THINGS I WANTED TO SAY BUT NEVER DID UNTIL NOW.
THINGS I WANTED TO SAY BUT NEVER DID UNTIL NOW. Written By Felix Olokede One thing I had to fight after my admission into the senior secondary school was the fear of not living up to expectations. For the first time in my life, I started to feel insecure about my intellectual prowess. This fear emanated from the fact that I left a school where I was one of the top three students on a consistent basis to another where 90% of the incoming students were prominent intellectual individuals from educational institutions better than the environment I was coming from. _ After a while, I discovered some unwanted elements had gained access into my mind. I began to doubt if I really belonged to the class of students in the school. The confidence in my competence went AWOL and I began to berate my performances. I was doing well in my subjects but the more I accomplished, the more I felt it was an undeserved reputation. It took me almost two years to admit my struggle with the impostor syndro...