Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog. I have seen people who really enjoy being leaders, but the fact remains that it's not easy to lead. You have people who stand against your opinion and will do everything possible to make you look like a bad leader. I never liked being a leader; I enjoyed my own space, and being a leader would tamper with that, so I tried as much as possible to avoid leadership, but it was more like my destiny.
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Leaders are made, not born; you learn how to lead once the mantle falls on you. I continued to dodge being brought into the limelight until my SS1, when I was elected as a class representative. Leading people requires a lot from an individual, and sometimes it puts you at risk. Classmates are pushing you to tell a teacher his or her time is over; since you are the class representative, it's your duty to make sure a teacher does not overstay his welcome. Sometimes it sounds disrespectful, but you just have to do it to please your followers.
With power, they say, come responsibilities. Sometimes my classmates will be in class learning while I am at the principal's office getting our time books signed. The principal has to make sure teachers come to class, and the only way to do that is to supervise our time book every Friday. I miss classes every Friday, and there's nothing I can do about it.
It was stressful and annoying at first, especially when other classmates tried to put you on the front lines when we landed ourselves in trouble. They made it look like being a class representative gave you more power than that of teachers.
In my SS2, I was appointed assistant senior prefect; here I realized you have to be strong in order to lead. Defaulters are punished either by asking them to clear the field or clean up the school environment. As a prefect, you will be there to supervise and give reports to the discipline master.
The responsibilities of being a prefect started interfering with my studies, and while others are in class learning, we will be on the field with defaulters or in a meeting with teachers. For one reason or another, you just have to miss classes in order to meet the demands of the position you hold.
Once I decided I wouldn't miss class, I left the students to carry out the duty given to them while I attended class. Students will always be students, and as I left for class, the students also left their place of assignment. The discipline master found out the toilet was not cleaned and asked me why. I couldn't say a word in my defense, and I was asked to clean the toilet since I cannot make sure the junior Students do it. I reluctantly did as instructed and made sure the students received equal punishment for such an act.
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