The Academy. Getting into the Nigeria defence academy
and passing out of NDA are two different
things.
Decide on what your aim is.
Because you will pass out of NDA as a
totally different person. Thatperson may
have different goals in life. The trainig at
NDA may make you long for something
else, instead of quenching the thirst of
your set aim of NDA, it may increase your
hunger for something more. It may give
you an everlasting hunger to achieve
more and a curse of no satisfaction on
achieving any great a feat. Might happen
you find yourself saying ‘yeh dil maange
more’ at almost every achievement.(it
usually does happen)
Thirdly. The lifestyle. If u ask any ex-NDA
(people who have trained in NDA), NDA is
not just an Academy. It is more of a
lifestyle…. a psychology…. an attitude…a
way of living. Your aim of NDA should not
be to get into NDA but should be that of
following that lifestyle, carrying the
teachings and learning of that institution
intact throughout your life. This ‘NDA
way of living’ can also be adopted even if
you don't happen to make it to NDA,
though 3yrs of drilling some principles in
your viens through all your holes and
pores only helps.
Lastly. The journey. They say NDA
transforms you from a Boy to a Man. This
journey of transformation is actually a fast
forwarded lifetime in itself. You join as a
novice. You are treated as dirt, because
you are. You are taught and groomed.
Slowly and steady you rise up the ladder.
You learn to earn respect. You learn to
sacrifice. You learn to fight for honour
with honour. You start getting treated
better. In the later part of your stay there,
you are treated as the elders in the
family. Now you teach and groom others.
You learn to take care, you learn to
provide, most importantly you learn to
lead. You learn to win. When u pass out
of the Academy you
are an accomplished man with an
experience of a life time behind you. You
know how to respect others at the same
time be respected. You have a judgment of
what is worth to pick a fight for. You
know how to take a stand and you have
the confidence and self belief to stand
strong on your ideology and principles.
You have been through trying…. failing..
falling…getting up back on ur feet….
(buying form after forms)Trying again…and again…And again with
unbelievable intensity…you have learnt
how to win, how to achieve. You have
measured the depth of loyalty and
shallowness of pain. You have tested the
strength of the threads of honour. You at
this young age have learnt to sacrifice…
even with your life…If need be!
So my advice will be that you take off
making NDA your goal…once you achieve
that, you will have a better vision to
decide the aim of your life.
#The day you enter the campus, you will
cherish the view and the magnanimous
aura. But after when the training starts,
you will be thinking of "Oh God! Why are
places so far away from each other?"
Guess why?
Because you will be running constantly to
get to one place and then to the next
through out the duration of your stay.
a new beginning!
Goodluck!
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