Sam’s Hangout #91 - “DOING DIFFERENT”
Hello everyone, my beautiful hive naija people, it's another beautiful weekend and we are so happy to have you here once again. It’s another weekend to buzz the hive blockchain even as we connect with ourselves. It’s just feel good to get everyone together every weekend to talk about random things and just have fun.
OBJECTIVE
As we all know, Sam`s Hangout is focused on promoting the togetherness of the Nigeria brethren through engagement and it's also now concerned of the well being of each and everyone who is part of the engagement. This account was opened to make the engagement more personal and official. You can find the INTRODUCTION POST to read more about the purpose and aim of this account and also do well to follow the account so as to know when a post is made.
Weekend engagement every weekend on Hive was originally created by @ galenkp as he founded the Weekend-Engagement community and initiative. I thought it would be nice to have a weekend engagement too in a Nigerian way for everyone that cares to be a part of it.
Moving forward, Aside chatting and gisting here in the comment section, Feel free to post your weekend activities in the Weekend-Experiences Community.
Please do follow the rules of the community! And check the community for the recent topics
The last time, the topic was ”CELEBRATION PLANS"
We had 300+ comments in our last hangout. Everyone came together and shared their interesting and honest opinions about the topic. There were jokes, harmless banter, and valuable lessons. It’s still getting exciting! Let’s see if we can still beat our all time high this weekend again, shall we? 👀. Please let’s try to make sure to encourage every response to the discussion by leaving a comment. It has always been so nice seeing people who dedicate their time to engaging and sharing their thoughts and ideas with us, I want to appreciate you all for the consistency, quality engagement and your efforts, let's keep them coming. Special thanks to everyone who makes this hangout possible.
I will drop a topic every Friday (Today's topic is below), share your thoughts on the matter, reply to someone else opinion, and interrogate the opinion if you like. Keep the discussion on. If you don't have anything to say about the topic. Just reply to someone else's comment. And also tag your friends to join us.
Do all these in the comment section, as that is where it all goes down.
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DOING DIFFERENT
Now to our discussion for this weekend! We will be discussing “DOING DIFFERENT”. Sadly, these days we are often scared of doing things differently than not. We are worried things would go wrong and maybe this different doings will reveal a side of us we don’t want to show the world! But here’s the question!
Our hangout is still in mind and plans are still forming to make it a reality. Check out our last post to stay updated.Here’s a link to the post. Thanks to everyone that has contributed and is contributing towards the success of this hangout. Keep supporting the plans as we are making good progress.
Remember, the aim of the hangout is to bring people together, particularly Nigerians. So make sure you have this in mind when responding to the questions. And feel free to add even more to it if you have more.
If you know you have a topic you would want us to discuss about, please feel free to suggest them to us. All you have to do is suggest the topic in the comment and tag @sam.hangout to it.
Okay Let's Gist!!!
Don't you think we are forgetting somebody?... Well, I'm sure we are...
FRIDAY PLANS, OWANBE SATURDAY, AND SUNDAY REFLECTIONS
On Friday, we talk about our goals for the weekend. Will you be indoor throughout or do you have a date to plan? Owanbe Saturday is a day to share interesting gists about parties. You can also share pictures. On Sunday, we reflect and share our plans for the new week. Let’s see how it goes!
There are no further rules, please banter as you like, speak any Nigerian language (Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin, Efik), anything, as long as someone else can understand.
With all that said, let the discussion begin...
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Hello my people season greetings to you all , please I have January in mind,
okay so for me about been different?...
discover that most Nigerian school only offer theories if I'm to establish schools my school will have all the sections offering real time practical on all subjects taught, so the student get to familiarize themselves with the basic first hand knowledge of what they are been taught ...
This is thoughtful! The only institutions I know that offer more practicals are polytechnics, so surely, we need this expansion. Happy weekend, dear.
yeah basically I mean like our secondary schools,
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This is a good thought but the ministry of education must be aware
This is so thoughtful.
kid learn and inculcate knowledge faster by watching, this ideas would help kids learn with so much ease.
