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Life is always about learning things and moving forward but a few lessons stick with you pretty much all your life ever since you’ve been forced to inculcate them in your life.
One lesson that I’ve learnt and the one that has most benefitted me in my life is my involuntary effort to be good at my English, be it reading, writing or speaking the language, I’ve learnt it after I’ve been stuck by a mini-blow that made me realize that I was pretty bad at the language although I was acquiring knowledge about the language since I was in my kindergarten.
I had been to a student-run organisation’s recruitment for new volunteers and there it was required to go through a set of personal interviews and group discussions. Me being a reserved guy can’t really step up my game and start speaking out and that too with people I barely know and I didn’t really perform well in the group discussion. I wasn’t selected and got home dejected but the real issue arose when my parents questioned why I wasn’t selected and when I told them that it was because of the group discussion they were like what English did you learn if you cannot even do well in a GD.
I was distraught and since then I was just curious about my vocabulary and started reading more at that point and improved a bit in my reading, writing and listening skills. My speaking skills are…
