Careful on how you speak to
people, the broke and unintelligent guy you hate now might end up being your
hubby or your employer in the future. I know everyone believe in the top dogs
of the department, you see them and believe they have all it takes to make it,
trust me you are missing it all. The society is not always predicted with just
common sense that’s why sociologists are needed to study how it works.
I really love Wole Soyinka even
though I hardly read his works but his educational background inspire a lot
unto me. He wasn’t the best in his days and couldn’t make a 2nd class
upper while some made a first class. But he has made something they can never
make in a thousand life time. He was accepted with open hands at The Havard
University during the Nigerian civil war even with his certificate, I then ask
how many first class students can make that happen?
I then tried to reason it out but
realized that most people with the best grades only perform best as employees
while low graders sometimes end up as being self employed. How is this possible
you might ask, if someone is able to make a 4.8 CGP, before you know it a lot
of people will want him to work for them and most of the graduates seize that
opportunity while the poor students will invest in other things to grow and
then employ the brilliant ones after they boom. Another question is who will
end up been richer?
A typical example is Bill Gates,
he ones said
‘’I failed in all
courses while my friend passed in all, now he is working as my technician’’ he
employs the brilliant ones to work for him. Why should you then let your result
determine your future? Acquiring good grades is just one of a hundred ways to
make it in life and not the only way. One funny thing here is that there seems
to a funny chain, the extremely brilliant ones end being managers, CEOs and
other important posts, the other brilliant ones the take the lesser important
jobs and the non or little educated taking up the unskilled part or the
structure. Guess who will then be at the top of the work chain?
The society gives different number of chances
to people to make a change it now left to you to figure it out and work on
them. Outstanding academic performance is great but it takes more than that to
succeed in life. You might be scared due to your poor performance but the
brilliant ones are also scared of what to do next. In conclusion, this might
not be always true but it has manifested at different levels. Don’t look down
on yourself. A dead society is only one whose members has lost hope. You don’t
need people to believe in you but you just have to believe in yourself.
Just from my own perspective, I
remain my humble self Solomon Omoade.
