The importance of being committed to whatever requires our commitment can't be quantified because most times being uncommitted when we need to commit usually ends with regrets. A lot of factors can be responsible for being uncommitted, sometimes it happens naturally or intentionally while in some situations, things are just beyond our control.
For every human to achieve success in whatever he or she is doing, such a person must be committed and when it comes to commitment, there are no two ways to it than putting everything you have got just to grind out results. It is a quality anyone who wants to attain success must possess and it's so unique that it can't be bought or manoeuvred.
I became a worker in the children's church back then and it's okay to say I learned the importance of being committed from there. It was really challenging at first because Saturday was my play day and sacrificing football for Sunday preparation wouldn't just work for me.
During the children's service, I always struggled to catch up with the activities there and it made me kind of ashamed. I was lacking behind and until I was committed, nothing changed.
Immediately I became committed to my duties, I improved a lot and it got to an extent when I represented the church everywhere. At that point, I understood what it means to be committed and whenever I won't be able to show my commitment to things, I don't begin at all, especially when it has to do with teamwork; I hate being a setback for people.
But sometimes, life comes our way unexpectedly and even though we try to be committed, we just can't in the end.
Before my ND project that year, we had a seminar. It was something to prepare us ahead for our main project and it won't be scored so many students didn't see it as compulsory. I wasn't one of them and I don't joke with whatever had to do with my academics.
We were to submit three topics to our assigned lecturer and I swung into action immediately. I got three topics and Global Positioning Device was my favourite among them.
I went to my assigned lecturer and gave him the topics, he delayed me at his office and eventually told me to come back. It happened like that for days, he would tell me to wait outside while he joked with ladies in his office.
A few weeks to the presentation, this man didn't assign me a topic and just like many other students, I became uncommitted. I told my girlfriend about it and she immediately told me that the lecturer asked her out. She turned him down so he probably investigated her and got to know about me.
Instead of disturbing her, he decided to punish me. Immediately I figured out what was happening, I lost interest completely in trying again. One afternoon, I went through the man's office and saw one of the respected lecturers in the department having a conversation with him so I used the opportunity to present my topics again.
He gave a stupid excuse about not having a pen and I gave him two immediately. He signed my favourite and didn't grant me an audience to check after that day. I stopped being committed to developing the topic and just let it be.
On the day we were to do the presentation, our HOD made it clear that the seminar would carry 20 marks and everyone was thrown into panic. I wished I didn't give up on trying but the lecturer's attitude towards me was just unbearable for me. I hate being cheated and can't stand it, things would have been different if I could report but that automatically means that I am getting in trouble with not just that lecturer.
To cut the story short, I lost the mark and even though I didn't participate, I got a glimpse of what was ahead of me. If not for the seminar, I wouldn't know what that lecturer had in mind for me and it would have been a different problem if all that happened with my final project.
I approached my final project with caution and did everything possible not to fall into the wrong hands of that wicked lecturer. I was committed to my final project and everything went very well for me.