There is a popular saying that goes like this "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER", i never truly knew the value of these phrase not until i was faced with a challenge and i realized that when correction is been given, most of us won't accept it easily not until we do that thing our own way and it goes bad...
Why can't we listen to the words of someone who has more idea and knowledge than we do but because of our stubborn attitude, we refuse to listen and after doing it our so wright way and it goes bad, that is when we learn from that mistake....
That is too say, we passing through that challenge itself will gives us better teaching than what is been said, you need to pass through a challenge to understand how to handle it better...
I was a victim of these some years ago, i thought i knew it all not until i saw that i know nothing...
On several occasions i have gone against my elders words including my mother and the result was very bad, I nearly got a tribal mark from it, not from punishment but because of the outcome of my strong headedness and stubbornness...
I can remember how a broken plate almost gave me a tribal mark, it was funny to me at first but when I sat down to think about how deep the wound and cut would be then I made up my mind to always listen and also learn from my elders Because they have seen almost everything before my arrival...
What happened and how did it happened ?????
About 5 years ago, I was more of a problem than a solution lolz 😂, back then I was very stubborn and unyielding, I didn't like correction because if you are in this part of my country, you will hate correction because there is always an insult given before any correction and as someone who gets angry easily in the past, I take my annoyance on the task I am given until I saw the outcome...
One faithful day, my mum asked me to go and wash the plates in the kitchen that everywhere is messy and full with dirty plate, I was watching an interesting movie with my siblings in the parlor, we all had chores allocated to us but my mum was focused on me alone and before I knew it she switched of the television and took the remote control inside the room and kept, I was very furious because the movie was coming to an end and it was at that moment she had to switch it off...
I went to the kitchen in anger and was washing the plates including breakable, unbreakable and glass plates, I washed about 25 glass plates and when I eventually finished all, i was arranging the whole 25 glass plates into each other to carry all at once knowing fully well that it would be very heavy...
My mum saw me doing that and she told me not to carry all at once and I should go and come back or else I am going to end up breaking all, I answered her in an angry tone and I refused to listen and ignored her warning, I was still very angry and I carried all thinking I have succeeded in it and I got to the door, I was waiting for someone to open the door and when I saw no response, I had to use my leg to open the door and before I knew it, all the 25 glass plates fell down and broke, the next thing I saw was a piece of glass flying up to where I stood and I didn't even know how it passed beside my cheeks and fell over...
I saw everything on the floor and immediately my body came down, my eye opened up like someone who was just released from a spell and my mum came out with a shout and everything just happened within seconds, I could not move closer to her because of her heavy beating, I was outside for 8 hours and when everything eventually settled down, I sat down to imagine how I would have been with a tribal mark all because of my stubbornness, anger and I too know, my mum wasn't happy with me but she was thankful I didn't get a cut from the glasses...
It would have been a terrible sight, anything could have happened, my eye could have gotten hurt inside and it would have been another story...
In summary, I realized how wrong I was and since that incident, I never washed a glass plate not to talk of carrying more than 5, the experience I had made me understand that what an adult sees while sitting down, if a child should climb the tallest of all trees , he will never see it...
That is too say, they already know the outcome of everything before you do them, meaning they will always be one step ahead of you in life prospects...
In conclusion, I realized I should have listened but I was blinded by anger and stubbornness, the experience I had with the broken glass taught me a lesson of always listening and obeying my elders and also respecting the fact that they know better....
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