18/05/2020
I still remember when I was kid, our relatives wouldn’t treat us well because they had all doctors and engineers in their homes and my family didn't have any of these. They would neither visit our house, nor invite us to their events. It started when one of my uncle who was a well established engineer, avoided greeting to my father and 13 year old me was seeing all this. This thing didn't go well with me. I wished I to brake his face. I took it to my heart.
I remember once my teacher said, “The best way to defeat someone is to defeat through your pen, when you defeat someone by your knowledge, you will make his head go down in front of you for forever”. So I promised myself to make my parents proud of me.
My father was a teacher and it was not easy for him to meet expenses of whole family and then of my studies. But he believed in me and tried his best to remove hurdles from my way. I used to travel 5 km on cycle for my school. My ankles often got hurt and bleed. I was not very good in studies, nor prominent in other activities so I didn’t get much of teachers’ attention. I decided to work hard and started studying for 3 hours daily in school and it worked for me. I cleared Matric and FSC with good marks.
I couldn’t clear MDCAT in first attempt so my relatives and other people got chance to gossip about us. One of them even said, “You are not made for MBBS. Stop thinking that you will be a doctor!". Because of pressure of family and taunts of people around, that time was no less than hell for me. I made MBBS a nightmare. So I repeated MDCAT next year, cleared it and got admission in Nishter Medical University, Multan.
Alhamdulillah, now in final year of my MBBS, I have taken my family to the stage that our relatives started communicating with us again. That engineer uncle who once avoided greeting to my father, was then avoided greeted by me. My father scolded me for doing this. I know I was wrong but being a human, it might be easy to forget the wrongs people do to us, but being a son, it is not easy to forget the wrongs people have done to our parents.
My message is, always keep your family your priority in life. With your parents prayers and your hardwork, Allah will bless you with whatever you want.
Mahr Ikram Ullah Sulamani
Final Year MBBS
Nishtar Medical University, Multan
