Holla readers and fellow prestigious hive bloggers, it is another edition of weekly featured content titled "The Accused" in hive learners community
There is a way life make us victims of our righteousness acts, right from childhood I have always had some kind of supernatural power😅. I was born into a family of 6 and we have been Christians for as long as I can remember. due to my childhood experiences about life I have always had a sharp instinct that aided my ability to make the right decisions for myself.
Being Christian, most might consider it to be a prophetic ability which might also be true but this ability of mine allows me to predict the outcome of some situations before it actually happened. though it has helped me a lot in life when I end up making decisions that could have been devastating if it were wrong but some times this specific instinct of mine has gotten me in a lot of trouble with friends, I consider it to be a survival instinct since that is the only rational explanation I could come up with.
of course, a lot of times but there is this particular situation that got me in so much trouble with my colleagues to the extent that they threatened to beat me up in class.
It was during the first year of my Higher national diploma in Moshood Abiola polytechnic mass communication department, every second semester of the first year there is a course in our curriculum called practice of advertising that involves the use of practical. the whole idea of the course is to train us on how to become professional advertising practitioners and the best way to achieve that is through undergoing of practical.
though I have talked about it briefly in one of my earlier post on a different topic, As advertising student in order to fulfill the requirement of that practical, we need to form a group of 30 students, each student having their department similar to the structure of an advertising agency. After forming the group we have to take a letter to any company of our choice requesting for their permission to use their company or product for advertising practical.
The decision of which company to use has to be discussed in group meeting along with other stuff related to the practical. Before the commencement of the practical Dr Wasiu (Lecturer in charge of the course) informed all students about need for individual participation in the practical and he formed all group leaders to make use of attendance to note compliance of student with the rules, Every student must be available for the meetings which holds on Mondays and Wednesdays after lecture hours.
I was not the group leader initially but I was elected based on my academic capabilities, As you all know not all student willful comply to rules and regulations or else they are threatened. As time goes on the numbers of student that attend meetings reduced and the practical needs all hands on deck. In order for me to boast group morale I threatened to report the group members attitude to the lecturer and they knew the implications of it. I knew I was just bluffing because I wouldn't want to them have Carry over in the course.
To my surprise on Monday, Dr Wasiu came to the class and requested for the practical attendance and promised that attendance only is 30 marks out of the 50 marks awarded to the course practical. I was shocked because I knew I have not reported, I was just bluffing. I guess the lecturer has noticed the student attitude towards the practical
Hearing this, majority of my group members who were not attending meetings accused me of reporting to the Lecturer. we had a meeting on that same Monday as usual, they came but not for the meeting. they came to find a way to take away the group leader title from me which was not successful I still had the support of the lecturer and some of the group members they threatened to beat me up after school and all sort of things.
if I'm being honest, I didn't. the hatred just died down little by little because the only way for me to prove that I was not the one that reported them was to confirm from the lecturer himself but none of them could do that, they will only end up reporting themselves to the lecturer. I couldn't do anything about it, I just kept doing my thing without attracting any attention.
The practical affected my relationship with my group members who were my colleagues, up till this moment due to the things that happened during the practical some of us are not on talking terms.
I learnt one simple fact, never divulge your opinion unnecessary, if I had not informed my group members about my decision to report their attitude to the lecture, they won't have any idea of what I intend on doing, which would have saved me from all the ill treatment I got from them as result of my Judgement call.
The truth is not commodity appreciated by all