Many times, when I'm faced with situations where the best reaction would be rage, anger and impulsively acting, and I do the opposite of these things, I'm not usually surprised. You see, when I was a kid, I was the real definition of stubborn. Anytime I remember how tough I made life for my sister and her friends, I do feel for the past them that had to endure everything I did as an extremely stubborn kid. Then, I tried to hide most of my stubbornness from my mom because most times, she held the key to the ultimate punishment but she always saw through my facade.
When I was in junior school, I was made the class captain of my class in Year 1. Being the class captain, meant that I had the right to write lists of anybody who made noise in class and if you happened to do anything outside the bounds of classroom activities, rest assured I would report you to the class teacher.
So that particular day, I happened to be doing that which I was told to be against. There's this game called FLAMES. If you know it, it is strongly prohibited in schools because it hints at intimacy. I wanted to play it so bad that day, I told everyone to do their things in the class and no one should by any means come near me. Only the two friends I deemed fit. We started the game and the rest of our classmates were happy that I had given them the freedom to do whatsoever because I too wanted to break the rules I was assigned to ensure.
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Everybody began doing their thing but there was one guy. There's always that one guy. This guy was a nerd. He wore glasses. If he didn't have anything to do, why didn't he just sleep or something? Why did he have to come and pick me of all people as the subject of his entertainment that afternoon?
Well, this guy that wore glasses came and did the dumbest thing any guy who's dumb but thinks he's smart would do - snatch the paper from where my hands held it firmly when I noticed he was walking by. My instincts that day, went on full defense mode.
He snatched it, tore part of the paper and before he could even raise the paper to his line of sight, I slapped him. I had no idea how my hands moved so fast neither do I know why my first instinct was to slap him. Well, I slapped him and broke his glasses. I was shocked and my classmates, not understanding the gravity of the situation began hailing me for slapping a student, imprinting my palm on his cheek and breaking his glasses. My teacher punished me for it of course but writing about it now, I would have endured three times, that punishment, instead of what happened the next Monday.
The guy's mother came. She didn't come alone. She came with three uniformed men and she began threatening to take me to a juvenile detention center. I couldn't even explain that it was an instinctive action and the guy was the one that brought himself into what never concerned him. Because I was doing the wrong thing too. The school had to call my parents, who then begged the mother of the boy and offered to pay for his glasses before she decided to let the matter die down. The look my mom gave me that day, was something I'll never forget.
I sweated so much that day. And I vowed to never let my instincts rule again. Because why will I be 13 and be having 'Admitted to detention center for a year' in my bio?!😭
Anyways, this was my one experience as a kid that taught me a life lesson - To work on my reflexes. Were you a stubborn or calm kid? Share with us in the Hive-ghana community. Find more about it here
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There are some people who can just be like that. Making us do something we don't want to or we won't usually do. Its just left for us to act accordingly and not give them to satisfaction of seeing us make a mistake
Acting accordingly almost put me in child prison oo😭😂😂
Why do I wish you were sent to the correctional center? You’d be giving us gist upon gist about what happens there.😂
Ahh no na😭... Go and find another person 😂
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One moment you were hailed for slapping someone, the next you're sweating so much because you're about to be sent to juvenile detention. How quick life changes.
You can imagine! Very unstable something
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