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(Sabrina Sarfaraz)

Has it ever happened with you, while working for a challenging project you start pondering whether it

will work or not? What if it doesn’t? If this happens with you often then not to be worried for an

instance, you are not the only one. It will happen with the majority of individuals if examined out of 10.

Certainly, no offense to your ability of handling that project well but to your stress because a stressful

mind brings pessimism along. Instead of focusing on what can go right we emphasis on what can go

wrong. Our mind starts to move the wrong way.

Recently we happened to have elections in our college for the position of Secretary in a society. I was

willing to participate moreover I met all the requirements. But I backed out at the last submission day of

the submissions. The plot twists occurred because of one thing that freaks me out the most

You must be thinking how can pessimism come in my way blocking the way ahead?

It’s because I started thinking what if no one votes for me? What if I don’t win? And if I don’t then is it a

Till the last question I made up my mind to let someone else be at that position. I did not think for once

after that what if I win? It will be a matter of such honor. I will get various new chances of exploring the

best of knowledge and that I will be able to show my leadership skills. All that I realized after I lost such a

good opportunity is that pessimism is like a virus which if attacks, the optimistic thoughts are blocked

making absolutely no way for a person to move forward and loses no chance for him to back out.

It is a perfect black out but it’s not the end if a person realizes he can get up again try to move again and

take a new start. Why not look at things all through a new perspective? The doors of opportunities

never stop opening. If this year I lost my chance then next year I have a better option which requires

more skills for which I can develop myself and I can be far more better than I am right now. Moreover I

wouldn’t be able to run for the higher position if I had luckily got my cake this time. This is how