I'm 100% in support of this idea
That's a beautiful one I must say. Most of the things taught in our schools are just theories....
First here y’all 😎
And you didn't tag me, your apprentice. Is that how you use to do?😅
I wanted to take in the moment fess. Should I still tag you?😄
By the way, I come bearing biscuits and caprisone. Ask @van.illa about it.😅
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I hope you brought biscuits along 😅😅
Of course! Do you like caprisone? Cos I brought it too 😄😄
Just maintain your lane o, toor...
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Be like dem send this one with vawulence to me 😄
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Good evening and happy Friday my country people.
Thank God it's Friday 🥰
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The most important thing is, what did you bring come 🫴
Happy Friday, dear. I haven't seen you before in any weekend hangout. Maybe I've been skipping. Nice to meet you.🥰
Yes, it's likely you've been skipping. Thanks, nice to meet you too.
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Good evening Mama....
Happy weekend, guys!🎉
It is true that we bother so much about public opinion when we want to take a decision that doesn't follow the traditional path, but for me, I'm learning to outgrow that, and so far, so good!
So, if I am to make a decision to do differently today, I would go back to school for another professional course in the medical field instead of taking the most common path of heading straight into the labour market to work as a healthcare provider. I say this as someone who has gained clarity on where she wants to be in the next couple of years, with a well laid plan. I do not care about spending another 6 years as a student, and neither do I care about what people would say about going back to school in a country like ours. It's a decision that will set me up for a lifetime and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get there while blocking out the noise.
@treasuree @soma18 @marsdave what would you do differently today?
Not considering public opinion is something I'm also learning to outgrow, it's almost impossible in our society, we are surrounded by imperfect people judging others, even when you are doing what's right , they have what to say about it.
Since they ain't paying my bills, I don't care about their opinion.
Education never ends, last year I would have said the same thing, I just outgrew that thought and decided to obtain a masters degree instead.
Funny enough, a friend of mine posted something in this regard yesterday or so. To paraphrase, he said “When you are going after a goal, don't listen to the people closest to you. Listen to the people closest to our goals.” It's kind of ironic or improper because we're supposed to listen to those closest to us right? Or maybe that's what the system taught us.
Concerning your point on public opinion, it's high time many of us stopped listening to that. Yes, some opinions could be helpful and we need to hear them, but how many are there in the pool of noise and unsolicited, unwanted public opinions? So, when are you planning to go back and do that medical course? Let me know so that I too can follow you and chase that dream too.😁😀
First off, I must say I admire your courage.
A decision like that, especially in a country like ours, omo. You gats really fvkoff what anybody might say or think... because six years may look long, but it's definitely not longer than a lifetime.
It's quite sad that a lot of people fall victim of that. You know, heading into a course because every other being is doing it as well. Simply following the crowd.
I have a friend currently doing that and I don't even have the least idea on how to draw her back and make her see reasons to give this choice of hers a second thought.
You're indeed daring to do something different, the sidetalks and every other factors regardless. Go for it gurllllllllll! 😉
Happy Weekend Everyone 🥰
If you match me enh.....🧐
Happy weekend everyone.
Happy Weekend Beauty 😊
Hello 👋
Happy weekend to you too..how you doing
There's actually something I could have done differently, but then, I choose not to.
And that will be being self-centered and focusing only on myself.
The thing is I once went through a long term illness that kind of made me withdraw, during those period I learnt a while lot of things about humans and all. I also lost myself, yea. There are a lot of things I stopped doing, and a lot of things stop having meaning to me.
So, after surviving such, I could have choose to do my things differently, I can't deny that the illness did affect me an my relationship with people, but I choose not to allow it take over me. If it had, no one would have blamed me. Many people would have thought it was caused by, maybe the trauma and all I experienced.
But I chose not to let that experience stop me from being caring and looking out for others. I try my possible best to show up for people, help when I could and even run certain charity deeds.
So, what I did differently was the refusal to become hardened and bitter. Rather, I choose to be more caring, compassionate and loving.
So, that's doing different for me.
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