HOW A SIMPLE ERROR IMPROVED ME

It was a privilege growing up in the community where I did, a slum for that matter. I may not have been opportuned to attend an organised Nursery school like many children do these days, yet I embraced my local coaching centre for children where I first had my first shot at education in the late 80s with all my heart.


After my time was due, I proceeded to primary school, my first three years were not as pleasant as the last three as I was always one of the best three students in the class. It was always a fierce competition on who comes first in those days, those rivalry made us put our best foot forward during every terminal examination.

Then after my primary school period elapsed, I proceeded to a college. Because of financial constraints, I had to resume later than my peers who had overfed me with different news of senior students' maltreatment which instilled fear in me even before my resumption.(I am sure you were fed with such news too before you were admitted into high school...lol)

Now to the crux of the matter. In college I was a regular attendee at the school's Christian students' fellowship. On this fateful in my second year, I think I ran home maybe due to hunger or something else, so I was absent only for a friend of mine the son of a teacher who resides in the same community with me who had never been present at the fellowship attended on that day, so on this day, so he got home and saw me and asked

"SEYI, YOU WERE NOT AT THE FELLOWSHIP TODAY", then the poor me shouted and responded too "YES, I DIDN'T CAME"

The young man shouted and laughed at my sincere error and he walked away laughing while I  walked away with my head bowed in shame. But that error was the beginning of my turn around. After that incident, subsequently, before I uttered any word in English while conversing with anybody or participating in a discussion, I took my time to rehearse whatever will proceed out of my buccal cavity.

That experience built me up to be a better person in my spoken English and that has made me to be a better speaker of the English Language and I have also developed to be an event anchor, lecturer and public speaker. A simple error improved me.

                                              (Speaking at an event)

Moral Lessons

• The fact that you made a mistake does not make you a mistake. 
• Learn from your mistake and move on with your life and become a better person.
• Engage in Personal Development.

(Awarded as the Best Lecturer- SOW RCF in 2014)