I WAS TREATED UNFAIRLY BUT I MOVED PAST IT…
Life is a journey not a destination.. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON…
If there’s one thing i have learnt from life in the last two decades, it’s the fact that life can be most times unfair to one, but amidst this unfairness comes the understanding and knowledge of how one is to expect everything in life. Sometimes we get treated fairly and the other times we get treated unfairly. The truth is that we learn something from every of this experiences and they have come to become our strength over the years. Now we know what to expect and what not to expect from life…
Unfairness is now a culture people practice everyday and everywhere, the rate of unfairness in my country is almost 100 percent, this is not that is because i know my country and its citizens more than anyone else and i have seen what they are capable of, so unfairness is not a new problem in this part of the world…
There is unfairness everywhere, in schools, in families, in firms, and even in government offices, unfairness is one of the pillars of my country and I strongly believe one day justice will prevail and take over the pillars of our society…
When it comes to unfairness, i have experienced it both in school and in my family, but then what can i do than to accept it and move on like it never happened. I obviously do get hurt and feel bad whenever it happens, but then i move past my pain and act like it never happened. For every unfairness comes a lesson of a lifetime, take it or leave it, that’s just the fact of life…
So without wasting much time on my introduction to this topic, i will be diving right into what i have for you all today on the topic; unfairness. Join me on this awesome journey down the past;
I WAS TREATED UNFAIRLY…
There is nothing like high school memories filled with exclusive moments happiness and joy, a big shout out to my everyone that made my high school life worthwhile, you are all loved, both my good and bad friends 😂…
Traveling way back to the past, this should be around 7-9 years ago, i was still in junior secondary school then, average height and quite stubborn. I have always been one of the most brilliant students in my school and for this reason i was quite a popular student, both for my brilliance and attitude, this made me a threat to my fellow classmates, they saw me as a strong competitor for this reason…
In my school, each teacher has his or her favorite student, one whom they call to help them with anything relating to school activities and the likes, and i on the other hand i was loved by many of these teachers, except for the few who saw me as a show off and an oppressor to other kids…
This happened weeks after the conclusion of our mid-term tests, the end of the term examination was a week away. Something happened in class during our revision week that made me get on the bad side of this particular teacher, according to witnesses I didn’t do anything wrong but because of my attitude that day, he sluggishly let me off the hook, and that was how I ended on his bad sides, little did i know it was going to affect my examination score and my position in class…
Examination started the following week and as usual I studied hard and did my utmost best in each subject, it happened that this particular teacher who sluggishly let me off the hook takes me about 4 different subjects in class, which means out of all the 15 subjects which i offer, he will be marking 4 of them…
The examination was over after a week and decided to stay home for a couple of days, since i am done with my examination and there is nothing more important to do in school other than helping my favorite teachers mark and record scores…
It happened that on this particular I wasn’t present in school for one reason or the other, the teacher that resented me decided to mark his subjects. As he was marking them he called his own favorite students to help him out, unfortunately for me his favorite students and i are the toppers of our class, which means the first 3 positions is always for us to take…
He chose to mark our scripts on that day i was absent, some days later our examination scripts were distributed and i got my script and the score i saw in all my four subjects were the least i have ever scored since my time in junior year…
I wasn’t really happy because i expected to get more than that after all my preparations, little did I know that my fellow toppers were the reason i got that low score and because of the bad blood between i and the teacher, it was easy for him to fail a couple of my answers with the reason i copied from my seat mates…
It was days after the scores had been recorded and the broadsheet had been submitted my closest friend told me the whole truth of the story. According to him, he heard when Temi and jide were telling to his ears how I cheated in all his examinations and how i snuck my book in for two of his examinations, and this became one of the reasons for my failure…
I was pained and frustrated to tears, I didn’t cry at first because i never knew how such low marks would affect my position for that term badly, i got my report card days after and saw the position 3rd, out of the 25 students in my class B. After some minutes I realize temi and jide took the first and second position respectively with just percentage difference of 0.8 and 1 percent respectively…
Tears rolled down my cheeks that day that i left the school premises immediately after i got my card, I couldn’t go home for hours because i was scared to face my mum, i know how my mum would react to this, for an all time 1st position taker like me getting 3rd for the first would mean I didn’t study enough for my exams…
In summary, after lurking around and crying for hours, i ran to my dad at his friends place in tears and told him everything, he patted me and convinced me to go home, i got home and told my mum my result after minutes of shaking…
She looked at me and said how come?, fear gripped me and she then asked me to go drop my card inside and that I should work harder next time, because she always wants me to be the best amongst my peers. I was happy and i went in to eat and that was how it all ended…
In conclusion, The resumption of the next term was a strict attitude towards Temi and jide, i made a promise to myself to never be affected by what they did, after some weeks i grew past my pain and forgave all of them but i never slowed down any more…
I became an eagle and refused to come down, i made sure to surpass them both in atleast 5-7 subjects to maintain my position and that was how everything stuck and worked out…
I moved past my pain by working my ass off the next term, and as a result of this, I restored my lost glory and was the first position once again, but i never liked that teacher again after what he did but I didn’t show it until I graduated junior year…
THANKS FOR READING…
Well done! You learned the more important lesson about the bad experience. Effectively, injustice is everywhere and we have to deal with it. I think you did well. Instead of confronting, it is healthier for ourselves to strive in silence and show that we are better with facts. You’re a good example of that!
Wooooow 😍😍😍, mam, I can’t agree more with what you have contributed to this, i had to work on myself to make sure there is no room for errors again, and at the end what I deserved and worked for was mine, thanks for stopping by mam…
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