If only I had known that adulthood is full of difficulties like this, I would have volunteered to be a dwarf in our family but I said no, see what I am going through now. I am just pitying those boys who have the nerve to tell their parents that they are adults they have the right to do anything they want to do and they can fend for themselves. Oh my! I just wish they knew the path they are about to tread.
You know, there are many funny things with teenagers, as soon as they clock 18 they start having that urge to be independent, they want privacy, they want to be called men and women, they want to boast about taking responsibility for themselves, hehe! Bravo, bravo, I was once there. If only I knew that thing was a trap, I would have humbled myself and remained a baby for life.
I think there was a time I talked about how I almost died in the night with hunger because I thought I could fend for myself right? I wish I could make a quick summary on that but time is not on my side because as I am talking to you right now, I am already packing my belongings, I am going back to my father's house. now I know why the prodigal son was even ready to be a slave provided it was in his father's house.
A few months back I don't know what came over me, I told my mom I wanted to start living alone, she asked lots of questions and for the adult that I am, I gave her convincing and mind-blowing answers. To complicate things my ego made me tell her I was going to rent a place to stay, thanks to God she didn't give me consent on that but suggested I stay in our new house since there was no one there and I needed privacy dearly.
I was so happy, it didn't take me long, I got material and fixed a room in the house packed my things, and began living alone. For the first month, everything was moving well, I was doing very well, I had some cash, there was enough food, my cylinder didn't run out of gas and everything was just going perfectly well. In fact, I don't even call home at all, I barely visit, I don't ask for anything, I was sorting my needs myself. Guess that was it, I am now a man. Wherever people are talking I will also talk, and Boast of being a man. I even change my tone and compose each time I am talking with young people for them to know that I am no longer a boy.
Foolish me, I didn't know that I was on slippery ground. A few months later, I started feeling the heat, somedays I would eat once a day, someone who used to eat two or three eggs with one noodle, I now eat noodles without eggs. Subsequently, I don't even see noodles anymore. Prior to that time I used to buy food outside but I had to start cooking now.
Gradually my eyes started opening, my gas was finished, I struggled and gathered some cash and refilled, just the day after refilling my cylinder, my Maggie cube was finished, okay, I Managed and obtain half of a packet, after getting Maggi, rice finished, immediately I got rice, beans was already calling my attention.
Let's not even talk about clothes, those are not even my concern but all of a sudden food no longer take me long. It got to a point where I had to start praying because you know in Africa witches and wizards can be dining with you. I didn't say that myself, I watched it in a movie some time ago. Things became very difficult, I could no longer save, and every little cash I get goes to food. It was then I learned how to shut my mouth up. Our parents are really trying. This is just me alone and things are like this just imagine I had another person with me. Hehe
I woke up this morning, and the boys in my stomach began making demands when I went to my cylinder I saw a notice that it went on vacation, I ran into the bush looked for a few firewoods, and made fire only to go inside and see that the only foodstuff left in the room is a cup of rice. I guess this is the point where it ends. Beloved, I am tired, I have called my mom like twenty times already, I don't want to be an adult anymore. I am packing my things back home, living alone is not my mate. Respect parents and anybody you see living alone, I will tell you why next time, when I get home, and I will give you an update.
