At this fork in life, I chose --------------, instead of ------------.
Life is all about making choices. Making the right choice at the right time is very important. However, no one knows whether the choice they made was the right one. Nevertheless, living with the choice you made and dealing with it, is more important than being right or wrong.
Since I began my O-levels, I had always heard how “cool” it is to get into LUMS. Independence, away from home, doing whatever you want, enjoying life were just some of the things I had heard from friends that got into LUMS.
In A-levels, my senior LUMS friends would brag about the amazing badminton and tennis courts they have there and how they can go and play there whenever they want, since they knew my school courts were usually closed. Eventually, I got interested in getting admission into LUMS and dreamt of “enjoying” life the way they did.
Working hard to write the perfect essay for their admission form and working harder than ever to get into LUMS, I was still very much surprised when I got my acceptance letter. Jumping with joy and shedding tears of happiness and hugging the letter like it was a child, something dawned upon me: I have to go for Hajj this September. My exciting mood got ruined because I couldn’t possibly miss Hajj for LUMS or can I?
LUMS was a dream that I couldn’t possibly think of letting go this easily, especially when I had worked so hard to fulfill it. But then Hajj was important too. I was stuck somewhere deep in the middle. I didn’t want to make a choice, and I wanted both things. But no one possibly gets everything they want. I didn’t sleep at nights wondering what I should do. My parents were insistent that I go for Hajj with them because it is probably once in a life time opportunity, but then LUMS was also once in a blue moon opportunity.
I didn’t know what to do. I tried using the coin