SELF VALUE

                           

In this season I have being building myself in all spheres in a bid to ensure that none of the abilities I have die without been utilized. This build up came as a result of me re-discovering my value to the world; my contribution and usefulness to my environment and the world at large. Understanding this is what results in growing a good self esteem

Self-esteem is drawn out of your self concept. It is a picture of you before you.

Your self esteem is drawn out of the discovery of the value placed upon you by your creator. Do you know that your behaviour, language use, and your choices in life spring out of the value you place upon yourself? Do you know that you see your friends and your environment based on the value you place on yourself? Those things you let go came out of your impression of you? You gave up on those projects because you did not know that you are of a very high importance to the world. You allowed a lot to just go by because you did not recognize that only you can do it like you in that capacity or area of living. Until you know your value tag, you might just lay there becoming impact less and it is worthy to note that no one is created to die impactless, no one!

 Where do you draw the picture of your value from? From your parent or from friends? The rightest place to get the picture of your value is from God your creator. The value God places on you is the value you should place on yourself at all times. The creator, God, created us all to dominate and fill the earth that is what your value should be like. To dominate! To be success. All that our creator has in mind is in the positive. With this view of life, we can see that we are important.

So when you we see that we are the best of our kind we would be able to contribute to our environment and ensure that the gifts in us is used to influence the world. It helps you to love yourself the way you are with the mindset of bettering yourself everyday. The understanding of your self esteem would also help you to have a purpose for living. Your purpose for living would then be worth dying for. Anything you're currently living for that you cannot die for is not worth it at all. Your purpose will picture your self esteem.

Your purpose could actually be to solve the issue of unemployment in Africa. You could desire to achieve this by being an entrepreneur with the desire to employ people in different works of life. You take different steps to the achievement of this seriously because you believe 'in your world' that if you don't do it no one else can do it and you understand that no one else can do it the way that you'll do it. Your decision to do this springs forth from the understanding that you have a crucial part to play in this world and it is only you that is like you.

One great thing that a good self esteem does to you is that it helps you to see others in the very way you see yourself. So when a man screams down on people at his work place or scared them away from his environment it is because of a particular way he views himself and he feels everyone views him that way also. He values himself lowly (Low self esteem) therefore he can't value those in his environment any better or he might just value himself more highly than those in his environment because he doesn't understand that the nest person is just like him (superiority complex). Any of these (Superiority or inferiority complex) would make you less productive in all that you ought to do.

Lastly, the value you place on a substance result in its usage. The value you place on yourself has a way to help to change the world because you would allow yourself to be grown or left useless, you would be more conscious of all that you do with every opportunity that comes your way. You value you, you value me.

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AUNTY DEE'S ONE KOBO FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

By Ebunoreofe Adedeji

Hola amigos! It means “hello friends”; if you didn’t know before, just say “thank you Aunty Dee” in your mind oo. By the way, its Spanish, So sister, brother, you can form foreign for people outside. Let me introduce myself – I am Aunty Dee. I don’t like using the full form of my name; it’s kind of embarrassing but I promise to reveal that to you as we go on in this journey of ours. So, my people, fasten your seatbelts and let’s drive through my one KOBO every student needs in the university. It’s not easy to be in uni o, I tell you. I’ve been there (I just finished though) and I understand so well. I’ll be sharing my experiences in form of a short story and I hope you learn from them. Have a fun time reading

AMAKA, THE S.S (S.S= SERIOUS STUDENT)
“Guy, abeg, just off that thing”- that was Zizi, one of my roommates. Zizi-strange name, right? It’s a nickname too. Seriously, it’s like no one actually likes their original name anymore. As for me, it’s not my fault, I cannot come and be sharing name with cartoon. I switched off my alarm, it was just 5:00 am in the morning. “Krang , krang”, I could already hear the porter opening the gates. I stood up and stretched my arms, then I went to the balcony to get a bucket filled with water. I started to make my way out of the room to the toilet when I saw Amaka, one of my coursemates on my floor. She wore a hoodie and black jeans, I could see she was coming from an all-night reading session. I quickly greeted her, and I hailed her - “Jacko, jacko, ómó l'abèrè, ìwé l'abí”. She laughed weakly and warned me to stop. I laughed and then I told her to go rest. We parted ways and I went to answer the call of nature. As I was going to the room, I just kept thinking about Amaka, this is the girl you will find all day in the library and all night in the reading room. I shrugged and then I advanced in my preparations for the day. Later that morning, around 8:00am, I got to the lecture theatre and I saw Amaka sitting in one of the chairs reading a textbook. I opened my mouth in surprise, then I started telling myself “Dee, you better be serious o, your mate is reading all day, she went for an all-night reading session and she got to the lecture theatre before you, better pray make tsunami no carry you” (tsunami means withdrawal from uni). I sat down quickly and I started reading, I was still marvelled by the actions of Amaka.

Some weeks later, exams commenced and my first paper was ZOL 101, a course in the department of Zoology. I saw Amaka as we were in the same hall for the exam. She looked a bit pale but I just thought she was nervous. We were called in and we were given the exam papers. Barely some minutes after the command to begin had been given, Amaka stood up, the chief examiner asked what the problem was and then she replied “Hola Amigos, je suis Amaka”. By now, all eyes were on her. She continued by saying “I am Amaka, the LOLO 1 of this university”. The chief examiner quickly ordered two male examiners to hold her strongly, then he called for an ambulance. I was feeling very sad for Amaka but there was nothing I could do other than pray for fast recovery. The ambulance arrived and she was taken to the hospital. When we finished the exam, the air was saturated with talks here and there about Amaka, the S.S turned wèrè (wèrè is the Yoruba word for a mad person). Some laughed, others shook their heads in pity. I went to my hostel and I thought about what happened, and I said to myself “Dee, you better don’t compare yourself to anybody, make sure you rest well o, before you turn to wèrè”. I said a prayer for Amaka, then I took a nap.

ONE KOBO: Your health is important as a student. Try to rest, eat and exercise well(IF YOU KNOW,YOU KNOW), but do not be lazy. Health is wealth, never forget that. Also, don’t be intimidated by anyone, just ensure that you improve on yourself and put in your best!