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*True Life Story: What Happened the Day I Failed Pt 1* _By Precious Ejiofor_ It all happened like a dream. It was a beautiful morning that fateful day, I remembered how I could feel. How I had no nights just in anticipation of my performance that day. I was contesting for the Public speaking category of the famous Port Harcourt Shift competition 2019. I have managed to scale through the preliminary stages and so I found myself in the finals. Just few days before the competition on 28th April 2019, I got involved in an accident, and was decorated with stitches all over my body. I remembered how the words of the nurse pierced my soul like a hypodermic syringe; when she said "you won't be able to walk for sometime". But as a fighter I have always been, i never let that news derail my quest for my speaking battle. So the long awaited day came, and I prepared so well for it. Everyone is so scared of failing, cause it hurts alot, I never knew one day, I will absorb ...

*True Life Story: What Happened the Day I Failed Pt 2* _By Precious Ejiofor_ But one thing was certain, and it was in that my inner joy rose to limelight. I could picture the camera flashes and massive ovation in my mind, because my soul has found pleasure in her ordeal - I impacted lives, souls where touched by my speech and while I was crying I just remembered; and it was enough for me to be happy for the remaining part of the year. So I sensed it was just a platform to inspire more lives; i wouldn't have gotten such podium anywhere so I thought. If i continue crying, and the persons I just finished inspiring and creating a hunger for excellence sees me? After creating a zest for the zenith in their lives? What if they see me and decipher what i said where not true because I was the very first victim of my speech. And so I stood up wiped my tears and smiled. And I told myself,  Failure is the first step to Success. I was not going to give up. The moment you accept failin...