Don't Let Your Sacrifices Go In Vein!

Mehedi Hasan
Oct 9, 2022
2 min read

I am writing this blog in bus. Just few minutes back my mom and dad was waving their hand while I was boarding on bus for returning to university after long autumn term break. This has become a very common moment for me from class 7, when I got admitted to cadet college. Now I am a university student and the feeling of this moment has not changed by 9 years. The only difference is I used to cry at that time but now I don't 🙃.

I am thinking of the struggles waiting in university. Staying away from parents, living in a congested room, eating unhygienic food, nonstop class lectures, tiring practical classes, memorizing uncountable number of sheets, writing few hundreds pages of practical note books, sudden quiz, deadlines of submitting assignment and albums, lots of exams, getting less personal time for relaxing and the list goes on with pressure of different other issues of family or university. I need to sacrifice a lot of things and same goes to other students of my university. Some of them can handle those struggles well but few give up being tired of handling too much pressure.

So which thing is necessary for surviving well up to the end? Well, the answer of this question is not fixed because the motivating factor differs person to person.

Some people are motivated by the hope of end success and some are motivated by the fear of failure. But I can share you my perspective which I received from my mom.

Here's the story:

At that time I used to read in cadet college. At the end of one vacation, I was crying before leaving home for around 3 months. That's really hard for a boy of 14 years old My mom was crying too. At that time she told me, "Mehedi, Don’t let your sacrifices go in vein". I still remember that moment. At that time I didn’t realize the depth of the advice but now I do.

No matter whether you take seriously or not, you can't escape the university activities and pressure. You have to stay away from home, eat food of horrible test, listening boring class lectures, do practical classes sacrificing sleep, complete practical note books and assignments, submit albums, memorize sheets and appear in each and every exam. So while you have to these, why not do these things carefully with your highest effort? If you give your highest effort, the result doesn’t matter. It can be good or bad. But you can be proud of yourself without having any guilty. And the good thing is no sincere efforts go unpaid. Today or tomorrow surely you will get it. But if obtain poor result because of your idleness and insincerity, you can't face your conscience no matter how many times you blame university system or other things. You get no value for your sacrifices.

Today by seeing my parent's waving their hand, suddenly that advice of mother came in mind. Then thought to share this with others. May be this advice will be the inspiration for me in many more upcoming struggling days.