Never Take Any Opportunity You Get For Granted

Never Take Any Opportunity You Get For Granted

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Childhood is one of the sweetest periods of life. It is one of the stages of life where everything seems to be possible. Our littles hearts at that point were full of hopes and free from worries.

We approach everyday with a joyful and grateful heart. We love our environments and whatever our parents presented to us seem to be just right and perfect.

A lot of times I wish I could go back to those days and be genuinely happy again but wishes are not horses, and the ideal way to progress in life is going forward and not backwards.

As beautiful as my childhood was, there were mistakes I made that if only I could go to the past, they would be the first things I would love to put right before any other thing.

While growing up, at a point in my life, I felt so inferior. I gradually began to feel like I couldn't measure up with others. I doubted myself and being someone who doesn't always want to be publicly embarrassed, I decided to shy away from people and anything that has the potency to expose me to the crowd. I was selected to be the class captain many times but I declined.

I was very brilliant then but I was just scared to exploit what was on my inside. I preferred to write than to speak, my teachers would ask questions that I knew the answer to yet I would keep quiet unless they asked us to write.

A few of them noticed it and forced me to always answer questions in their classes but others didn't.

A point reached where I was supposed to be appointed the school's head boy. My class master kept talking about it and encouraged me to keep up with the excellent performance but just when it was some months to that time, I pressured my parents to change school for me and that was how I lost that privilege.

Years later at the college, my mates and other students in my faculty suggested that I contested for the Student's Union Government president but I declined. They offered to sponsor me and take every responsibility but I rejected. I felt like I was not capable and I was too small until it slipped away.

It is years later that I realized how much I have missed as a result of that nature of mine.

It became a thing of concern for me because I love to mingle with people but I can't. I want to express myself but I can't. It is just like I am in a cage trying to go out but I can't.

I had to start working on it recently and I am glad that I am improving. One lesson my childhood taught me is to always embrace the opportunities presented to us.

It doesn't matter whether we feel we are ready and competent or not. Those opportunities might be privileges given to us to build ourselves and if we refuse to embrace them, we may grow up lacking in those areas.