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Speaking My Truth
People have got different beliefs about various life aspects that form the basis on how they live and undertake their duties. Since my Childhood, I have believed in hard work as the way to succeed in life. Everybody from my parents, teachers urged me to work hard and will get the benefits in future. I took the issue in earnest and started working hard while at school, home and in community activities. For real during those days hard work used to pay for everything that I did. In my class, I always used to top, and that was attributed to the efforts I put in my studies. Despite that, there were challenges and peer pressure against my belief. I worked towards having good morals, and that helped me to be selected as the student leader and youth community leader.
Back at home, I was my Mom’s favorite, and she could always scold off my brothers and ask them to emulate my traits. All this time I did not realize the kind of envy I was attracting. My brothers kept a lot of secrets away from me since I shared a lot with my parents as opposed to them. As the life events have shaped me, I feel the hard work was working against me. Apparently, it helped me to accomplish many life missions such as getting special presents and holiday trips from my parents. Nevertheless, the belief prevented me from knowing other life tricks of getting your way without necessarily having to work. All I did was to wake up early in the morning before anybody else go to study room and concentrate on my studies hoping that it was to pay awesomely later in life.
As mentioned before at school I was selected as one of the student leaders. Ostensibly, it's a prestigious thing to be selected as a student leader. However, the selection comes with consequences such as suspicion from other students of me being one of the spies to the school authority. Besides, the students envied me I was working harder and defeating them in class work. Coupled with the leadership opportunities and prowess in the class the rest of students viewed me as not being one of them. At times I feel I matured beyond my age thereby could not be approachable by me peers leaving me to learn the hard way when it comes life social skills. Similar to how I behaved at home, I had little time for the social activities apart from concentrating on my book works as my significant activity while at school.
My belief in hard work got a test at after my 22 years old birthday. I was the brightest of all my siblings, and that raised my expectations I was to get the best in life compared to them. It took more years for me to study than my brother whom left early and went on to carry out other businesses which shortcut for getting the best things in life while the dogmatic person like me believed on genuine hard work through school work. Besides, he got married earlier thereby providing him with ample opportunity of settling up. Still on with my studies, I have not seen any of it pay off regarding material well being that makes one comfortable in life. Besides I keep my stand to date though now, I strongly feel that has not paid off in my life as expected. On the contrary, I have the least when it comes to wealth and social life.
In brief, everything that I was promised to get while young if I worked hard has not come to its fulfillment. The kind of work I do does not give me what I expected regarding pay and the comfort that it provides. Socially I feel alienated since I have few friends and most people keep off my company and I strongly feel most people tend to avoid me. The parents and teachers who had respected me before no longer hold that since now those with more materials wealth are respected as opposed to my certificates. They always scold me for being not proactive in looking for a good job that is related to my field of study.
It’s the reverse of roles where unlike during my childhood I am now the one envying my siblings because of the achievements they have made in life. I strongly feel they had done nothing to achieve it. At times I feel they may have some charms that enable them to take all that I dreamed of having. It pains to see myself struggling while those who did not work early in their life are enjoying the benefits that I believed could only receive from hard working. Besides I tend to do most tedious jobs since my brother has a business that he barely spends any 8 hrs in yet it pays him heavily. In the recent past, I resulted in carrying out multiple jobs as part of my hard work philosophy but does enable to close the gap with my other peers who are doing remarkably well.
Now my belief having been severely tested, the question that comes into is whether it pays to be rogue in life. I do not see any price for the good morals I have kept in my life so far. The belief on hard work was firmly rooted in me since my childhood. I currently do not have techniques for making shortcuts in life. However, shortcuts seem to pay, and they pay well if they are made smartly. A friend of mine once informed how people might work tirelessly on the farms, but the salesmen will take the most of it. On that note, my question was what about amongst the salesmen themselves. I feel still within that prestigious profession where those who work hard. Most probably the one who does little pay attention to other life-fulfilling things that makes them successful.
