Reflective Writing: Lessons Learned From A Challenging Life Event

The Event

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According to O’Loughlin & Griffith (2013), reflective writing is a kind of writing which helps a person analyze the past events of life and take lessons from those events so that they can be helpful in the future. Reflective writing does not only mean to put the past events in writing, but reflective writing is lot more meaningful than that. As per Charon & Hermann (2012), writing descriptions about the past events does not fulfill the demand of reflective writing if they are not critically analyzed. Critical analysis of past problems provide clear picture of what is needed to be done in future to avoid those problems. Thus, there is a lot of importance of reflective writing in a person’s life (Kurunsaari, Tynjälä & Piirainen, 2015). The main aim of this report is to create a link between reflective writing and one of my past life events. For this report, I have chosen one of my past life events and have expressed my reflections about that event.

I am going to share one of my most important events of my life. This event has helped me in many ways. I am a student of management. I have completed my Masters in Business Administration (MBA) couple of years ago. However the journey of completing my MBA was not an easy one. I have faced a lot of difficulties at that time from different sides. One of the difficulties was the sanction of my education loan. My family was facing some financial crisis at that time and I had to go for education loan to study MBA. The problem was that the sanction of that loan is a very complicated process. My college referred my name to the bank for my education loan, but still I had to face some major problems at that time. As education loan does not need any guarantee, my father was the second applicant of my loan. Some documents were needed of my father and mine at the time of the sanction of the loan which included the trade license of my father’s business; but due to some reasons, the trade license was not available that time. Thus, as a substitution, we had been asked to provide an income certificate of my father from Sub Division Officer (SDO).

That time was the hardest time of my life. There were many reasons that made me the most frustrated person in the world. The sanction of the loan was not the only problem, there were many incidents were going on in my life. The session was already started and I had to commence my classes. The main problem was with my father’s income certificate from the SDO. It was a lengthy as well as complicated process to obtain the certificate from the SDO. One cannot directly go to the SDO for the certificate. There was a hierarchy. One must obtain an income certificate from the local councilor. After that, that certificate has to present to the chairman of the municipality to get another certificate. Then the certificate from the chairman needs to present to the Chief Officer of the Municipality and after examining that, the Chief Officer issues another certificate. This final certificate needs to be presented to the SDO and after examining that, he will issue the final income certificate. I had to go to various government offices and banks for this purposes. As I stated earlier that my MBA classes were already started, I had to miss a lot of classes to get the income certificate. Eventually, this total process was hampering my study as well. At that time, I went to a lot of people for support and help, but what is get is rejection. That means they refused to help me on that particular problem (Ryan & Ryan, 2013).

The Experience

All those incidents made me very much de-motivated at that time. Doing MBA has been the greatest dream of my life. After completing my graduation, I was very much eager to do the post graduate in business administration. My dream of doing MBA was at stake while I was facing all those difficulties. I did not know exactly what needs to be done to get those problems resolved (Zipf, 2016). I was frustrated as well as tremendously de-motivated. I was facing failure so many times that I have never faced before. I used to think about these matters all time and it made me detached from all my relatives and friends. At one point, I had considered that I would not be able to complete my MBA due to not sanction of my education loan as we did not had the financial power to complete my MBA without the support of anyone. I had tried other ways so that the loan can be sanctioned without the income certificate from the SDO, but all went in vain as there was no replacement and substitute of that document. At that time my father came to the rescue. Then he took all the maters in his hand and resolved all the issues. My father is not a rich man, but what he has is the tremendous will power. He always says me to believe in myself and keep faith on God. He also faced a lot of difficulties, but he never gave up. As a result, he actually did it and obtained the income certificate from the SDO. His never die attitude made the whole thing possible.

Standing today, I can see the clear picture of the past that what I did in the past about that event. This particular event of my life has taught me a lot of lessons. In this section, I am trying to connect my learning with my life.

One of my natures used to be that I gave up easily. Whenever I faced any problem, I got panicked easily before. This is the reason I had to face a lot of difficulties at that moment (Wood, 2013). I needed to think the problem calmly and should arrange the routine accordingly so that I do not have to miss any classes. I could not do it because I was scared of losing my dream and that fear made me frustrated and unorganized. Another aspect was lack of confidence. I have learnt from my father that confidence is a crucial factor in success (Molina, 2013). My father was always confident to resolve that problems, but I was not. This is the reason that I had to face failures in that issue. However, we all know that failure is the key to success. I have learnt a lot from that particular event. It has changed the way I used to look at the world. First of all, I have learnt from my father that confidence and self-believe is an important factor which a person must have to become successful (Choy & Oo, 2012). It is very essential to be calm at the time of any crisis. The situation become nasty if one fails to stay calm at the crisis time. Every problem has a solution and one needs to think calmly to get the solution. This particular problem has taught me to face every problem in life. There will be more problems if someone runs away from the problems instead of facing them.  These lessons have been helping me in every aspect of my life. I have recognized some hindsight while I was in the problem situation. There is always someone to help you or show you the right way to accomplish a job (Moon, 2013). My father is the one.  I should have consulted with him earlier. Then I did not have to face those difficulties. On the other hand, there were some people who could show me the easiest way to solve the issue. Thus, whenever I face any problem, I try to find out the people who can be real help to me. The most important lesson is that every problem has solution as problems are there to be solved. We need to find out the solution of the problems rather being scared of them (Berger, 2016).

Conclusion

Life is all about ups and downs. A life without difficulties is not a life. Even the heartbeat of a person shows ups and downs; the line becomes straight means the death of a person. What I have discussed above, is the toughest phase of my life so far. I have overcome that situation with the help of my father. He is the idol of my life. He has taught me to face every difficulties of my life. I have realized that the greatest reward comes from those jobs which we fear the most. The lessons are not only for the same kind of situation, but I have learnt to apply those lessons in different aspects of the life. Today when I think about that situation, I feel positive that I have learnt a lot from that event. These lessons will help me in the future in different ways. Thus, from the whole essay, it can be concluded that difficulties make a person more perfect and make them the ability to face any situation in life.

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