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Title: My First Day At The College

Dreams of the future are always more beautiful and charming than the realities today. As soon as I appeared in the matric examination I started thinking of free, independent and interesting life of the college. My elder brother used to tell me that life in a college is more a fun than a serious effort to get education. A college is a place for making friends and for chalking out program to go to the picture or to picnics. When ever the teachers talk of examinations and tests, strikes are organized. This description of the college life was in sharp contrast to the schools life which had seen or 12 years. So called discipline for the school had bored me and the attitude of teachers in making us to feel that they know everything upon earth had developed a positive hatred for the school life. That is why I was dreaming of the college life.

The first day at the college was considered to be an important one because there used to be ragging in the college. The seniors would make the new corners to indulge in strange actions. So the seniors had worked out their own strategies and we had decided to act together. So as we entered the college we met a few seniors who were approaching us with an air of superiority. They asked us to stop but we paid no attention. They were larger in number so they made us to subdue immediately. Then they asked us to do strange things like singing ridiculous songs and doing monkey pranks. The sense of self-dignity in me did not allow me to act according to their wishes till they forced me to obey their orders. I felt a little humiliated but took it sportingly. Later on we came across a few more groups of the seniors but we were able to outwit them somehow or other.

We went to the lecture room and mistaking it for a school we observed some rules of decorum. As soon as the teacher entered we stood up and greeted him. But we found a strange smile on the face of the teacher and it made us to think that we have not acted properly. The teacher did not teach for some time and indulged in general gossip. It was quite amusing and there was no strain upon our mind. After some time we moved to another room and we waited there for near about 20 minutes but no teacher turned up. In fact it was a problem to know to which room were we to move. There was nobody to guide us and we were terribly afraid of asking the seniors. After the second bell somebody told us that the classes were over.

As soon as I moved out of the room I started thinking that in the colleges perhaps there is no regular teaching work. We also heard some of the seniors saying that their courses have not been finished and they do not know which books were to be studied by them. This made me think that school life was better where we were forced to work. The college seemed to have lost charm which I have been associating with the college life. The very first day of the college was a disappointing day because I did not believe in wasting time unnecessarily.

If had carried a few books with me but could not make use of them. Most of the seniors had neither pen nor paper with them. No one was talking of studies; they were talking of film heroes and seemed to be more interested in fashions than in of them were smoking out their time in the canteen. All this seemed quite odd.

We were supposed to attend only three periods in one period the Teacher gossiped whereas no teacher turned up during the other periods. I felt a bit bored. I felt that life at the college is all play and no work but that is also not good for a healthy outlook. Thus the first day at the college gave me a complete idea of the life over there It is meaningless and uninteresting. At this age if person does not work one is bound to suffer throughout. This was lurking in my mind when I took crowded bus home.

Title: My Favourite Book

Favourite book is the one which is liked the most. Different people have different choice. Some like story books, other like the detective moues and the other like science fiction but I have different mind. I do not have any favourite book of those. I like the Holy Quran the most. It is a heavenly book. The Holy Quran and revealed to the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). It is in Arabic language. The Holy Quran is my favourite book become I get satisfaction. After reciting it. Every morning I lone to recite the Holy Quran. I recite it with its Urdu translation. There is a lot of information in it. Every Muslim has a firm belief in it. It tells as about this life and the life hereafter.

The Holy Quran is a complete code of life. One can find a solution to every problem. It not only deals with the worldly affair but also with affairs of the world hereafter. It gives us a complete guidance. There are clear injunctions about our life in the Holy Quran. Every aspect of our life has been discussed in detail in it. That is why all the Muslims cannot go against its teachings.

The Holy Quran is the book which is the most read book. Usually the book is read only once or twice but the Holy Quran is read over and over. It the only book which a large number of people has learned it by heart. They recite it during their prayers and especially during the month of Ramadhan. It is the only book which is recited without knowing its meanings.

