He was a young man who was still
struggling to make earns meet; he had hope of finding love and one day he came across
this teenage girl who was 18 and fell in love with her. The teenage girls
father was very poor and could not afford to pay her daughters WAEC examination
fee of #15,000. He took it as a burden to see her take the examination. He had
gone to the construction site to look for manual jobs to raise the money but
the job wasn’t going to be enough, he also engaged in street hawking and all
kinds of meaner jobs just to raise the money but time was ticking out and the
closing date for the registration was just two days away.
He had just gotten
only #8000 and he still needs #7000 in two days; he took out his phone, his
good shoes and his television and sold them to raise the money. He did get
#15,000 and had an extra of #7000. He paid her WAEC and gave her the extra for
her up keep throughout the examination period. He had not gone to school
at all but he had hope that he would go one day but his joy would be to see her
graduate from the university.
Few months down the line
her result was out, and she did marvellously well. He had been thinking about
how to raise the money to train her at the university and he started saving
before her results were out but the money he had saved was not enough to
purchase the form talk more of paying the tuition fees. He rallied around but
to no avail but then he remember he had only but one valuable possession given
to him by his father before his death, and he thought to himself to put it up
for sale to raise the required money. His father had handed him over the only
land he had and forced him to make a promise to him that he will build his
house on that land. He was fully persuaded in his spirit that she was what he
wanted and that nothing was too much to give. He sold the land and raised
enough money for her education.
He paid her tuition fee,
rented an apartment for her, and saved the rest in the bank without eating from
it in other to it use to pay for her tuition fee and rent every year till she graduated.
After few months he could no longer pay for his rent and his landlord pushed
him out of the house and he began to squat with a good friend but for the joy
of his investments he was willing to despise the shame and endure the pains. He
had made sure she did not lack anything in school, doing all kinds of manual labour
to raise finance for her up keep.
After four years she
graduated and came out with a first class in petrol chemical engineering. He was
so fulfilled, his joy knows no bounds, he had been so proud of his investment. She
went on to serve in an oil company and from there she was taking abroad on
scholarship for her master’s and doctorate and they lost contact. Seven years
went down and he had not heard from her, life became very frustrating, his
friends laughed at him, he had no house to live, no property to fall back to,
no bank account, and worst of all he had not gone to school and age was no
longer on his side. For shame he could not return to his village because his
kinsmen were against him when he wanted to sell the land.
He went on to the girl’s
father’s house to check on them but could not find them at their usual house
address. He was fed up with life and was contemplating with suicide, he took
his last money went to a chemical dealers shop and bought a bottle of acid. He came
back home where he was squatting, and no one was at home, he sat on the bed and
took out the bottle of acid to drink and he heard a knock on the door.
Angrily
he opened the door only to find her stand at the door, he could not believe who
he was seeing as tears rolled down his eyes and she said the most encouraging
words to him “I have not left you”. She took him into her Rolls Royce and drove
down to his village, and showed him the mansion she had built for him on that
land he sold to send her to school, she had also bought him a house at banana
Island, a Rolls Rocye, and has set up a shipping company which he would head in line with her
partners from China.
He could not believe how all these where possible and she told
him that she had a lead that helped to do all these and who also monitored him
while she was away working with an Oil company abroad. And she said to him “for
all the shame, pains and suffering you went through because of me, I am here to
wipe them off forever, without you I would never be who I am today”. They got
married... End of Story.
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