With your partner, discuss and narrate an incident about a person who likes to show off. Check whether your classmates agree with you.
With your partner, discuss and narrate an incident about a person who likes to show off. Check whether your classmates agree with you.
You can be at peace with yourself when you are true to yourself. Showing off doesn’t pay in the long run. It may impress some for some time but not all, all the time. My friend Ramesh falls in this category. Whenever you see him, you would always find him with half a dozen books. In the class, he interrupts the teachers for one or the other reason. If the teacher says that the World War II was fought in 1940s, Ramesh does not tolerate this kind of generalisation. He stands up and says, “Sir, to be exact from 1939 to 1945.” This lean and thin spectacled Pantaloon had faced many interviews including the N.D.A. It was not the Board that interviewed him but it was Ramesh who interviewed the Board. The result was obvious. Every time he got a rejection letter.
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