Yes you can!

I have always heard from my parents and teachers that we all have positive and negative attitudes.

A positive attitude can guide us to success, while the negative will force us to join the army of failures.

I have read that if you carry a negative attitude and expect negative results then difficulties will definitely knock at your door at some point or the other..

But I had never experienced the impact of thinking on our behaviour so strongly until I met Sweety and Pinky in my school.

Sweety was always brimming with positive thoughts, while Pinky was always holding on to   negative attitude towards everything.

When our examinations were about to begin, Sweety said, “I will do better this year. I should always try to give my best, there are no reasons that I should fail,” and to my surprise she was a topper in her class.

But Pinky, who had a negative outlook, always would crib, “I can’t do this. I have done very bad last year, I am scared I might fail.” She actually failed.

The same thing happens at times with me. When I want to write some story or study for exams, I think I can’t do it or I can’t write a good story.

But then my parents encourage me with words like, “You can do it,” and then my positive energy boosts up and within a few minutes I come up with a good story.

I realise that to succeed we must inculcate a positive attitude.

Perhaps that’s the reason, someone said, “When you really want something, the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

 (Published in The Gulf Today on May 26, 2012)

Success tip

Recently my father brought a book Pax Indica. The book, written by Shashi Tharoor, is about “India and the world of the 21st century.” The book was also signed by him.

When I asked my father about Tharoor he said that Shashi Tharoor served 29 years with the UN as the under-secretary general.

Currently, he is India’s minister of state for human resource development and member of parliament, besides being a writer and author of repute.

He told me that Shashi Tharoor had written more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles.  But the thing that made me think  was how could a man who had such a busy schedule get time to write all these books and articles?

I searched on the Internet about him and saw an online chat where Shashi Tharoor had shared the mantra of becoming a good writer.

“For any would-be writer, the best prescription is: read a lot and write a lot! It’s the only way to learn the craft - by reading and seeing how others have done it and by trying it yourself the hard way....” he wrote.

He also suggested, “Read what you enjoy reading, write as it comes to you...”

About his writing, he said,”In general I write faster than anyone who writes better, and better than anyone who writes faster....”

I am sure these words would certainly inspire everyone who wants to become a good writer.

I also want to become famous like Shashi Tharoor and make my parents proud.

 I know it is a long way but I am practising from now for that success and I am sure that I will achieve my goal with my hard work.

(Published in The Gulf Today on Nov. 24, 2012) 

Dare to dream

Everyone has an aim and wants to achieve that. Sometimes even our dreams help us in deciding our goals.

TE Lawrence once said, “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

Even I have a dream. My dream is to grow up and become a world-famous doctor. I want to have a big hospital of my own where I can help people by curing them. I also want to help poor people by offering free medical service. Half of the money which I will earn, I will give to charity. I also want to open a medical college, where I can teach young doctors.

Many of my relatives and friends also have dreamt of achieving high in their lives.

One of my cousins wants to become a famous cricketer. Currently, he is a member of his school team.

Whenever there is a cricket match in his school, he returns home with a trophy in his hand. But he wants to be selected in the Indian cricket team as soon as Sachin Tendulkar retires. To reach his goal he practises regularly with his friends.

It is said that a dream is always a dream. It is neither small nor big, neither stupid nor wise, neither impossible nor unachievable. It has its own wings, its own flight and its own sky.

But I am sure that if one makes conscious efforts, he will certainly realise his dream.

Let us all make efforts with a strong determination to fulfil our dreams.


(Published in The Gulf Today on Sept.1, 2012)

Hazards of postponement

In our daily lives, we meet several people. While we love to befriend like-minded people, some people’s habits annoy us. I love to befriend one who does his work in a planned way, while those who have the habit of doing their work at the last moment irritate me.

There is another reason to it. People who do their work in a planned manner are always successful in their lives.

But those who procrastinate may not succeed sometime. I have seen many such people.

I am sharing this today because results of our annual examination are out and it has been indicated in my friends’ report cards.

In fact, on one occasion I got upset because my group lost the first position in a competition due to one of my classmate’s similar habit.

Once there was a Power Point (PPT) Presentation competition in our school.

We were divided into several groups. Girls in my group also discussed the topics and shared the workload. But one of my friends completely forgot about the presentation.

While we kept discussing the preparation during the lunchtime, one of the girls did not show any interest. She kept saying, “I will do it.”

When the day arrived to submit the presentation, she apologised for not completing the task given to her.

We had to submit the presentation without adding her part. Since it was incomplete, we lost the trophy of Best PPT Presentation.

We must realise that this is not a good habit. It may affect our success.

(Published in The Gulf Today on March 24, 2012)

Kid connection

I hate long holidays like summer and winter vacations because they make me bored when I am home alone. I love to be with my friends. In their absence, books become my best friends. I read books by many authors. But my favourite author is Enid Blyton.

For me, another pastime is playing games on my laptop. One day, I realised that we have got so many new technologies like e-mail and Facebook that can be used to bring our friends and relatives closer. So I started sending e-mail and chatting with my friends and relatives.

One of my cousins had told me the same thing. In fact, he also gave me a good idea to use the technology to advance my interest in story writing.

He said, “You can create an account on Facebook and then search for your favourite author and add her to your network of friends. You can also ask her to suggest some topics to write stories, or as you are planning to write a book, she can write a small piece for the book.”

I liked the idea and agreed with him.

When I tried to create an account, I realised that Facebook is not for children. There must be something similar for children too!

Why, don’t you all agree with me?


(Published in The Gulf Today on Jan.14, 2012)

Welcome

Dear friends
Welcome to my blog.
My name is Saamia Mujeeb. I am an Indian, born and brought up in Dubai.
I am a student of The Indian High School, Dubai.
I started writing articles over a few years ago, which were published weekly in The Gulf Today.
I have decided to post the best of them online and keep adding the new ones.
These articles reflect my observations on incidents that take place in our surroundings.
I love to write be it anything. And thus I have also composed poems in English, Hindi and Urdu as well along with my articles.
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Saamia