It is the book which gives us guidance about both the worlds. It tells us what reword we can get if me do good deeds and t punishment world be awarded in case of book bad deeds.

We can get physical as will as spiritual guidance from it me not Only live a good life here but also can have better life later.

In short, the Holy Quran is not only for an individual or nation but also for the whole universe. It is for everyone. It is for believers. It can bring revolution in man’s life.

Title: My Best Friend

The world looks gloomy in the absence of a true friend. Man by nature is a social animal. A man who lives alone is either an angel or a beast. Thus, arises the need for a true and honest friend. True friends, no doubt, are rare in this world.

John is my best friend. He has been my class fellow since my early days. He comes of a very good and respectable family. His parents are well-to-do. John always stands first in the class. John is very much interested in games and debates. He is a good speaker and always bags prizes. John is one of the most popular boys in the school. Students like him very much because of his good qualities and sound character.

He possesses all the qualities of head and heart. He has a sweet temperament. He is just like a mirror which reflects the merits and demerits of others. He advises and loves all but hates none. He also shares the joys and sorrows of his friends.

A friends is the elixir of life and panacea for all ills. A friend is very useful at the time of adversity. John really proves the proverb that a friend in need is a friend indeed. But there are friends in this world, who are fair weather friends. When one’s purse jingles with money, they flock, otherwise they run away.

My best friend is the embodiment of all human virtues. He never injures any one’s feelings. He is a calm and quiet boy. He is very sympathetic to the poor, feeds the hungry and nurses the sick. He has a religious bent of mind. All of these noble acts of his make him my true, sincere and best friend. I have learnt a lot from him. For me, he is the sea of knowledge. Service of humanity, devotion to duty, obedience to elders and love for youngers are his great ideals.

As a matter of fact. I am lucky that a person like John is my best friend. For me, he is a source of inspiration and strength. These qualities have tempted me to call him my true friend.

Title: Memories Of Childhood

The memories of childhood have their own significance in one’s life. As one grows up, one feels more and more attached with his childhood, the best period of a man’s life. A child has no worries, anxieties or work. He is free from the dirty and filthy noise of worldly life. His motto of life remains eat, drink and be merry the charm of childhood cannot be forgotten. These memories leave an everlasting impression on one’s life.

Same is the case with me. When I recollect the days of my childhood. I feel very much delighted; it was a pleasant period which I spent in high spirits.

In my childhood. I was carefree, having no worries at all. I used to wander like a deer in the open fields enjoying the natural beauty in the pastures. There are certain incidents which are still fresh in my memory. For instance, at the age of five. I got a severe attack o typhoid. In those days medical science was not so much advanced. In the absence of proper diagnosis, I was reduced to a skeleton. After taking medicine for a sufficiently long period. I was cured. The doctor advised me to go to some hill-station. So, father took me to hill-station.

Once a juggler with two monkeys came to our street. He showed monkey’s tricks which engaged our attention. The he-monkey fell in love with the she-monkey. She monkey refused to marry the he-monkey. The he-monkey went to his father-in-law’s house after wearing colorful dress. These were the pranks which attracted me. I fully appreciated the tricks shown by the juggler.

Another incident which I still remember is swimming experience. It was Sunday when I along with my friends want for picnic to river. Some of us were expert swimmers, but unluckily I did not know how to swim. My friends dived into the river and compelled me also to do the Same. Soon I was caught by the current of water and was carried away swiftly. There was every possibility of my losing life, but due to the valour of one of my friends, I was rescued from the current of water and was brought on the bank, I was really very much grateful to him because he gave me a new life.

The memory of the days spent in my childhood is still haunting my mind. Although I do wish that those days, full of pleasure, may come back; yet I know that it is a thing of the past. Time is always on its wings. I cannot enjoy those days again.

It is this period which has often been praised by poets and writers. Recollecting past is to plunge ourselves in a state of melancholy. Wordsworth, the immortal poet of England and a great worshipper of Nature, describes in his poems, his childhood period which, to .him was full of pleasantries and pleasures, of joy and entertainment.

