Fellow Nigerians, poverty is not a good thing at all. If you are poor, the very day you are given five hundred million dollars may just be your last day on earth. I'm very serious about it. Some have been too use to poverty that they even prefer it to riches. I was once like that, but things have changed now.
I want to share with you guys the little story of my life. Sometimes when I remember how it all started,i will even doubt it myself. And sometimes also I feel like is a dream. But no is not a dream. Is real, but just that the pains of where I am coming from makes it look as if it won't be possible for me to be who I am.
I just feel cheated. I have known poverty all my childhood. And it has become normal for me. I'm not even thinking of getting rich but it is an impossible mission. I can't see poverty living any time soon.
But with all the poverty in our family, my mother never mentioned to me that the man I have known all my life as my father is not my father. But it never showed up. He has always treated me like a daughter. He has shown me love and nothing but love.
The call that came in last week made me know that what God can not do does not exist. I was just working in my shop weeks back and a strange number called me. When I picked the call, I heard a foreign voice. I quickly switch off my phone because I can't stand been scammed at this critical period. But the number kept calling that I had no choice than to pick after seven mis calls. The man kept speaking through his nose and i can hardly understand what he was saying. This time when I want to stop the call I heard him saying that he is the PA of Elon Musk. Then I asked who is this Elon Musk and what does he want from me. To cut the long story short, he asked me to speak to my mother that she is standing right beside him there. I started having another fear thinking that my mother has been kidnapped. Then my mother collected the phone from him and told me to calm down that nothing bad has happened to her. then she asked me to take any available car to rush down home.
My friends, if na you watin you go do? I just stopped what I was doing to rush home. But the journey of twelve hours seems to.me as if is twelve days. I wanted to know why that urgent call. What is happening? Is all the question going on in my.
I was made to understand that before my mother got married to her husband, she once worked in a hotel in Abuja. She told me that she used to be very pretty and attractive. Elon Musk was younger then and came to Nigeria for a business trip that lasted up to one month. He saw her working as a receptionist in the hotel and got drunk one night started making advances at my mother and promise to give her lots of money if she can only followed him to his room. She agreed because she needs money at that point to take care of her sick mother. After what happened between them that night he paid her and went his way. She also thought that it was the end of everything and no one will get the hear about it. But she was wrong. She became pregnant. But that was the moment Elon Musk was preparing to go back to his country. She made a effort to talk to him, but it wasn't possible because he was always busy with all the meetings. One night she got the chance to speak to him. He promised her that he was coming back to her because of the pregnancy, but that was all she heard about him. Just about then that her boyfriend came with his people to pay her bride price, she never told him that she was pregnant until after the traditional marriage. He also decided to allow me to stay with him as my father because he loves my mom so much. Though it took him time to forgive her.
Just about when everything has normalized and I was never told about my biological father until now that Elon Musk came back and started tracing her from the hotel. He was told how to get her and he traced her till he got her and that was when I am getting to know that Elon Musk is my father. WHAT! What do you think that I should do? Should I be angry or happy? Should I scold my mother or be happy that the richest man in the world is my father. Guys I had to go and do a research about this man. You can't believe the information that I got online about him.
According to Forbes reports.
"Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX and the Boring Company in addition to Tesla, has stakes in these companies, which contribute to his worth. He bought Twitter, which he has renamed X, in April 2022 for $44 billion after saying he owned a 9.1% stake and threatened a hostile takeover," I refuse to be angry ohh! Angry for what? Infact, this is the best news ever. I know that hidden it from me is bad. But is all okay now. At least I can have everything I need. I can live the kind of live that I want to, because money is no more the problem. Guys I don't want to blow your mind. And for security reasons I don't want to talk about the kind of money that I control now. Life has been normalized. And all my siblings are also living in wealth now. Riding the kind of cars they want. Living in their dream houses now. Eating what they want and all of that.
All thanks to #hivenaija because this post was inspired by the hive-naija weekly prompt.
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