my dreams and this action, this hard work makes the realization of dreams even more beautiful. I am just waiting for my time to come and when it comes I will say good bye to my dream world and I will walk the professional lane to the realization of dreams.

By: Dr Tehniyat Ali

Into the unknown | Physiotherapy in Pakistan

            INTO THE UNKNOWN 
Nowadays in Pakistan, being a Physical Therapy student is like walking into the deserts of Mars with no idea of where to go and no idea of how you get there. For universities, it’s a great business because everyone is attracted to the word ‘Doctor’. They give you a degree in five years of tough study schedule, you become a Doctor of Physical Therapy and that’s it. Now another battle begins, finding a job. Let’s say you were very lucky to find a good job. Does your journey end here? If you are wise enough to know the field of Physical Therapy you will realize that your battle is just about to begin, with your patients, colleagues, medical doctors and even with the nurses. If you are still there trying to solve the puzzle, you will figure out that you have just passed a degree with little or no practical knowledge. If a medical doctor needs 1 year of training after MBBS then you need it too. As a matter of fact, your field is more about practical knowledge and less about theoretic knowledge. Your field is a skill and no matter how many times you have studied that sciatica gives pain which radiates down the leg and you have to perform’ SLR’  for differential diagnosis. If you never did it practically on a real patient then believe me when I tell you this, you have failed to become a doctor. Your institute has failed to make you one. Because on that very first day of your appointment, you are about to treat real patients. They came to you with immense pain and believe that physio works better than medicine. They are certain that you will do the magic which drugs can’t. Hold on; can you? They have come to you because you claim to be a doctor, wait; are you? The answers to these questions will rip your heart off, if you really understood my point. Now the blame game starts, my institute is responsible for this, my teachers never taught me this, I was never trained, there is no council and government is not offering any training like it does for MBBS students. To some extent you are right. But where is your part in all that? Have you ever planned to practically study the foot, wrist or even back? Are you planning to go to a hospital’s Physical Therapy department to load yourself with some skills? (But for the sake of learning not certificates) Have you ever thought of getting out of that comfort zone where you do nothing but blame? Have you ever planned that when you get your dream job, you will fight for the rights of this field?
In this era with this degree, you have stepped in to the unknown. So what are your plans?  Do you want to stand there and just watch? Or do you want to take a look around and figure out how you will survive? What footprints you will leave for your juniors?
Here is what I have to say, be the physio you want to learn from, be the person who inspires you, take your sword and fight against your deficiencies, if you are determined enough you will conquer them. Be your teacher, be your mentor, and if you have the courage, be your inspiration. Here you are on your own, be on your own.
ZULEKHA NASAR, IPM&R,KMU,Peshawar.