A person needs to achieve certain goals in
one’s life before you can call them successful. Success is to achieve goals,
you have set. I have set certain goals I would like to achieve in my lifetime.
Some of these goals are personal while others are professional. My professional
goals in life are to find a good job that makes me happy, get a good education,
find a job that makes enough money for me to support my family, and help people
It is very important for me to receive a good
education. Most job fields require a descent education. If I don’t have an
education I would not be able to function properly at the work place and I
would not understand what to do. To maintain a good job that will make good
money will require me to go thorough schooling or training and maybe even both.
Education is the first and foremost way to become successful, because the job I
will choose will need me go to school and maybe even beyond college.
My happiness in what I do is also a goal for
me I my life. There is no way someone can become successful if they are not
happy with what they are doing. If their job is going to make them miserable,
they will never show 100% in their work and they will shake off.
When I was a kid I always wanted
to get into the army and serve my country. I was fascinated with military
training, fighting using fighter jets and all. Later as I grew up I realized
how dangerous it is and if u get in once there is not getting out. I changed my
mind and thought its better if I don’t get into that field. For a while I had
stopped thinking about my future and what I want to do. I was
waiting for the right time and the right opportunity and knew that with time
I'm sure I'll come up with something. I normally don't plan about anything or what should I do and all.
I hate future planning
because most of the time they don't go according to your plan and you get
the disappointing feeling and look on your face.
My mom always wanted me to
be strong and work hard to achieve my dreams. She has given me a lot of courage
and confident to do what every I wish for or feel like, but I was still
confused about what to do.
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1: Fighter Pilot
At the age of 13 I was more
into becoming a pilot in a jet fighter and I was so sure that no matter what I
will not change my decision and I want to make my future out of it. But then
again seeing news on T.V people getting killed and more important the pilot
getting killed made me change my decision once again. I wanted to be on a safer
side and live my life peacefully.
The next thing that got my
attention was cartoons. I was very fond of cartoon, there was no such cartoon
that I miss or never seen if I can understand the language that is. With that I
started sketching cartoon and with time I got better with i.e. i never realized
that I had a talent of drawing in me. But keeping that aside I was still
confused about what to become in future.
Well being a pilot in a
fighter jet dint seem a good idea but I
had the wish of flying a plan, so what is if it's not possible to fly a fighter
jet I still can fly a normal plane like the jumbo jet. I can be the polite in
that and it's not so life threatening as well. So there it is I finally had
decided what I'm going to do in my future and was quiet happy with it.
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2: Jumbo Jet
I was not such a bright
student in school. Most of the time in examination hall I would start drawing
in the question paper rather than answering on my answer sheet. My grads
started to get lower and lower. My parents were called and my teacher would
complain about my marks to them every single time, it was horrible.
Once again I got stuck with
the decision of what I will do in my future because with this behavior and
marks there was no way I'll be able to become a pilot.
With time my drawing,
sketching and painting skills kept improving. After finishing my 10th
standard I had to make a decision about what course ill pickup for my future
and without a doubt I wanted to take fine arts. But just my bad luck, fine arts
is not provided in Kuwait and my parents did not want me to go to some other
country. So I had 2 options Commerce or Science. I have no interest in Science
so I took Commerce.
I suffered the next 2 years
just to somehow pass and clear my school, I hate accounts. After that I focused
more on my drawing skill and tried to improve. I couldn't afford any extra
classes so I tried learning by myself and somehow I'll make my future with it.
But on a positive note if I fail in making a future with my drawing skills I
still got commerce skill, I can get into doing business, account, banking etc.
So I was not afraid.
Drawing on papers started getting boring after
a while. I got my eyes on 3D animation, it's more interesting and I can keep
drawing and make cartoons as well in a better way. So I started practicing how
to use 3D max at home.
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3: 3D character Modeling, Street Cop
After 5 months it was the
time to decide and move on with my life. I made my decision of doing graphic
design with animation. But was scared to turn my hobby into a profession, what
if I get bored or fed-up doing it again and again, it was something I was good
at and I didn't want it to go to waste. So yah, I made my decision to stick
with designing and animation till the end.
My parents wanted me to do
my degree in UK so they started collecting money but then later realized it's
too expensive and they can't afford UK at the moment. They got me admitted in
American University of Kuwait it was expensive as well, but I could work there
abd earn my own fee. But few days later my mom got a call form one of my uncle
saying that ‘’Rehman can do animation in Malaysia its affordable and he will
end up getting a UK degree as well”. So my mom thought then why not we should send him
there and like I said before I don't plan much I just go with the flow.
Now that I’m in Malaysia
first thing i have in my mind is as soon as i get my degree I’ll leave Malaysia
and directly go London to do my masters. As it’s my parent’s dream and wish to
see me there studding, working and settling. I always wished to go there and
study form the best lecturers in the animation business, but if my family can't
afford to send me London then i got to have some other alternative. So i
decided was ill go back to Kuwait after getting my degree and work there for
one year and collect the required amount of money and go there myself with my
hard work. My parents are always there to support me and I’m sure I’ll get to
my destination someday.
I have some other plans as
well like become a drawing teacher in school, helping others and guide them.
Most probably i will be giving classes as well as working.
Apart from this there are also other things
that I would like to do at some point. One of my dreams is to travel around the
world. I have always been curious about other cultures and the differences
between people in other countries. It would be amazing to travel the whole
world. Furthermore I would love to bungee jump or swim with sharks,
experiencing life to the limits.
But have simple interest as
well like painting, graffiti , clay modeling and making comics. Like dancing as well, helps me to be fit n
keep my stamina. I have being performing on stage since the age of 9, done a
lot of dancing style, loved the hip-hop. Done b-boying as well. Thought I'll
continue dancing till the end but unfortunately had to stop because of my
health issues.
I played a lot of chess as well. I had no
interest in chess but it was like I wanted to bunk my classes n just randomly
took part in any activity n got selected for chess. The funny thing was I just
played 1match and won the 1st price
hahaha I know its strange.
Well after that I got
certificate n all I showed my dad , he was shocked and he made me play against
him, I lost. Wanting to defeat my dad I sincerely started playing against other
people and gained interest , but unfortunately I have won only 1time from my
dad till now. ''no probe dad soon I'll again''
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Well the rest are just basic
basketball, football, table tennis, n all other sports
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4: Graffiti
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5: Painting
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6: Clay Modeling
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7: Comic
In the future I may have new
dreams, but the first goal I have to achieve is getting my degree . This is one
of the keys to accomplish my other goals and dreams. After becoming a
professional, I want to start a family, one lovely wife and maybe three
children's and have one beautiful cozy home to raise my kids and grow old with
the people I love the most.
I hope to achieve...
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