The journey: The thick and thin

Greetings!

Life they say is full of mystery, this mystery is what defines life. I life, there's ups and downs and it's only by God's grace that one can survive. The mystery of life always comes with it own emotion and feeling. So, there's no way one will exist in life without being emotional.

This life has really taught me series of lessons. The lesson of my life started after the loss of my mum in the year 2011. Though I'm the firstborn of the family, but my mum loved me so much and I can see the effect of her love in everything I do. On the 23rd of February, 2011, I lost my support and pillar and it's like the world has come to an end, hmmm, I couldn't believe my mum would not be staying with me forever. When she was alive, I was so lazy then that I couldn't do any hard labor, in fact, she would not allow me to do anything hard. There's a particular time that somebody told me to face my academics very, this is because, the person was very sure I would not be able to withstand hard work in the future.
Even, on the day we buried her, someone was saying I only pity that boy called sam, saying, he will be the one to suffer most because of his mum death. All these were what people were saying. Some even promised to take care of my younger brother and I, but all to no avail. Time past and the reality of life later dawn on me.

After the burial, I was like what can I do to sustain myself, having lost the bread winner of the family. That was when I decided to be doing what I could not do before or what my mum wouldn't have allowed me to do. I started going to sites to serve bricklayers as labor, this serving of bricklayers after the manual mixing of cement was not easy at all, but do I have a choice? No, I didn't have any choice than to do it. Back then, come rain, come sun, I must go to work. Its wasn't easy at all, but I adapted. There's a day when the spade got lost that after the day's work, the chief engineer decided not to pay us. It's a terrible decision that everybody including me have to take. So, we took it in good faith without saying anything. How can you say something? That means you are tired of working.

So, after working there for a while, I got another casual job as a laborer at a concrete pole production company. In that company, I used to work day and night just to earn money for a living. So, anything I earn in that company was what I used to take care of my younger brother and myself. It got to a time that I decided to further my education at the university. So then, I decided to be doing this common contributions people used to do. So, I started contributing larger part of my money to the contribution. At this time, I could not even eat well and this affected I and my younger brother. When it was my turn to collect my money that I have contributed, the coordinator of the contribution said the contribution has scattered and I was like why was it when it comes to my time that the contribution scattered, but he could not explain. Then, I have contributed almost 297k but I could not collect a dime. It was painful, but there's nothing I could do and this is because the coordinator was the manager of the company then.

But as God would have it, one of my dad's friend that lives in the UK called my dad. He asked him about me and my dad narrated everything to his friend and that was how my dad friend took over my responsibility even till I graduated from the UNIVERSITY. well it's divine. Also my dad would have loved to sponsor me through the university but he was incapacitated. Although, the man later paid my money to me but not as I wanted it to be paid. There were times he 5k, some other time 7k and so on. Even till now, he's still owing me 15k since 2011. The man just spoilt the money that I could not even use it to do the real thing. But God really helped me in the journey of life. This is my emotional journey through the thick and thin of life.

Thanks for reading.

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