NEVER GIVE UP!
Aramide Kayode
Providing 12 years of Free Quality Education to Children in Low-Income Communities
Achieving a goal is a wildly exhilarating thing. If you’re flirting with the idea of giving up, you could be throwing away something wonderful―your best future.
Recalling back in high school where Mr Mathematics who had a really scary personality was a nightmare. So much hatred in the hearts of students for this innocent man who committed no offence. "Practice, practice” the Mathematics teacher shouted. I had done everything but how can I practice without interest?! It was a sleepy practice time. Deep inside of me, it was retirement time but it wasn’t retirement age. How sad!
On a fateful Monday, I looked at Mr Mathematics; ugly looking man and with so much accuracy said to him “With all due respect, I am Aramide and I achieve anything I set my mind to do!”. Mr Mathematics laughed so hard and promised me that I would flunk the upcoming test. Practice, practice ringing in my head, I did practice so much but there was so much ignorance in the practice. What would the girl do?!
The test day came, the girl filled with so much ginger and agility entered the test hall but came out rather depressed than excited. But being a girl motivated by failure rather than deceit kept on practicing and faking it until she made it.
“You all performed so poorly in this test”, the Mathematics teacher exclaimed. “YOU, see me after the class!” he shouted as he pointed towards me with a stern look. I silently prayed that the ground would swallow me but the ground was so stubborn.
“I am really impressed by your progress in boxing Mr Mathematics, you topped the class scoring 18/20” the teacher said with a rather sarcastic look than a praising one. My heart practically gave me an encouraging beat and I finally pictured Mr Mathematics defeated.
After, so many years of practice and ‘famzing’, I looked at Mr Mathematics again now, with a friendly look. It’s been four years now in a blissful relationship with Mr Mathematics and we’ve been doing great. He’s now a really cute and good looking man with such dimples that beauty can’t behold.
The highlight is this, the journey may be longer than it seems, and the mountain might be higher than it seems but all you need to know right now is that if you do not confront that mountain, it will crush you out of existence. Be over determined and NEVER, EVER GIVE UP!
If you fall behind, run faster, never give up, never surrender, and be sure to rise up against all odds. Before you give up, think Thomas Edison who tried 1000 TIMES!!!!