Anith Kumar

Trezentos Reunió - The 300th meeting of Periyar Toastmasters Club

Periyar Toastmasters Club - Meeting No 300 - Trezentos Reunio' The 300th Meeting of the 1st Community club in Jubail for Keralites

It is been almost an year since I achieved the Distinguished Toastmasters status and yet got hold of this plaque today morning. Indeed getting hold of this culminated the feeling of completing the arc...

It has been a struggle... In our hometown kerala they say "കരയുന്ന പൂച്ചക്കെ പാലോള്ളൂ" which means only the crying cat gets milk. I would like to rephrase it stating that sometimes you will get what you need only if you ask. But even if you ask, you should expect denials.

Year before last when toastmasters decided to move to pathways, I had already completed my ACS and the major obstacle in front of me to achieve DTM was to be a district official. I approached my division but was denied since they had already decided. So I kept quiet. I even approached other divisions and same was the case.

When it seemed to be darkness all around, toastmasters threw light by giving us an option of being the club coach. Again denial by my division continued and I continued my silence. But I was keenly looking for finding my alchemist. As they say the universe indeed conspires and it did when I found my alchemist through DTM Sadagopan who gave me a chance to become the club coach.

There was no turning back then. Achieved my ACG, ALS and DTM resulting in back to back triple crown awards as well.

The denials didnt stop there. It came in the form of COVID 19 which delayed the shipment of this plaque and then it was send by toastmasters to my home address with wrong contact credentials. It got stuck in some warehouse in banglore.

When enquired to TMI, they informed it was reshipped but not delivered. When scrutinized, the given airway bill number remained the same for both shipments but was denied by the sender.

This time I was not ready to keep quiet.There was series of back an forth emails with TMI and after communicating with 4 different people, I was finally able to convince them to send it to my Saudi Address with no extra cost.

The bottomline is, when you gain something by fighting for it, the happiness is doubled and that is exactly what I feel now.

I would like to thank my home club, Periyar Toastmasters club for giving me the platform and Manoj C Nair, DTM for motivating me to join this fraternity.

And to all the aspiring leaders out there, my humble advice is to react by asking questions when denials occur. Because if you keep quiet, then you are either silently accepting whatever is put to your plate or denying your rights that you were supposed to get if you just dared to raise your wings of fire.

Best Regards
Anith P Kumar, DTM

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