If you lose money you have lost nothing because you can make more tomorrow, if you lose someone you have lost something but small because everybody is going to die someday,but if you lose courage you have lost everything.
I was denied many things when i was very much young because i had lost my courage. My dad died when i was just six years leaving my mother with five children to carter for, with no insurance, no property, no money. I was talked down on a lot I don’t talk much in class or anywhere i was an introvert.
In primary school i was brilliant but not seen because i couldn't express myself, some students got scholarships but I didn’t get any’ not because i was not brilliant but because I could not show it, I Lacked courage.i participated in only one debate throughout my primary and secondary school with shaky voice and shaky legs, i had concluded that success is for some selected few and i didn’t see myself amongst those few selected.
At home my senior brother always tells me that iam dumb even when i had good report cards he still sees me as incapable. Never let anyone talk or look down on you sometimes the greatest cowards are gonna tell you that you are not strong enough to be great, they judge you because you are momentarily weak not knowing that the slowliness of a tiger is not that its afraid but its calculating and perfecting its accuracy. I didn’t get my courage until i was in SS3 my final year.
I had an opportunity which was brought home by my mom.
This opportunity was not for me it was intended for my little sister,a slot to participate in one of the biggest spelling competition in lagos, 🇳🇬. But what disqulified her was her age, my mom had no other option but to give me the slot, as usual everyone thought i was gonna come back the same way i left but they were proven wrong, before then I was already engaged in some books and tapes that helped build my self worth and courage.one of those books is ( YOU CAN WIN) by shiv khera.
What people thought rather impossible was made possible. I won the spelling bee and proved myself strong enough for greatness, you see “ courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”( quoted mark twain).
Ever since i have always been courageous in everything i do, even if the road seems blocked my courage has always paved the way.
I may have lost something called fear but i have found something better called courage.
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