Accelerator Contest Week 100: Can You Remember?

I remember back then in secondary school (high school)students most specifically my classmates always took advantage of me because I was quiet and calm, must of them got away with it but two I have remembered was not that lucky.

The first unlucky one was Precious;

On that fateful day in class during break, I was in class seated on my class desk minding my business. Precious a troublesome class mate of mine walked up to me and started raising insult on me for no reason she called me all sorts of names such as: stupid, idiot, poor, selfish, fool and so on, she actually said a lot of abusive words to me which I can't recall, that was a long time ago. I tried all my possible best to avoid her but she still persisted, when I couldn't bear it any longer I angrily carried my iron padlock on top of my desk together with the keys and threw it at her, while she was trying to escaped the iron padlock landed at her back and immediately she started yelling and crying out of her voice. Her tears and excruciating pains made me feel so bad and wicked, I was moved with pity and I regretted what I had done. I walked up to her and I apologized and consoled her for what I did. After a while she stopped crying and accepted my apologies and immediately my conscience was relieved and clear like a brand new day.

The second unlucky bully was Magdalene

On a beautiful morning after morning mass and hostel cleaning, I left for the refectory, the breakfast of that morning was tea and bread. During tea and bread we normally wait outside on a straight line for the refectory perfect to share the meal before going inside the refectory to have our breakfast.

That faithful morning I went to the refectory very early in the and I was the second person on the line. Some minutes later a girl walked towards my direction and tried to confront and overtake me from where I was standing, she stood in front of me and when I tried asking her peacefully to leave she told me that she wouldn't leave that she came before me, but what are said was actually a lie.

My friends who were standing behind me encouraged me to fight for my right because what she did wasn't fair, so when I tried pushing the girl out from the line she turned and pushed me unexpectedly and I fell backward and hit my head very hard on the floor of the refectory. I was in deep pain, my head was aching severely. While I tried to stand up from the ground some of my Classmates who were witnesses began to mock me, they laughed and made fun of me calling me a weakling and other abusive names. Out of my anger, frustration and pains I got up with great rage and pushed her with all my might and she also fell on the floor and when she got up she picked up a fight with me and I beat her up to my satisfaction, I gave her what she deserved, I beat her mercilessly and threw her into different places in the refectory.

I almost beat her to death because of the level of my anger and pains but luckily for her the senior perfects intervene and we were both asked to kneel in the refectory, we knelt there till after refectory and commencement of morning devotion everyone left the refectory for devotion except us and the senior perfects who punished us. While I was kneeling my anger left me and went back to my normal self, it was at that moment that I remembered what I had done and the implications of what I had done in the school. The implications of fighting in my school was expulsion and I had never dreamt of that happening to me before in my life. I was so scared and I trembled, then when I didn't know what to do again I decided to say a little prayer to God in my heart, I told him that if he could save me from the hands of this senior prefect and also shut their mouth from telling the school authorities about us, I promise him that I won't fight again in my life no matter what man may do to me. And God heard me.

Immediately I sighted one of the senior prefect working towards our direction, when she came closer to my heart was beating fast as if it wanted to rip out from my chest, I thinking she is coming to ask us to follow her to the principals office but to my surprise she asked us to get up, when we got up she gaves us our breakfast and we did eat afterwards she released us to go to our classes without even flogging us not to talk of reporting us to the school authorities. Wow I felt so relieved and since then I haven't fought again till today. When I got to the classroom by friends where praising, cheering and applauding me for fighting back and beating her up, I won't lie I felt proud at some point though but within me I knew what I did was not right and God gave me another chance to leave right no matter the pressure and challenges, people stopped bullying me from that day even the girl that I fought with didn't come close to me anymore if I walk on the same path with her she will divert 50 Inches away from me. I believed she also learned her lesson that day not to joke with quiet people.

I can also remember vividly how mum mum flogged me with a bundle of broom severely because I poured kerosine on the floor, I can never forget it because that was the first day my mum layed her hands on me, she is a type of woman that doesn't flog her children and it's only my dad that does the flogging but that fateful day she was so upset and everyone was shocked at home including my dad. I think what she did was the best thing to do because since then I never joked with her kitchen utensils again.

I haven't embarrassed myself before in the public but I have been embarrassed by others several times one of them was when a lecturer asked me to lie down in front of everyone in class because he claimed I mimicked him but sincerely I didn't, I felt so embarrassed that day. I got over the embarrassment by forgiving him for what he did to me.

Looking back on my life, I've had some really positive experiences that have shaped my life today e.g my Educational and social experiences are the foundation of my positive experiences , they help me grow and learn in ways that are still impacting me till now.

Dear Steemians if you have learnt a moral lesson in this past experience of mine let me know in the comments section thank you.

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