He came to drop me off and before leaving, he smiled and said, “You surely don’t recognize me. I have been your student.” I also smiled and replied, “I am sorry.” “I didn’t really know,” he laughed.
“You had opened a free coaching center in the city. ‘You used to teach unworthy students all day long.’ Used to run a coaching center with a few of his friends.
We were given a classroom by a private school during the holidays.’We used to put up banners in the city.’Students would come and we would teach them all day.’ ‘Children are always fascinated by stories’ they sat around me all day.
This went on for a few years but then I got shifted to university and that’s how the project ended’ I missed that period’ laughed and asked him “Which session were you in?” he replied with a chuckle. “I only came to your class for three days, but those three days changed my life.”
I started looking at him in surprise, ‘it’s human nature when someone appreciates him, he gets overjoyed.’I also felt my importance and my chest swelled with pride.’ He said, “You told us about Shakespeare and at the end you said the greatest writer in the English language.” He became a great poet and writer.
If you guys learn just one new word a day or remember one English phrase a day, you’ll learn thirty words or phrases a month and 365 a year, so you’ll surpass Shakespeare.” He paused and then laughed. He said, ‘You had the Dawn newspaper in your hand’, you circled its headline and showed the circle and said, ‘You only have to buy one newspaper’ and read it in its entirety.’ Remember them Is ‘You memorize a new phrase every day and keep repeating the previous phrases’ You will become a complete English scholar in a year’.
Your talk touched my heart’ At the end of the class, he took your newspaper home’ He bought a notebook ‘He wrote the difficult words and phrases of the headlines in it and started memorizing them ‘Believe me ten phrases in the night was missed
The next day I repeated the previous phrases and learned ten new phrases. It happened. I now wrote new phrases every day. I memorized them and repeated the old ones. Done’ I came to ten to five and then started learning a phrase a day.
But by that time my language bank had grown, my vocabulary had also grown and I had accumulated two hundred and fifty good phrases. The fellows as well as the teachers were surprised.
This success encouraged me and I went on.” He paused, took a long breath, and then paused, “I realized another fact after a few weeks. Covers the incompetence.
All you have to do is get ten to fifteen good English phrases and your clothes should be nice, expensive and clean, and people will start thinking of you as intelligent, intelligent, practical and even a genius. increased my focus on English’ I used to write new phrases in the notebook everyday and repeat the old ones.
I used to keep this notebook with me all the time ‘The notebook had become a parrot in which my life was’ I kept going but then two new challenges came ‘I was not good at writing and speaking English’ I ke du hal nakhale’ I started practicing by writing down the memorized phrases ‘I used to write English for an hour everyday’ this also improved my handwriting and my hand became fluent.
While in order to speak I started listening to the BBC ‘At that time radio was heard in homes’ I used to listen to the BBC news on the radio every day and remember English words and phrases by hearing them. I later got a little tape recorder from one of my cousins.’I used to record the news and listen to it over and over.’ They would learn English by listening are
I didn’t have enough resources to order a course from England but then Allah did it. My classmate’s elder brother used to study in Lahore. He said that there is a British Council in Lahore and all these courses are there. There were members of the council ‘they used to bring me courses from there and I would learn by listening’ they were very good people’ they later sent me courses from England.
I listened to those courses so much that the cassettes got absorbed and I started speaking English with a British accent. My friends and relatives used to see me speaking English with a British accent and they thought I was crazy. They used to make fun of me. Seeing this, he went into depression and decided to commit suicide.
But then there was a twist ‘I went to your free coaching class again the next holiday’ I met you there and I thought you were crazier than I was ‘Your hair’ beard and nails were growing ‘Teeth too’ The clothes were dirty and I was scared to see you.
He stopped and laughed and said “I asked you the reason and you said “I am preparing for papers today” I don’t have time to cut my hair and change my clothes” I asked you “Do you guys Not influenced by words,’ you replied with a laugh, ‘My brother, man does not progress until he is considered mad,’ I did not understand what you were saying.
You explained ‘When a man wants to achieve something in life, he has to go to that extreme where people start to think he is crazy’ He gets success at that point’ You said I will change my clothes tomorrow’ Shiva I’ll do it,” I’ll cut my hair and nails, but if I miss the exam, I might not get it again, so I’m focusing on it. Yab I will be
So this madness of mine will become an example to people ‘People will tell their children my story so we should focus on work instead of paying attention to other people’s opinion’ I got another prescription too so I came back And back to work I started practicing both writing and speaking.
He paused, took a deep breath and this time there were tears in his eyes, he said, “Sir, believe me, throughout school and then in college, there was no one who could speak, write, and read English better than me.” One more thing to learn ‘If a man gets mastery in one thing, all other arts will follow him’ My English helped me in all other subjects too and then I kept on topping till I did my MBA’ out on a scholarship “Goed” worked in multinational companies “came to Pakistan” started my work and today by the grace of Allah I am in front of you.
I was shocked by his story’ I was surprised and remembered the proverb I had read in my childhood in which the narrator said, “Man does not need long philosophy and wisdom.” The phrase changes entire generations.
A few friends of ours started a free coaching center as a profession in our youth. We used to gather school children and teach them for free for two months during the holidays. Gee, I was proud at first and then ashamed and asked myself why I had closed such a big ani-shito ahead of me. “How foolish I am,” I took his hand, “bent down to kiss it, and looking at him with wet eyes, said, “You are my benefactor.” In the race for employment, I forgot ‘You are great’.
