Written By: Fayyaz Butt
I still remember the day I sat for my Economics paper in the examination hall. It was to be solved within 1 hour and 30 minutes. I felt a wave of panic wash over me as I scanned all seven questions of the paper. None of them seemed familiar, and my mind went blank. There was nothing for me. I thought that I shall never pass this paper.
But then something shifted inside me. I recalled my teacher’s words of encouragement, “”””If anyone understands Economics, it’s you”””””. Those words sparked a sense of determination and focus. I did start writing, opening words of all questions on the answer sheet and left the paper blank for the answers.
Meanwhile, my mind started working and I was writing on the answer sheet. I was writing some words for question number 3 and had the concept / idea of question number 7. I jumped around all seven questions to answers them. One sentence to question number else and the other to question number else. In this way I completed all my answers to the whole paper. Very interestingly last 10 minutes still left. I revised the whole answer sheet and felt it was one of the best papers, I ever attempted.
But what struck me most was the realization that I had been given a rare gift – the last seven minutes of the exam. With my work done, I had the luxury of simply being present in the moment. I was enjoying sitting in the examination hall and watching the environment. In those final seven minutes, I watched my fellow students scrambling to finish their papers. Some of the students could be observed stress etched on their faces. They were rushing to meet deadlines, achieve goals, and fulfill expectations?
Now, I have crossed sixty and my life examination time is going to be ended soon, INSH ALLAH. I wish in last seven minutes of my life ALLAH BLESS ME to enjoy the same sense which I enjoyed in the paper. I pray for all humans that ALLAH BLESS THEM those seven minutes. PAK DESTINY
