Foreword Fervency! That’s what actually happens when you are subjected to very tough and harsh conditions, Fervency! Just like that Shinny Diamond, it was a chunk of charcoal that did well under pressure, the tough and harsh conditions. When you pass through excessively hard challenges, and you have an extreme responsibility to cross them peacefully and successfully, as you have the responsibility to lead a whole student chapter of +150 persons to the infinity and
Muhammad A.Tharwat
beyond, as you promised within your Presidential Elections Speech, you may get
ECHO Chairperson
You have to get up, unleash your potentials, struggle for your dreams, and achieve
Chapter President
frustrated, you may feel defeated, did we really come to an end? No, not this time. your goals. Just reveal your Diamond, just … Quash Your Shackles! Those were the conditions under which our Slogan for the whole season has generated, Quash Your Shackles. They thought that hard conditions may break us, or crush our spirit. Actually, they didn’t know our secret, hard conditions were our Fuel! I have always considered the Volunteering Works a vehicle you mount to accelerate your life experience. It pushes you to face many challenges, and with each one you face, a new lesson is learned. The more severe the challenge you face, the deeper the lesson is instilled. As my journey with SPE Suez University Student Chapter is about to come to an end, let me share and memorize some of the most roughly learned lessons in brief. “It’s not Hard to Make Decisions When You Know What Your Values are” Roy E. Disney A lesson was learned after passing through really hard conditions. Being in charge of several critical decisions required to be determined within short time is severely mind blowing sometimes. Having a clear vision and well set end goals are the key solution! A Means, Not an End While facing the storm of life, being too busy with work, business affairs, collecting money, or even volunteering works, may cost your soul a lot, excessive seeking may be harmful sometimes. The core problem is that we often forget that work, money, studying …etc, are just tools that help us reach our vision. They are just means to reach an end goal. And if you don’t have a clear end goal, you are in a real trouble. It seems that the key solution for most of your problems is having a clearly set end goal for your life. So, by now you have to ask yourself a critical question what is your end goal? If you don’t have an immediate clear answer, you have to rethink of a lot. You have to retrack! By the end of ECHO 11 foreword, don’t ever forget that hard conditions are the way to Fervency. Just continue facing your challenges bravely with a smile.
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