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Bitter Leaf Soup: Roasting Stories III

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Good evening people. I hope your weekend is going on smooth. This is the supposed conclusion to the Bitter Leaf Soup: Roasting Stories or maybe not. If you are new here and you want to understand what the Bitter Leaf Soup series is all about, click here . To read up on the roasting stories, click here. Part 1 . Part 2 [Recap] Part 1. I have a flaw of always defending myself and coming up with excuses It made me to lock horns with my very good friend, Pheno who is very tenacious for the truth. It leads to a 'roasting' session and I see myself through my friends' eyes and my ego is fried. I identify my defects and begin to work on them. Part 2: I work with three pre-teens whose relationship was experiencing tense friction that they were sick and tired of but couldn't voice out. I propose a roasting session and they all agree. It's the Architect's turn to be roasted, she burst into tears and runs out of the library. [Back to Story] The moment ...

Bitter Leaf Soup Series: Roasting (Aftermath of a splintered ego)

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Photo Credit: YouTube.com Good evening everyone, So sorry I didn't post the continuation of the 'Roasting series' yesterday. Sunday was kinda eventful for me so I was too busy to finish up the article. So back to the series. Roasting: The Aftermath of a splintered ego Few things can make a grown man cry those man-tears, stare at the skies, shake his head and sigh 'See my life.' Roasting is one of them. Fast forward two and a half years later after my first 'roasting' experience I had the opportunity to work at (in my opinion) a very prestigious college in the country. I loved the suitable environment for learning, the facilities and techniques used to educate the children, but most of all what I loved was the drive for excellence among the students instilled their academics and competitions instilled by the visioneer and chairman of the group of schools, leading to whooping amount of 54 awards from competitions (Mathematics, English, Science a...