Quote

“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.”- Unknown.

The first time I saw this phrase I really loved it. It is a shame that we don’t know who said it. Although it is very similar to “Practice is perfect” this phrase has two parts. First it says “Don’t practice until you get it right” because many people whenever they reach what they were trying ones they forget it and feel as they have accomplished something. Instead, the great people are the ones that make the second part of the phrase “Practice until you can’t get it wrong”. If you really think this through, by the time you can’t get it wrong you would have reached perfectness. What I really liked about this phrase is that apart from principally applying to sports it actually applies to every aspect you can think of. From a mathematical calculus to memorizing a sequence. As this phrase can apply to everything you may apply it in your everyday life to get inspiration and accomplish all your goals.

I relate to this quote in so many ways. First of all I am a person who likes to set himself goals and if I really follow this phrase it will help me a lot to improve in every aspect. I have many aspects in my life where I can and want to improve. Basketball, school, math, physics, French, English, reading, memory, writing. All this aspects are very important to me, in some of them I am very good, in other not that much, but in all of them I can improve. I know it is almost impossible to reach perfection in every aspect, but it gives you a better sense of yourself to know that you are as close to perfecto as you can be. I’ll keep practicing, obviously, until I can’t get it wrong. 

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Part III

Okonkwo finally is returning to Umuofia and although he knows things have changes he has some plans to make his return more important. At first he notices that no one really cares about his return because the big thing that is going on is the white man invasion. During a festivity of the town Enoch, a converted man, unmasked an egwugwu that is a big crime someone can commit. I think that Enoch did this as to say that their religion was false and the spirits didn’t existed. After this crime obviously everyone was mad and went to burn the church. This was like the event that started to create a confrontment ambient between both cultures.

In a preventive act the commissioner cheated the clansmen of Umuofia by capturing them. They tortured the clansmen during days. No food, no water, no space. They were whipped and hurt. This continued until the commissioner asked for 200 cowries as an exchange for the prisoners. When the messenger went for the cowries he asked for 250 and took those left 50. The clansmen were finally released so they decided to organize a reunion of the entire town. Okonkwo was full of anger and hate towards the white men for what they had done to him and his men.

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During the reunion some of the clansmen spoke and started to discuss about the actual situation. Suddenly they see a messenger sent by the commissioner and without thinking it twice Okonkwo grabbed his machete and decapitated the messenger. Everyone was shocked; they were not sure why he had done that. Okonkwo got disappointed because he did that as to encourage his town to rebellion but everyone gave him their back. This was too much for Okonkwo, after all he has fight for and everything he has been thought, so he gave up. He killed himself as to say that they couldn’t change him because he was going to die before they killed him.

At the end the missioner speaks as if the tribe were an inferior specie and that he was just “studying” them.

Achebe, C, (1994), Things fall apart, Anchor Books, New York.