As I am growing in age, I feel greater attachment and attraction for those days which I had spent in my childhood. I am certain that my desire of enjoying childhood again will never be filled because, gone are the good old days when I was a child.

Title: Joys Of Hostel Life

Home life cultivates emotions of man where as hostel life develops individuality. Mother’s affection, father’s vigilance and brother’s interest may be missing in the hostel but there are many compensatory benefits. I think, without hostel life man is incomplete and he cannot live an independent life successfully till he has lived in a hostel. Hostel life is the most suitable type of life particularly for the students. But everything has its negative aspect and so is the “case with the hostel life. In a hostel a person may while away his time in useless activities and it may not be possible for him to take up the Work so seriously as he may take up at home.

In hostel a person is able to develop independent relations with his roommates and with other students. These relations are based on a feeling of equality which is missing at home. At home a person may talk to his; father only as a son and to his younger brothers only as an elder, in the hostel there is the sense of equality. Consequently one learns the ways of life. One cannot be irritated by others’ remarks and one may not be very liberal with his friends. A relation based upon rationality has to be cultivated.

A person learns to live within means.. While living in the hostel one gets a fixed amount of money every month and he cannot demand more money at any time of the month. At home one can get some money from the father and some from the mother and some from brother and sister. In the hostel one has to be very particular about one’s budget.’ This habit of economy stands in good stead during one’s life.

In hostel one gets every opportunity for studying properly. Uncles and aunts cannot visit you and waste your time. Similarly no time will be wasted in quarelling with brothers and sisters and in doing some of the household jobs. In the hostel a person will be concerned only with one’s studies. More over one can adjust time of study according to one’s liking. One can study through-out the night without disturbing the sleep of the other members of the family. More over one can easily consult class-fellows in the hotel, whereas at home that type of help may not be available.

In the hostel one leads an independent life free from curbs; one is to decide oneself whether he has to do a particular thing or not. There is a possibility that in taking some decisions he may commit a mistake and so he may suffer ultimately. If he takes a wise decision he may be successful in his life. He learns how to come to a definite decision. This type of independent thinking is helpful in many ways.

In hostel one can come across different types of people and those people may make us to know much about life and the way of life. Students with different types of family background live in the hostel and so he comes to know about the different standards of living.

Above all one’s life becomes some what disciplined in a hostel. In some of the hostels every student has to get up at a particular time whereas in other hostels one has to play games in the 1 evening compulsorily. So this makes the life quite regular. Hostel makes us to learn many things about life and its ways and if one takes the hostels life as it should be taken one can develop one‘s personality.

Title: Importance of Trees

Without the plants on our planet the evolution of life here would have been impossible. Plants were instrumental in the supply of oxygen in the atmosphere. Thus the stage was set for Adam and Eve. And now there are about five billion people living on the earth. So we must acknowledge the importance of plants in our life. The trees are an integral species of the plant genus in existence on Mother Earth. The trees have played a very important role in the past and continue to play even now. We are indebted to trees for soil and climate as well as for their direct contribution to our homes to hospitals and to our factories.

It is quite amazing the ways in which trees support life. Fuel wood building materials, and a wide range of food and medicines and other products are obtained from forests. Approximately trees range across 30 per cent of the earth’s surface. They produce and sustain large stocks of biomass and nurture the greatest number of plant and animal species.

Forests also play a significant role in the recycling of nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. They affect climatic conditions such as rainfall and temperature. Moreover, they are the fountain heads of rivers. They play the additional role of the largest gene reservoirs on the planet earth. They are the site for the discuss and development of new species.

Perhaps the greatest gift the forests have given us is wood. It is one of the first raw materials that we used It quite possibly could be our last. Almost every major industry is dependent upon the forest, and its products at one stage or another. A house wall built of wood requires 20 per cent less energy for heating, and 30 per cent less for cooling than a wall of any other construction material. Moreover, wood provides hardboard, plywood, veneer, chipboard, particle board which we use for furnishing our homes and offices.

