I didn’t grow up in a wealthy home; believe that.
Yeah, I know many people have ‘started from the bottom’ stories but mine’s from the big black jollof rice pot kinda bottom.
I was the type of pupil and even student that was constantly sent home for not paying up school fees.
I never got a birthday cake till I was 16.
(By the way, I was already in the university and I received it as a kind gesture.)
It wasn’t a well decorated cake with some ‘happy birthday’ inscription, it was a naked chocolate cake and it tasted good!
I mentioned all that to make you understand that growing up for me wasn’t a pleasurable experience.
Life wasn’t a bed of roses; it was an arm chair filled with vegetables.
But I’m grateful for my parents who made sure that I got the things I needed, not to the best of my dad’s abilities though… (maybe, I’ll share this story someday)
My father was not perfect but he was a good man.
Arghhh!
I’ve given away too much and that’s not even the point of this post.
I’ve known kindess, learnt it and I promised myself to always extend my bowels of compassion towards people; whether I know them or not.
Once a woman came into my life, showed me kindness for like three years because she thought I looked like her daughter.
Another woman looked onto a shy teenager in church; made me into the little sister she never got to have — she loved me and expressed it boldly.
Shout out to Aunty V!
I was about to resume school as an undergraduate with no phone; word got into this man’s ears and that instant, he parted away with his newly acquired Blackberry Q10.
(This happened in 2015; if you’re conversant with Technology, you’d know this phone was a big deal)
Let’s talk about how I met the Fs!
I was starting out life in a new city and I had no accommodation; this man who had just met me in the space of two weeks offered me an accommodation on behalf of his girlfriend, now wife.
She took me in, fed me and again, I gained a sister.
It’s another night of reflection for me; I could go on and on…
There are more acts of kindness I’ve experienced.
I am forever indebted to these people.
I have experienced kindness and I will always show kindness in whatever capacity I can!
Bye!
