" JUST BECAUSE MY PATH IS DIFFERENT DOES NOT MEAN I'M LOSE "

hello , my name is sarah afiqah binti mohd shahrin. i lived in kuala lumpur but i was born in selangor as what my ic number said. people called me sarah. people's first impression to me is that i am very selective in making friends, and also my facial expression is quite blurred and somehow it shows that i don't want to be friends with them. but the truth about me is that , i am very talkative and i love to talk and eat. i just don't know how to start the conversation and i will always think that people might not like me or the words that came out of me will be annoying to them . but actually i really loves meeting new people and we talk and laugh and creating new memories together. so whenever you we meet , just say hi and i surely will talk a lot. 

I do have my reasons behind the tittle above. the reason why i chose the title and i'm totally in love with the words is because it is related my story of life. in the first place , the field of counselling has never come across my head. from the age of 13 , i really love science and i also took science stream during spm. during my secondary year, what i really wanted to be was a specialist doctor in cardiology. the reason why i chose to be a doctor is because , i wanted to help people especially people that suffers in pain but have not enough money to pay the expenses and also i wanted to help the old people that is sick but still have to wait long enough for their name to be called.seeing people in pains makes me sad. then, after spm , i chose Unimas because i think that after i finish my study in medicine and want to get my internship , it is hard to get an internship in peninsular because most of people don't want to go to Borneo and i think this will be my advantage . at the same time , i have my intention to help people that lived deep in side the village since at the village they have lack of specialist doctor.

when people asked me do i have a back up plan if i don't have the opportunity to continue my studies in medicine, my answer was no. that shows how eager i am to be a doctor. during the holiday after i ended my asasi, my mother talked a lot with me about my dream job. she did ask  am i strong enough not to give up if the life as a medicine students hit me hard , am i capable to stand up after i fell down several times and am i able to control all the stress and hardship that i will encounter. she did ask me not once , twice but several times. then , i talked to one of her friends which is a counselor which is also tend to enter medicine field at first but he gave up in the middle of the journey and continue studies as a counselor. after several time we talked, it opened my mind to try counselor but at the same time i want to at least continue my studies that has science background. 

After i got the offer letter to continue my study in counselling, my feelings were mixed, sad and happy. a week of class , i did find it somehow i did not really like this course and i want something that have science in it like biotech, zoology and etc.. after attending my lecture with dr. Fa and other lecturers, it somehow opens my heart to love counselling. what makes me love this field is that the words that came out from my lecturer was so motivational .Dr. fa words and the way she talks really made me fall in love with this course. she injected me with motivational words and i said to myself that i want to be like her and i will continue my studies until i got my Phd. my first class with dr. fa is very interesting and i can feel the positive vibes spreading from one person to another and i really excited to enter dr.fa's class. how the title is related to my story is because , counseling is something that i never dream to be and not even plan to do , very different path to which i wanted to be before this but it does mean that i cannot success in this course but i can success and even i am very happy to be in this course and i want to aim as high as 3.8 every semester , end up graduates as first class honor and i want to prove that unplanned dreams is not a barrier to be a successful person but it may be a shortcut to be a successful person. always remember that everything that happens have its own reason. 

-SARAH AFIQAH BINTI MOHD SHAHRIN-

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