[WE-99] REACHING YOUR NEXT FEET WITH A HELPING PARTNER

It's weekend engagement again and I say hello to everyone. I would like to thank @galenkp for the amazing work so far with putting out such great topics to talk about again.

So here is my prompt pick...

Helping others achieve

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As I flashed back through my memory during my undergraduate years, a couple of things I have done to help other people pumped through my mind. But I found this one to be intriguing.

But first, meet my very good friend Eniola.

Eniola was my close pal in school. Very close that we do almost everything together all the time. And since we were course mates in the same level, seeing the two of us together was not something that seems difficult. The closeness even triggered observation from other colleagues that we were dating each other. It's always easy to judge in that manner when you notice some sort of closeness between guys of opposite sex.

Well, it's nobody's fault to think like that anyway. I feel its the way the human brain is wired. But in the real sense of it, we were just good friends that care about each other. I guess our closeness was probably because we met each other at the early days of our first resumption in school as a fresher during year one. And that was how it started because we did so much things together that I can't even recall many.

We both help each other in various aspects as good friends which was fine. One of those things I remember was during our final year days in school. You know the kinda stress that comes with several tasks and activities you had to do as a final year student.

One of those things is compilation of your final year project. It is one big task that is an obligation to do. And with the kind of program I studied (biochemistry), the nature of our work makes it even look more difficult than other students' project work in school. This help I rendered to her made me really fulfilled because I came in the scene and saved my friend from being deceived by a fraudster claiming to help her ease her work.

Here Is What Happened

Due to lots of stress that comes with doing your final year project, things like your seminar, write up, bench work, collating results, etc. Students prefer to source out the work to people who are willing to help do the work and just pay them for it. That way your money is working for you which is fine.

Because of the high expectations from her project supervisor, Eniola also went through this route of sourcing out her write up work and came back to relax just like everyone else who did. Although I was aware about this move from start and I wasn't against it since it will ease her alot of stress and the money involved is not something huge.

But unfortunately, things did not work out as expected. As the submission deadline approach people were carrying their work all about to see possible things to correct, add, substrate, rearrange, etc. on their work. But my friend's work is nowhere to be found.

Having a very strict supervisor so to speak, she panicked so much and was greatly frightened. The vendor doing her job has been requesting for more money and he couldn't do anything because of his lack of funds. He has already received 30% of his total pay. The money is no more and work has not even started at all.

As if that was not enough. He also took advantage of asking her out to be in a relationship with him just because she came to him for help (which was not even free of charge).

At this point, she was so destabilized and very confused of what next to do. It was then she related the issue to me. It was a great challenge because I was equally busy with doing my own work too. Same as everyone else. Submission deadline was in two weeks time as at then. Everybody is close to finishing as work commenced 2 months earlier. And here is two weeks remaining with no single word yet on paper.

To be honest, I also do not know what to do to help the situation. But I told her something. Just a word of encouragement. Little did I know that it will be a very powerful word that will rescue her from her situation. I could still vividly remember that sentence like it were happening now. Here is what I said;

Eniola! You have a phone, you have a laptop, and you have a functioning brain with a working internet. Forget about this guy and do your work by yourself.

She panicked and complain she doesn't know how to get started just because there is limited time left. I didn't say much again. I just told her to get to work and start doing it anyhow she feels.

Surprisingly, she called me 6 days later that she is now in chapter 3 of her work out of the whole 5 chapters she was meant to write and is even almost done with the current chapter. Very happy to tell me the news, I could see the excitement and I was equally glad that I pushed her to this length.

Even though she has lost some penny to the scammer guy. It was not an issue because two significant things happened.

i.) she learnt a new thing by knowing how to compile a project work by herself using all the necessary tools

ii.) she could easily defend every part of her work because she did it by herself

Here was the picture I took together with her hanging her laptop bag on her shoulder on the submission day. I could remember it was a raining day and the excitement was much.

Sometimes, it might just be a little push that we need to attain our next feet. And if we don't gather good people around us, it might be difficult to achieve that feet.

Thanks for reading to the end.

_{All pictures taken from Eniola's iPhone xsmas}