Howdy folks, how are you all doing today? Christmas is drawing closer and I can already start feeling it in the air, probably because the weather has started getting really cold.
I left the house before 7am today and that was when I noticed the atmosphere is really foggy and cold. I love how it felt on my skin seeing as the air is saturated with water.
Ok back to the topic, who else feels being a leader is huge stress? As a lot of my lecturers in the university have said, the hardest thing to manage in this world is humans and they are right.
You can easily control and manage animals, push them in a direction you want and they will follow, but humans are even more stubborn and difficult to push. You will end up with headaches just because of a few people that you're leading and it's because of that I usually shy away from leadership positions.
One thing I have noticed in the university is that the moment you're made a leader and the people you're leading see you as someone capable, hardworking, and easy to manipulate, then expect them to leave all the work to you.
People love to have someone they can bend to their will in power, so they can be a form of underground leader while operating in the shadows, manipulating the real leader like a puppet while protecting themselves from repercussions and consequences brought upon by their bad decisions.
Where are all these coming from? I witnessed something from one of my classmates yesterday that made me laugh at how cunning some humans can be. We have a class representative (class rep) who is responsible for making decisions on behalf of the class, but he has been compromised.
Compromised in the sense that some persons have him in their hands and they use him to manipulate things which they can't do because they will be met by strong resistance.
But unfortunately for them, we also have an assistant class rep who is always there to checkmate the moves of the class rep, and she's a tough nut to crack (I am talking about my dear friend @mhizutty 😆).
So because of that resistance, whenever a decision is made by the assistant class rep and some persons aren't cool with it, they secretly cry to the class rep and try to get him to change the decision in their favor, I mean talk about being obnoxious!
Back to the little something I said I witnessed today from one of my classmates, but I will like to start from the top. One of our lecturers gave us a project to do some weeks back, but it failed and he said we should do it again but everyone didn't want to do it because it costs money and it's quite stressful.
The class rep is hardly around and no one wants to go meet the lecturer to see how we can come to a compromise with him and see if we can reduce the cost, but finally one of my classmates cared enough to salvage the situation so she and the assistant class rep went to meet the lecturer.
They finally got him to compromise on the project and he told them that "only those around should participate in the project". What did he mean by that statement? He knows that a lot of people no longer come to school because we are done with our exams, so he said that as a way of punishing those that aren't around.
But my classmate and the assistant class rep decided to just include the entire class, so they announced it on our class Whatsapp group, but the class rep saw it and told her to delete it because the person that posted it isn't in any leadership position.
He later said he will be the one that will meet with the lecturer and announce to the whole class what to do (jealous? Maybe). After that, he didn't even come to school to meet the lecturer, so some of us that were always in school decided to just go ahead with the project.
The day of the project was yesterday, and we planned the project according to the money we have at hand which was contributed by all of us interested in the project. The assistant class rep and my classmate in charge of the project went to buy the materials needed for the project.
When they got back, one of my classmates tried to pay so she can be included in the project, but they refuse to collect the money from her, and she blew up like a volcano.
She was told that we already bought the materials needed for it and her money is no longer needed, if she wants to still do the project she and others that are still interested should go and buy their materials, but she refused.
She kept shouting that the person talking to her doesn't have any right to tell her something like that since she's not the class rep, that only the class rep has the power to make decisions like embarking on a project.
But unfortunately for her, the lecturer didn't put the course rep in charge of the project, but it was someone else that's in charge and the person in charge is telling her she can no longer join. At one point it was about to get physical, but fortunately, the farm manager came out from his office and diffuse the whole situation.
My classmate that was in charge of the project hasn't always been in a leadership position, she was just in charge for just a few days and she was already been dragged to hell by some crazy classmates. That day she made a bunch of new enemies, simply because they can't bend her to their will.
That's how a leader should be, you should be someone that can't be compromised, you shouldn't change decisions on the fly simply because someone tells you he/she isn't cool with it. You shouldn't show everyone that you are weak and can be influenced to make decisions.
A leader shouldn't be afraid to make enemies, and my class rep is someone that doesn't want to make enemies but he is forgetting that you can't please everyone. You got to be ready to step on some toes when you make decisions, coz some there are always going to be people that want things handed to them on a platter of gold.
I shy away from leadership positions because I know I will be ruthless when I am in one, my friends might even end up hating me because I am also going to handle them with an iron fist 😆 I am someone that doesn't like unfair treatment, my decisions are meant to be applied to everyone; friend or foe.
Thanks for reading 💖💖💖
Thursday December 9, 2021
If we are chosen as a leader it is very stressful especially that there is no cooperation. I feel that 😔