CONTEST!!! ( giving back to the community)
Designed by @solomon507
Steemit is all about community and showing love to one another. Recently I have been curating posts and upvoting post that uses reachout as one of its tags. So I thought, what else can I use to help minnow and other Steemians? Then the idea to start this contest came up.
How to participate
Write a short story of between 150 words and above as a comment on this post telling us a story of your life, how you thought you lost it all and it came back good for you. It must be your own story.
Winner
The winner will be decided by the community. The entries with the highest upvote shall be the winner.
Prize
1st prize: 3sbd
2nd prize: 2sbd
3rd prize: 1sbd
Rules to participate.
- Follow @reachout (not compulsory but advisable)
- Upvote this posts (compulsory)
- Retseem (compulsory)
This is to increase visibility and also support the contest respectively. Any entry that does not follow the rules shall be disqualified.
Result
All entries close by 2000hrs GMT+01 on Monday. Result for this contest shall be announced this coming Tuesday by 2200hrs GMT+01.
Thanks to @prettyjules158, @solomon507 for sponsoring this contest.
Thanks to @exturner, @akintunde and @bleepcoin,@papa-pepper and many others who have been supporting @reachout. We love you all.
Life is a tossed coin which can turn either sides, it can be fair or unfair as the case may be.
I want to share a side of the coin in my life's journey as I haven't had it all rosy. Going to school as a child was a bit tough and getting into the higher degree of learning(tertiary) was tougher. It was exactly January in the year 2010 after series of struggle to gain admission to study, I found myself in the University of Jos to run a programme in Science Laboratory Technology and I hadn't funds because it was the most challenging time for my family, my mom was diagnosed of a kidney disease and we visited the hospital quite often, in all I kept high hopes.
We studied all through the semester without paying my tuition and exams were approaching. I got confused and didn't know what to do, nobody to turn to. When it was two days to the exam date, I became more frustrated and helpless because I can't go into the exam hall without a payment receipt. All these while, I got calls from home about mom's health degenerating.
Okay... I couldn't concentrate as no funds for tuition plus another home headache.
Along the line, someone came through for me and stood on my behalf to write the exam when all hopes had gone. It was like a come back for me and much later my mom was resuscitated.😊
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Remember the highest upvote will be the winner.
Nice story
Thank you
Upvote
Quite emotional..
Saludos amigo, muy interesante tu historia
Saludos desde Venezuela
What a good story is
Beautiful story you got there
Entry closes in 11 hours
Life it take what you have to get what you want ... I try all my possible best to survive with all my life i have zero life to live i graduate from one private poly with upper credit in study of computer science but with a good resuit i have no good job to offer my self , i reversed go learn work , cloth desgner from my junior brother in other to use another aspect to survived i spent 2years to learn the job with the two years i spent i try hustle with serving a bricklayer to buy all my working materials with all this i did not have money to do freedom my boss give me 160 thousand for freedom money i have no parent no body to seek help from , please where will i get this money .. But i guess with the help of steemit with the help of upvote my post i believe i will succeeded please help me with any vote power you have i believed it can also help me also i'm new here and i believed with any contest i win i will acived my aim thanks for your support ..i'm very happy to be here thanks
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Nice one
Nice one bro. You've got a hustling spirit. Keep the fire burning
Good luck, all the best to you
Am really short of words, but everyone as a story to tell no matter were they come from but don't ever think of giving up because the motive remains never give up. I know with time you will grow more here and things will fall in place but it aren't easy down here but still never give up my brother.
When I was a teenager, I wanted to be happy and free. I thought my parents were putting to much pressure on me. In my house as a Muslim, the five daily prayers is mandatory. The evening Arabic classes after school cannot be skipped, so I thought my parents are too engulfed with religion and education.
After my secondary school education, I absconded from home, so that I can be free from all the troubles my parent were giving me. I met some guys who put me through how to do online scam, Yahoo like most people call it. I joined their ungodly ways. I forgot how I was brought up and I even forgot about God. To cut a long story short, we were arrested by Sars officers, that was when I had to call my parents. I was released and followed my parents home. I begged for their forgiveness and they accepted me back with joy. I sat for jamb and gained admission into the university. I thank God I'm a graduate today.
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Hi,
My name is Iyiolapo and i've been rhyming since 2007.
I stopped though when everything went sideways for me,first the bad grades and being a very sensitive person words hurt me more than i can really explain and i have a rage that scares even me.
I was in Funaab(Unaab) for a bit i failed cos i was given statistics and not the biology i'd wanted,this combined with a lot of other things killed my spirit to try while i was there so i was told withdraw from the department it bothered me morewhen i couldnt figure out how to tell this at home so i did the only smart thing i could think of,do another exan abd try to get into the school after 2trials i was told i should have seeked advice before doing so as the school data base wouldnt want students with same name in the school....at this point i'd had enough and while i was lost in my head thinking and walking home at the same time i got hit by a car.
When u woke up i was told i had been out for days and they reached my cousin who got hold of my parents.
I told them while i was there in bed and they understood and u promised i'd leave music for good as they pointed to me that it was the main reason i couldnt focus ...trying to balance Music and School.
....there's no happy ending yet as im still breathing so this might still take a while(things are kind of better now)but,I'm working on it.
