THE BITTER TRUTH, hate or love it.
Are you a dupe of the the title? Very bad, you are not to be blamed, routine life was your only problem which you couldn't say no to, perhaps because you dreaded what will be said of you if you had mastered courage to refuse acceptance of that program offered, because your results couldn't fetch the program of your choice.
My dear Primary Six Engineer,my sweet JHS Doctor, my best SHS pilot why are you now drinking some concoction of languages which I fear you might never travel to their spoken countries? Oh you the ten year old Politician, why are you now reading medicine,hearsaies has it that, it is the best program, oh nice but why are you not the best in class, stop agitating? Your Father was a teacher, you grew with the chalk and loved the board,steadily teaching found it way into your heart and you promised Dad, one day I would be like you, so why did you frown at the mention of training college? well don't tell me,I know it, it was because your results could carry you to KNUST and earn the title "tech girl or boy". A title which lasts for four years, or you would be repeating too in the university to hold the title for a decade, NA LIE. So with the help of your high school results you slapped your dream in the face and said NO to your most passionate name prefix (Dr., Hon., Eng., lawyer,..)
Your results had the veto power to change your nationality, I thought you were proud as a Ghanaian, why are you now learning and speaking Chinese, Korean and Swahili in University of Ghana,Legon. Now you are a stammerer and speak with uncertainty, pausing to check whether you are right, sorry you are all wrong and will forever be.
Now school is on long vacation, they are all going for their internships, you are in dispute with Mum for questioning your stay in the house whiles she queues for car every morning with your mates to work, please mum stop it, she weeps inside or she is confused,can't think of any company to fit in with all her gys (anthropology, psychology, doxology, legonology..just saying).
At the workplace, the Polytechnic Engineering student has no special tag to denigrate him from the university guys. Rather he distinguished himself with his practically inclined knowledge of the field. Now, tell me, were you wiser than him to have abandoned non-university education for the luxurious uni life, hell NO, it matters not in life after four years.
So beautiful she walks in uniform of honour and respect, I guess she is now the most happy lady as a teacher or a nurse after following her long wished dream, after she stood against societal requirements and routine life, after she came to realization that peace and happiness are the direct results of feeding the heart desires.
In same view, the university student who also followed his dream and got admitted by his heart felt program rejoices. In fact he walks with the guys, learns with the ladies but his joy and inner peace are a step ahead theirs or frankly is in no comparison to theirs. Yes he is the true definition of a goal getter, studied hard in SHS, chased his dream to the university, he could do the medicines but he said I want to do this. Unlike the coins, he makes no noise when put among the rest, he is the note,more valuable. Very noble in his character, when he meets non-university students, he humbles himself and learns from them whiles he shares with a friendly tone. We can leave the results determinant students to boss themselves around, whom are they deceiving, keep your pains in your chest room, with time we shall see it in your nose windows.
Exams week approaches and students kiss their beds good night for classrooms, what was designed by nature for rest is now the best of time for studies, try as much as they do,success keeps running away from them, why? because the trailing students had no word in their choice of program in the university, their enrollment was solely the works of their results. Tell me how you can define success without your goal.
Please my dear high school leavers, the six killer diseases are not any harmful than routine life. Do not let society dictate to you, just have a very pleasant time doing what you really want to become. After all the roads to a successful life are many for the wannabe. You can indeed be the nurse, doctor, pilot, teacher without your results, is just a matter of showing the red card to routine life and peer pressure. If it comes out that you had grade twenty and so you can't be admitted into the medical school in a university,don't worry much, it is not a whistle to the end line but a prompt to say, take other routes to becoming a doctor.
Thank you.
Written By: Oppong Clifford Benjamin
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