Being the class representative is not a child play and the responsibility that comes with is like that that of spider-man
With great power comes great responsibility.
2021 was a great year when I was still the class representative of over 650 students. The job wasn't so easy because I have to manage 650 mature adult student in a higher institutes. I have to report to the lecturers, make sure the students gets their assignment on time, and get things ready before any lectures begins.
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Getting to class first and leaving last was already telling on my health, I wasn't paid for the job because it was a voluntary service to serve for the best interest for the class.
My dad do tell me
If you want to lead you must first serve.
I do want to be a good leader in the future so I brought myself down to serve my fellow student. The reflection I had of myself was like that of a servant because I get talk down by both students and lecturers.
There was a day I was so sick and a lecturer fixed a test on a Saturday, I tried talking to him to make the test the following week but he refused so I had to inform the class of our upcoming test. I got all sort of negative comment like.
- why can't you tell him we had other things to do on Saturday
- I know you like school so much, why don't you write the test for us all
- If you know you can't represent us well, why don't you quit
I guess they were all angry but I was more angry. At that point, I called a friend and told her I would like to quit my role as the class representative because I don't think I can take the insult anymore.
She told me not to because there are people who look up to me and I am the reflection of a leader to them, they might not say a thing but my effort hasn't gone unnoticed. It felt like it was all a joke but the fact is that many of my course mate pictured me as a great leader. It was on our graduation day most of them told me how they felt and how they would miss me.
It been 9 month since we all graduated and I decided to send a check up message to most of them to see how they are doing and the response I got gave me a new picture of myself.
Screenshot from my whatsapp
This is just few of the many that I got. At a point I felt like a father with many children who came with words of appreciation. Now I see myself more than what I saw before, the picture I have about myself now has changed drastically.
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