Diary of an average author

Just do it

Lets add date and time eh...

It's been... um... almost a month since college started— yes. College, so that people may understand. I'm a bachelors student— and everyday I walk to the campus, I see this girl.

She's a very normal person. Olive skin, normal brown eyes, tall... I guess.

Now you'll ask, "you guess??"

Yes. I guess. Because I've never seen her standing.

And then you'll ask "but you said you walk to college!"

Yes I do. But she doesn't. She's on a wheelchair.

Everyday, I see her on her wheelchair, driving to college at a pace I can't have. She's fast, I'll give that to her. Everyday, I see her, and I want to approach her and talk to her. Once or twice I even did!— approach her, that is. I never could muster up my mind to actually do talk to her. She seemed such a quiet person, pensive and mysterious. And the fact that she's on a wheelchair makes it more intriguing for me.

Today was a very important and motivating seminar at my college.

The first session of ESS (English seminar series). The guest speaker, Dr Yasir— PhD professor from NUST University and a great speaker— was introducing us to the concept of Less is More.

There he was giving example of simple things having more meaning and how poets do it all the time. In his presentation, there was a slide.

"A very simple symbol" he said. "And an equally simple tagline."

But thats not what I'm going to write about  in this entry.

Long story short, the seminar was nice. I liked it and I hope others did too. What was important for me, happened in the end.

Instead of ending his presentation with "less is more" or "keep it simple" or something like that, he said "i have very simple three words to say to you. Just do it."

And that stuck to me.

Just do it... I kept repeating to myself. And on my way back from college, I was still repeating it.

Just do it was the very thought in my head when I saw the wheelchair girl going back, just a few steps ahead of me.

Just do it, I told myself and approached her at last.

Just do it, said my brain when I asked her "excuse me? Can I accompany you?"

And on the twenty minutes walk back to the gates of the PAF base— where my car picks me up and her mother awaits her— we had a very nice conversation.

Her name is Gazelle— as I'll keep her identity hidden.  She's in third semester of Bachelors Education, and she aims to be a professor in the future!

Wow! I thought. Why didn't I meet this girl before? Then myself replied, 'you did, dumbo! You just didn't have enough guts to actually talk to her'.

The girl is a role model. She cant walk, yet she still comes all the way to study. She cant walk, but she aims to be a professor at university or college level. She cant walk, but she doesn't give up.

A living example of just do it. Don't let anything pull you back.

Just do it.

I must say, thank you Dr. Yasir, for saying those three words at the end of your presentation. I'm truly glad I attended the seminar.

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