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When People Don’t See Your Vision The Way You Do

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Photo Source: Georgy on Pinterest  “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde  A lady at work once asked to borrow my phone. I thought she wanted to use my hotspot, just as she had done before, so I gave her my phone while paying attention to what she was doing.   However, I noticed she didn ’ t want me to see what she was doing. To cut the long story short, I discovered that she had used my YouTube account to subscribe to her own channel.   I was short of words. Immediately, I unsubscribed. I gave you the liberty of using my phone, which I probably shouldn ’ t have done without more caution, and you went ahead to my YouTube account to subscribe to your own page without asking.  What happened to simply asking? Why not just be honest about it?   She later came to meet me and asked why I hadn ’ t subscribed to her channel. I told her that she never told me about her channel, and I explained the proper way to approach someone for support. ...
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Prepared in secret

                            Photo source: Divine123 victory on vecteezy.com Quote: “Keep preparing in private. When your moment comes, let it find you ready.” -Olaseinde Tobiloba Damilare When I was in secondary school, our English teacher asked the class a question that nobody could answer except me. Normally, I hardly answered questions in class then because the seemingly “bright” or popular students were usually the ones called upon, even when other students raised their hands.  So after asking the class repeatedly and getting no answer on this particular day, the teacher was almost giving up. Maybe he noticed my raised hand and the eagerness on my face, so he finally called me. And to everyone’s surprise, I got the answer right.  The word was “anonymous.”  My classmates were shocked because I barely spoke in class, and even some of the students considered very intelligent could not answer it. They a...
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