Disobedience, whether in personal relationships, professional settings or societies is accompanied by consequences. No matter the magnitude of the act, the consequences are implicated and sometimes even extend beyond the immediate act.
In this write-up, I share a personal story on how a little act of disobedience caused me to lose a lot.
I had an Open Source(one of my courses as a computer science student) class two weeks ago but the lecturer who was supposed to handle the class couldn't make it.
She handed down the class to another lecturer. The lecturer to whom the class was handed happened to be our course(Database) lecturer too. We had already met him before, for his class, and during the meeting, he set some rules for us.
One of the rules was not to use a phone in his class else the phone would be confiscated and given back only after a day or two.
On this fateful day, I went to the Open Source class. I was a bit shocked when I saw him lecturing and a bit confused too but because I was a few minutes late to the class, I didn't say anything and headed to my seat.
During the class, we were asked to use certain software on our laptops. I didn't have a laptop then and had very little knowledge of what the software was so I decided to look it up on the internet. As I was doing so, the lecturer appeared behind me and asked for my phone. I quickly remembered his rule and quietly gave it to him in hopes that I would receive it after class.
The class ended and I went over to this man to take my phone. He said he would not give it to me until the next day. I begged him and tried to explain my reasons for using the phone in class, all to no avail. I waited for him to finish his two-hour class and pleaded after he was done too.
It wasn't his class and hence the rule could or couldn't apply. And also because what I was using the phone for was about what we were studying.
I went home that day without my phone. I missed a very important lecture and also my language class too.
As the day passed by and I calmed down I thought, "Maybe what the man did was not entirely right, that's the cost of disobedience".