Journey of My Life: The Beginning…Really

The beginning of my life’s journey will start from this entry on; hopefully, I’ll have time to update it often. I said before that I may start from my baby years but I think I’ll skip that and move a little bit forward.

Since starting to learn to talk, read, and write, as well as knowing my alphabets and numbers, a prominent thing that my parents and teachers started to realized was that I had a very BIG problem in pronunciation of certain letters or words. The most boggling to them (and to myself), was the fact that I can remember all of my alphabets and numbers at a very early age but for some unknown reason I can’t, for the life of me, remember its sequence and placement. Meaning that I would put, for example, C, F, E, 1, 3 instead of the normal A, B, C, D. And when I write some of them, they become, well, funny…Why? I would write ‘e’ facing the other way or even the number 9 would be facing the wrong direction.

Furthermore, I was a VERY slow learner and couldn’t understand something if it was not repeated to me for at least twice or three times. It’ll come in one ear and go out the other within seconds. My parents were awfully worried, experts said that there’s nothing wrong with my brain or anything, I’m supposedly a perfectly healthy child…They said I was just slower than others and will develop faster brain functions once I’ve grown older…But sadly, hope was beginning to expire in my family as when reaching 7 years old, I still couldn’t write, read or speak properly. What was to become of me, they wondered. I, myself, became more despondent and got quieter. I was ashamed to speak out loud because of how funny it may sound, as well as the fact that it was hard to pronounce even the simplest words. Better to just be quiet than be laughed at for being different.

So…What happened between then and now that made me capable of speaking, writing, and reading properly? Well, that’s a story for another entry. That’s it for now and the next entry may include a summary of my FYP as it’s also a part of my assignment. Take care and may God bless us all, amin.