ATTEMPT 1. TOO EARLY FOR GOODBYE.
I dropped out of college four times in vain. You got me right. The same institution, the same course. I said goodbye four times before the final goodbye. I believe giving up is not an option until the only option that gives you hope is giving up. I gave up fighting only to realise I conquered the battles I was to conquer. Today I will give you the circumstances that forced me to give up and call it a quit. Before I narrate the first attempt, kindly, note that all I ever desired to be, is a teacher or a priest. I was lucky to land in a teacher training institute to train as a teacher. And it is in this very course and institution that I opted out this number of times. This is how the first attempt happened. It was the second term of my first year in college. For those who don’t understand the academic year of a teacher training institute, it is exactly like that of secondary and primary schools. Three terms in a year. The first term of fourteen weeks, the second term of...