I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. Trust me when I tell you that being stranded is one of the worst feelings on earth. It becomes even worse when you start to panic because once you panic, you can no longer think straight, and getting yourself out of the situation becomes even more difficult at that point since to be able to do something right, you need to be in the right state of mind, which panicking takes out from you. The moment you are stranded and then you make the mistake of giving panicking room, then it is going to take you longer to find your way.
One thing that brings you out of a stranded situation is a clear mind, one that thinks clearly and is not clouded with fear and panicking. I believe that at some point in our lives we have all experienced being stranded, and I think the first experience we all had, we panicked because nobody gets it right the first time. I will never forget the first time on the road, and I missed my way in Ebonyi State. If I had not been pretending to be a man, I would have cried my eyes out that day, but I kept asking questions, and some people gave me the direction I needed to find my way, while some faced me with directions that if I had followed, I would have lost my way even more. One thing that saw me through is my ability to keep asking questions and not rely completely on a single person's direction, things would have gotten worse if I did not keep asking questions.
We have all been stranded, and we had a phone and some money to find our way back, but for this prompt we don't have all of that at our disposal, and we probably have to use a skill to blend in. So if I were stranded with no money, what is that thing I can sell to help me blend in and probably be able to raise money and find my way back home? Trust me, many people might settle for begging and asking for help, as much as that is an option, but I doubt you will get the help you need with that, so first of all, I will start by introducing myself to the people of that land or community.
They get to know me at least and see that I have no bad intentions, and then I will sell to them my marketing skills. Any shop owner that needs a marketer, I will offer myself to them so they can pay me in return for my service. The pay might be small, which brings about multitasking or working for more than one person unless a single person has the financial capability to pay me something that'd be able to catalyze my return home. With my marketing skills, I will automatically become a functional member of that society as well as work towards returning home. I think with marketing skills, it will not take too long to become a functional member of the community.
