{"id":1388,"date":"2020-05-29T01:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T15:23:43","slug":"i-dont-have-time-to-spend-on-some-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavel.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=1388","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t have time to spend on some club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I was always the type who loved to talk\nabout anything and everything. I loved to be on stage and I loved to address\npeople and compere. It was one of my passions and it was one of the few things\nthat made me happy. So, when I joined the University of Colombo, I just looked\npast the Gavel Club because I thought there was not much that I could gain from\nit. After all, there were other more seemingly interesting clubs out there like\nAIESEC, Rotaract or the Media unit. And those are what I joined initially after\nOrientation. With all other activities that were going on in my life at that\nmoment such as my job, professional education, lecturing and other activities\nwhich are too many to mention, I really didn\u2019t give any priority to any clubs\nthat I was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I remember two distinct moments that\ndrew me to this wonderful family known as Gavel. The first was the sense that I\ndidn\u2019t belong anywhere in the University. I felt like an Outcast and so I was\nsearching, more like longing to belong somewhere. No matter how hard I tried, I\nsimply didn\u2019t feel this way in anywhere else in the University. Every lecture,\nevery assignment and every practical felt so mundane and I had enough of that\nin my life. I wanted something more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next instance was when I spoke to my friend Uditha. Back then, I didn\u2019t know he was a big shot in the Gavel community. To me, he was just a friend that I knew since my schooling days and when he invited me to come and check out the Gavel Club, I remember thinking \u201cWhat the hell. I can just give this a shot\u201d. And so, I did. I remember attending the meetings very infrequently in the start. It was because I either had other commitments or I was too bored go thinking \u201cA two-hour session of people just talking after all the studying I did in Uni today? No thank you\u201d. I don\u2019t have time to spend on some club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I persisted with Gavel and to this day, it\u2019s one of the best decisions that I ever made. Because of this, I got to see what Gavel Club truly was. It wasn\u2019t just another company where a group of people come together and do something and then go home. This was so much more; this was what I was longing for. This was where I belonged. I got to know my fellow Gaveliers and I realized that they were all like minded souls who I really connected with. Everyone was friendly with each other and supportive of one another and I too realized that there was a lot for me to learn about public speaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A testament to how strong our bond were the\nonline meetings that we all had during this quarantine period. Most of you guys\nmust know what the ‘plain tea session’ is, thanks to Gavelier Malmi. But did\nyou guys know, even during lockdown, even when none of us had any plain tea\nwith us and were overloaded with lectures and assignments, after every meeting\nthere was always a plain tea session where we would all get together and just\ntalk, laugh and sing for hours. There were times where the plain tea session\nwent on for longer than the actual meeting and this is something that I doubt\ncan be found anywhere else our Uni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end what I said at the beginning\nstill stands true to a certain extent. I have taken more of a liking to the\nother aspects of Uni that I am a part of even though I sometimes don\u2019t have\nmuch time to engage with them. But I will always have time for my family who\nwas there for me through thick and thin. My Gavel family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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