We are all having trances to achieve. Every person
longs for growth and personal development for none loves to be algae; it is
great a thing for the waters to flow for it is what everyone adores. It is
another thing when the brooks are stagnant for the fauna and the flora shall
suffer. In life, professionally or in whatever respects that build a human
being, you need to sacrifice to get where you dream to reach. I am not saying
sell out your soul or be a puppet. As much as you sacrifice, don’t be a puppet.
Sacrifice is the only route to total growth. It is
not about what people will say, it is about what you want; it is this path that
you have taken that will make you reach your destination.
I went to the University to do my Degree in Interior
Architecture in which I did not perform well. I don’t like giving reasons BUT I
did not do well, so my sponsorship was terminated. I went back from the capital
city of Botswana, Gaboorone to Maun (my home town). My coming back to Maun
meant I had to sacrifice even my dreams, what I wanted to be changed. I moved
from the University to College where I did my Accounting and Business studies
and later on did my Diploma in Business Management. It was still at this same
college that with my passion for lecturing/teaching, I started lecturing
(volunteering) for a period of two years.
I lectured in the morning and in the evening I went
for my lessons in Management. It was a journey from university to the college
and beyond that I started. I did all my tasks fervently and my students and I managed
to achieve a lot. I did all like I was earning some Pulas. No! I wasn’t, I wanted
to grow, so I had to sacrifice money for professional and personal growth.
It is in this sacrifice that I grew as a
professional. It elevated me to exquisite heights. I learnt how to communicate
and how to tackle certain issues in life and or in the environment that I inhabited.
My confidence in communication and generally I grew to be an orator. I believe
and I know I am a good speaker and that ability to speak and or express myself
is able to give me what I want.
It is all that I learnt in two years, facilitating
to students what they have to do in the market when there they reached, it is
that same thing that I did when I was interviewed for Administration officer
position. I got there and I did what I taught the students in the lecture room
and I did it on my résumé/curriculum vitae and my application letter. It is
that same lecturing experience of volunteering that landed me into this job. It
is still that volunteering that fed me when I wasn’t working when I was
privately tutoring some students. And all those students that I tutored passed
and graduated from my hands. And I felt proud that we achieved.
Sacrifice is an art, learn it and live it. If you
don’t benefit now, then tomorrow you will. Sacrifice is like a prayer for the
future. It is indeed a future prayer.
