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29/03/2020

Prompt 2
By: Mbiankeu Yves Potiron

Yves Mbiankeu
Name: Mbiankeu Yves Potiron
Class: Dp-1

Prompt 2: Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or

failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the
experience?
In our present day, we have more than one problem affecting our entire world and
most of us personally and significantly. With this Coronavirus outbreak which affects the
whole world making mor than half of the worlds population to be on lock down, some
separated from their families, without enough food, equipment’s to keep them and their
family members safe and clean. One of these is my case.
This current world problem occurs at bad timing on my side, being alone at home
with old grand mother and just the gate man and the housewife, the main management
of the house falls on me. In the absent of my parents who travel but now can’t come back
because airports are blocked, i must handle everything by myself. This came as a
challenge for me because, it happened at a time where I wasn’t prepared at all, whether
physically or mentally. It came as a shock and every day till now, I have to take care of
managing the amount food left, replenishing it and what to cook, the salaries for the
workers using the money my parents left and receiving and keeping my parents
merchandise which they were supposed to retrieve if they were present, which isn’t the
case no more because of this coronavirus outbreak. It suddenly transferred a lot of
responsibilities on my shoulders and before this, I didn’t always take time to pay attention
to what everybody needs and all that stuff.
However, some-time later, I realized that, this is a challenge life has placed on my way for
me to learn because one day I shall not have my parents to help me and I have to be ready
mentally especially for that, wasn’t easy at the beginning but I gradually got the hang of it.
I maned up and took the responsibilities up my sleeve and my parents are happy to see I
can manage all these by my own. It made me understand that, life isn’t the same thing
when we don’t have people to help us constantly, that we have to be prepared to face any
kind of challenge and it won’t ever be easy but then, that is what makes us stronger,
whether it is physically, mentally or even intellectually, there are always things to make us
pass our limits and nothing happens without having a purpose behind it, for me, it was to
make me aware of my capabilities, what I lack and how I can and have to grow to be more
mature.
Life is full of surprises and unexpected situations, the only thing that makes a difference
upon all of that, is our capacity to adapt and react to these situations rapidly and
efficiently. We can’t just sit down and hope everything shall be done for us, we have to
stand up for what we want and make ourselves clear, many today shall be in very difficult
positions when they will have to departure from home and I don’t just know how they are
going to manage out there, because out here, we are not given things unnecessarily.
Before this event, I thought I knew how hard my parents work to raise my brothers and
sisters and I but with this, I just realized how difficult of a work it is and I need to be ready
because one day it shall be my turn, in my own family or even at my future job, we never
know what the future has for us but, we just have to be ready.