One of the principal uses of wood is the production of paper. Paper is an indispensable and perhaps also irreplaceable medium of civilization. It is not surprising, therefore, that our annual consumption of industrial Timber is 1.5 billion tons, an amount, which exceeds plastic and steel combined.

Almost, all medicines are herbal in their origin. Without forest and plants, we will be deprived of many things, which come from them.

To conclude trees are the great providers protectors. Their services are many. They help preserve our species in more way than we can imagine. Without forest full of stately trees, our planet would be the poorer and a lot less beautiful than it is today.

Title: My Aim In Life

Aim is very important in life because it brings all our energies to one point. Robert Browning says. “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life.” It provides direction for our attempts. Our aim is want of motive. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. There are as many aims as men. Some want to be doctors, others to be engineers and civil and military officers. Some want to be poets, others to be novelists. Aim that suits the nature of a man is the best for him.

As is the case with others, so with me. I desire to be a professor of English. Teaching is not a playing profession. Professors and Teachers all over the world are low–paid people. The reason is that the world cannot pay for their services. There are several reason for my choice. First, teaching is a noble profession. The best people in the world are those who teach others. To me this profession is the only profession in which a man can serve his nation in the best possible manner Engineers may build grand building metaled roads, massive dams; doctors may treat the patients and may put lite into the dead; civil and military officers may boast of their services to the nation nut die they not what their professors and teachers have made them? A teacher is like a ladder which remains at its place, but helps others to go higher and higher. So, instead of being an engineer, a doctor, or an officer, it is better to be an engineer-maker, a doctor-maker, an officer-maker. It is only the men that glorify a nation, and these men are made in the teaching institutions. Secondly, I am suited to this profession.

I take pleasure in solving problems and explaining them to-others. I am fond of reading and teaching. By adopting this profession I will be able to lead a life of learning. Thirdly, inquisitive natures may ask if I want to be a professor, why a professor of English. The answer is that English literature is my favourite subject. A man can serve his nation well only when he has some interest in the work he is performing.

Realization of such a noble ambition is possible only when a man devotes all his time to studies. Keeping this in view I work-hard and make intensive study of English Literature. In future, I hope to produce such men as would be of great service to the coming generation. By being a professor I can do much for my country in an other way. It is by writing good and original books. Books also have a hand in making or marring a nation. If useless had and objectionable literature is produced the minds of the young men are likely to be spoiled.

Whatever other think of my aim. I am satisfied that this aim is according to my taste and nature. Going against it would result in nothing but harm and confusion of mind.

Other titles of the above Essay :

• My greatest wish
• My future as I would like it to be
• My Life’s dream
• The profession I would like to adopt

Title : Home Sweet Home

East or West, home is the best. It is a famous old saying which is true to the hilt. I rive in a small flat which was built by the N.D.A. My father owns it on hire-purchase basis and pays monthly installments. When the house was allotted, it was only a one-room set. We were not yet born. As the family grew in size, my father added one more room to meet the needs of the children.

It is a compact dwelling, in which we have all the facilities 1 within the four walls. We have combined the bathroom and toilet and created a small kitchen. There are marble chips on the floor. We have covered the drawing–room with wall to wall carpet. The show case in the drawing-room has been tastefully decorated. All the greeting cards have been arranged very well in the center. Whenever we visit some historical place, we bring some moment from there and place it in the show-case. We have arranged the drawing room in such a manner that it can be changed into a guest-room. I have a folding study-table in a corner where I do my home work.

There is a box-type doubled bed in the bed-room. We have filled those boxes with our winter beds. The almirah in the corner, contains all our ward-robes. We have a T.V set in one corner which we view at night. We never miss the news and the Play. We can use it with the help of remote control, sitting in our beds. Although it is a very small flat yet I get all the comforts of life in it.

Other Titles for the Above Essay:

• A Perfect House
• The Home I would Like