We all travel to places to see things or for official assignments, some even travel just to visit friends or family members. In most of this travels, people tend to encounter themselves with the new environment they have gone to meet, Not because they have not traveled before but because they have gone to meet a totally different society. Some will even go to the extend of losing their way, A similar thing happened to me just some few days back in one town in Ghana. I nearly became a laughing stock before something in one of our big institution.
I visited one town in Ghana to visit my relatives, friends and also to carryout some official assignments. In one of those days during my visit, I got short of money, so I had to pick a Taxi to one of the nearest banks just to take some money. I got to one bank called GT Bank, I was not their customer nor do did I have an account there but my fortunate aspect was that, they operate an ATM machine. This their ATM machine I was lucky because it accepted Visa card from other banks, so I inserted my card into the machine. This was where I became a "Jonny just come" before this ATM machine.
When I inserted the card, in my location when you insert a card you wait for some minutes to access it but theirs was different. Because in my location when your card is accepted by the machine, the ATM request for your pin number, not knowing this GT Bank ATM was different from my usual bank. In their case it was not requesting for my pin number but for me to select a language, so I also stood there waiting for this ATM to ask me for my pin. I stood there for more than minutes and this ATM will not ask me for my pin, so I became helpless at that time. I was looking left and right to see weather I was doing the wrong thing or what, because someone may thing i wanted to do something bad before the machine. Do you know what happened when I stood there for those minutes without the ATM machine asking for my pin? If not that experience, I never knew an ATM machine could request for something apart from a pin number first.
It took the services of a second party who was then the security man at post, he had to approach me to see what I was doing before this ATM machine for all that long. When he came he saw the machine asking for a Language and I was standing, so he directed me to select the language. There was English and other two languages, he further guided me to select my purpose and finally withdrew the money from the bank. You see, I am a professionally trained teacher but yet I took the services of a " common " security man ( I don't even know his level of education) to guide me perform my service. Who knows, I may had stand there for long hours or even put my self into trouble for staying long with the device.
Lessons we all need to learn from this trip
1) We should know that, in this world no body knows everything on this earth. That's why you cannot be rich and poor at the same time or good or bad at the same time, you will be one at time.
2) We should also know that, you can be a teacher today and be a student tomorrow due to the situation. Like what happened to me, I became a student before the ATM machine and the security man the teacher.
3) We should show love to who ever we meet, because the one you will pass by today will rescue you from something some day some where. In my situation I first greeted the security man before I went to the ATM machine.
4) We should be ready to learn from others, because God have created us all different. So what you know I may not know it and the vise Verser. If I thought I was more than the security man, can you imagine what would have happened to me?
5) This also shows that, learning is a continues thing not a one day job. ( a process not an event)
This my personal experience, a real life situation not a fiction. I hope you have learned something from it too, it can be of help to you one day.
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