The mystery of life||the unexpected outcome

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There's something that baffles me so much about this life. That thing that baffles me about life is how life will not give you what you deserve at one point and at some other time or point, you just begin to wonder how you have achieved so much without even working so hard. This to me is the mystery of life itself.

This life we are living in is full of mystery and times when things happen, we may not easily fathom how it happened but one thing I have got to know is that there's also God's factor in everything we do as human as there's a force behind everything that happens to an individual human.

Having talked about the mystery of life and the factor of God in the affairs of man, I would like to delve into the topic proper and build my analysis on what I have just said above. But before doing that, I would like to once again welcome you to my blog.

Seeing the topic of this week's prompt took me down the memory lane of when I was in secondary school.

Back then when I was in secondary school, I would say I was not the best in my class nor the last in the class as well which means, I was just an average student. But even at that, I was always trying my best to be the best, which was not that easy. In those days, part of my effort to make me one of the best, if not the best student in my class was to move with the best of the best in the class, but no matter how I tried this, all was to no avail, just a little improvement was all I achieved.

So, as days went into week and week into months and terms into session, I was promoted to the SS2 class and it's in my SS2 class that I made sure I forced myself to improve on my academics. This I do by reading both day and night, when it's convenient and not, but even at this, nothing really came out of my effort. So, this really got to me and it got to a time that I decided that I would not stress myself that much again and it's that time that I stopped reading so hard.

So, when our second term examination time table was released on the school notice board, I went there to copy the time as usual, but with no zeal to read as before. So, when the examination started properly, I was not really prepared and the only thing I was doing back then was to go to school, write the exam and come back home. Though I was reading, it's not as thorough as before.

Immediately after we finished the second term exam, the teachers started marking the script and one thing about my school was that they will give you your script to vet it before the final recording. It's in that process of script vetting that I got to know that I performed beyond expectation even more than my past performance when I used to read and read with everything within and without me.

So, when all the scripts were returned, one of our teachers, Mrs Dada, called me to the staff room and asked me how I did it. In fact, she was asking me if I have gotten myself into exam malpractices, but I told her no. All of them including the principal of the school were surprised at my performance and this was because they knew what I was capable of academically.

Also, when I got home and told my parents about my performances in all the subjects, they too were astonished, though they didn't really believe me until our vacation day when I took home my report card. It's in the report card that they saw and believed what I told about my performance.

Though, I was the one that sat for the exam and passed it creditably well, but to be serious and be sincere to myself and to all my readers, I too didn't even believe myself nor to talk of the outcome of the examination which was the result that came out with it. The reason for this is that the level of my preparation was very low and not as solid and serious as that of the past ones, which used to be a poor performance. This last performance of mine came with little or no effort but with a better performance.

I was happy with myself and the performance and this brought about a turnaround in my academic life as I was later selected as the senior prefect of my school after the third term exam where I consolidated in my second term performance with the best students performance in almost all the subjects except the Yoruba Language and History.

Also, I was able to reciprocate this best performance in my SSCE exam and got admitted into the university to study my choice course. So, it all seems I was a slow learner. Though it might be so, what still baffles me till today was that my best result came from my most poor preparation towards the examination.

This is my entry to the hivenaija weekly prompt.

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