Brother you got my vote. Keep going foward. Love yourself. Love is the answer to all. @johnskotts
Thanks alot bro
You're strong Otti. Keep firing and you'll surely go way beyond this. Success man
Thanks donnest u sure abeg
I had desire to study Estate Management. When I heard admission list was out, a friend called to inform me that my name is not on the list, I was frustrated because my JAMB was good so also my NECO result.
After two days, another friend of mine called that when will I be coming to collect my admission? I told him I did not get admission of which he told me that he saw my name of the list, it was evening time, I pleaded with him to check again tomorrow and send me the JAMB number their, of which He did the next day and to God be glory I got the admission.
The admission I got was not Estate Management not even in the school of Environmental Technology but in school of Education, they gave me Automobile Education. I was not really happy because that is not the course I wanted. Someone advised me, that I can get a change of course if I was destined for Estate Management.
The change of course is another work on it's own because unless the number of people admitted to the course are less before they will allow vacancy for those who want to change. I applied for the change of course for Automobile Education to Estate Management.
After so much struggle going from place to place I finally got the chance to study Estate Management which I was so happy my dream is coming through. I registered for the course and when back home to prepare for the semester. I was not able to come back to school until after 3 weeks due to financial issue and I also missed matriculation.
When I come back I have to go to Academic office to fill the matriculation form, I did not have much stress their. So everything when on successfully until 400 level second semester we left for Industrial Training (IT).
During IT program I felt sick all through the IT program I was down. First semester began yet to recover, of which I have to apply for deferment. The period has been difficult part of my life. After 4 years of deferment, 4 years behind my colleague, I went back to finish my course of which glory be to God, I got B.Tech, in Estate Management and Valuation. Hopefully I will register for NIESV and establish a firm of my own one day.
This verse keep me going
"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God." ( Psalm 42 : 11 )
Every stories got two (2) sides, I'm here shortly to tell you a nugget about my own story... The lady that we about to get married now.. We met somwhere in Lagos here, we became friends and along the line i felt she's not my type of girl because she's just to quite, she's doesn't mingle in all let me just say socialisation back then was her problem.
So and i use to be the rookie kind of guy, I'm sure from my looks you can tell. Most of my hommies then always advice me that segun you can't date such a girl cos she's going to drop your reputation and give a kind of dulling life which i less expected. As a man you shouldn't let anyone decide how you will live a good life, out of five (5) of us , it was just one who got the eyes that sees not the eyes that looks. he kept on telling me Segun, This babe is actually meant for you..hot and hot can't go together, like poles repels and unlike poles attract, meaning if she is also is living a funky life, there might be issues along the way.
And trust me before then, i had almost wanted to disengage the friendship with her, I looked her and her ways i see she's kind of girl that can add value to me not just being a liability.. I made up my mind i took her on a date where is just table for 2. I ordered for a chilled Chapman cos she's not really the Alcohol type, we sat down at the pavement in just in front of lagoon where we enjoyed the sea breeze.
I asked her out, not knowing she was waiting for me all along to do that, because of the affection we have for each other after a long time of friendship she couldn't turn me down. But she made a statement that she has given herself a time bound that if i didn't do what is right at that very moment by asking her out for a relationship, she would probably move on and accept that maybe i don't like her. but fortunately enough i did the right thing and the right time.
After Three(3) solid year of relationship, I have never for once have a regret of asking her out 3years ago. even those friends who was telling me to let her go are now very happy with me that i made the right choice and that is good to let no man determine your happiness for you in life.
CONCLUSION ; If i had let her go then, i'm sure it will be very difficult for me to find such a perfect woman that will suit me, and also i had listened to some of my friends ideas without rethinking i'd have lost it. but thank God she's here now and she's the best thing that will ever happen to me.....
Thank you for reading through!
@segunreus cares!
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Looking at the topic of this contest, I cannot but remember my experience when I was newly admitted to study philosophy and laugh at myself for what happened to me. I grew up into a man with lots of prospects for the future and it was quite a thing to be admitted to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife to study philosophy. After the normal registration, matriculation and all that we were to go through as freshmen I settled into the life of the school. Lectures went on for sometime and halfway through my very first semester I became frustrated. I went to my department on a faithful morning where I met some of my mates perusing through materials and past questions. I decided to join them in their discussions whether I could gain a thing or two. I got close to them and for close to two hours I was left confused of all that had been discussed there instead of being convinced of anything. I became afraid of what had happened, I felt like a dummy who was capable of knowing just one thing - nothing. Immediately, I left there unhappy and physically and psychologically I was deflated and exhausted from my experience. I went back to my hostel and into my room, I then ate to stupor having negative thoughts about myself. I told myself that I could not cope with school work again. I told myself that if and when I fail and I am being asked by anyone why I failed, then I was prepared to say that the reading of the book was beyond me. I would say I tried my best, but it did not yield the desired result.
That is quite a funny experience though and I am glad I had such a "marvelous" experience. It was not until much later that I found out that I was better than so many persons in my class. I found out that there is nothing they or anyone could know that I am not capable of knowing. I was by far intellectually ahead of them and that got me going to be one of the best students that anyone could boast of. I have a bragging right to say that I was relieved that I got the right mindset that has spurred me on in every endeavour that I find myself in. I just hope this entry is valid and good enough for consumption as a motivation that we should look inwards into ourselves as a means towards ending our problems and anxieties over things.
I would like to ask the organisers of this contest if it is possible that I put this comment of mine as a post in my blog.
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