All my life I have always believed in working hard to achieve anything I desire to possess or own personally. It is for this reason that anything that turns out to negate this norm would make me sick and I entirely cannot live with anyone or any group that cannot help me attain my dreams. There is a time while at school there were posts for any student to run a campaign and get a seat in different positions. The opportunity was as a result of the past student management body being shuffled because of issues that were noted in their administrative activities. I decided that I could take the sectary general post which personally I thought was the primary source of the problems that were being noted in the administration activities by the friendly group.
I actively ran my campaigns, and because the institution encourages democracy the student nominated us and out of my efforts I was lucky to be selected to run alongside one of the famous and wealthy opponents which were a senior student, and I was only a year shy of being a senior student. The saddest thing was that my opponent was using his position to make it difficult for me to run my campaign activities in the school. For instance, there is a time when my team was putting my posters up, and my opponent’s side confronted them destroyed all the posts and claimed to beat them up if they were seen supporting me in any way.
When I heard the news, I was furious that I decided to seek advice from the group of what ways we could employ in launching the revenge. Some thought it would be better if we went out with bats and beat them up but I thought this would destroy my reputation and in turn, I may fail to get the position. I told them I would think about all their suggestions and we would meet the next day and make the final decision. It is this decision to give me some time to brood over the issue that caused me make an unusual step that made me get the post. The group decided to report the wrongdoers to the school management who in turn called them and made the rest of the school know about it. The opponent was ruled out of the campaign for misbehaving during the battles.
I learned that if I had opted for the revenge tactic of resolving the issues, I would not have attained my goal of being the school’s next secretary-general. I also learned that despite the fact that waging war towards my opponents would have given me the fastest satisfaction it would not have helped me in achieving my long-term goal of getting the post. Thirdly, I learned that in life we must take sufficient amount of time to think over all our actions or advice that our friends give us so that we do not make mistakes that would massively cost us. The final goal that we seek in our lives should form the base of all our decisions or even the steps that we take in our lives. Finally, I learned that before making the conclusive decision one must explore all the available options so we can make the best decision in the end.
