I was supposed to have made this post yesterday, but then the issue with my hive account really got to me. Not that I'm over it though, I didn't just want to Skip the HL contest this week. And since I can still view my account from ecency, I figured why not I just make a post... By the way, I want to use this medium to thank everyone who has one way or another helped in the investigation of my account, thanks for all the love and effort even though it's still in process, I truly appreciate it.
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Back to the discussion of the day, there's always a time in a man's life when he walks down the wrong lane, and only through the love and patience shown by loved ones can bring him back on track. I have been in a such scenario before, where I even made heartbreaking mistakes that almost cost me my life.
As a teenager, I also went through storms and stress that altered my decisions and made me see my mum as the enemy because she was always pushing me to do the right things. At a point, I got fed up and started moving around with friends that inspired me negatively. It started when I started my A-level program that would enable me school in the UK, finally, I had gotten the freedom I always wished for, and the wrong set of friends where right at the door to amplify the already growing waywardness that was secretly growing in me.
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My roommate was the genesis of the bad influence I got, although he was a normal Lagos boy (if you know, you know) but it was as though I was mostly determined to live waywardly. I started clubbing, drinking, and before you know it losing regard for my family. My mum noticed when she told me to come back home for the holidays and I bluntly refused thinking It was high time I overcame my parent's control. At that time I had numerous girlfriends to who I was trying to prove I was a real man and my parents couldn't control me, it worked at first, but later on, I stopped having regard for all the girls I was dating then.
My roommate who was my first bad influencer sat me down one day and asked me a simple question that brought me back on track; * If someone else does what you do to these girls to your sister would you like it?* It was as though I was becoming worse than he was as I was about to join a cult then. His words struck me immediately like lightning and I decided immediately that I was going to stop maltreating them, knowing fully well I wasn't even in love with any of them. That single question was advice enough for me to change my ways and it wasn't long before I began to advise myself as all that waywardness didn't seem like me. I gradually started having regard for my parents once again, it was quite surprising that a single question could change the entire concept of my mind.
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I started seeing the reasons behind my mum's decisions and it was clear that I was the fool all along, in the process of retracing my step I almost lost my mum due to all the heartache my behavior cost her, she became very sick from over thinking and constantly crying over things I did, now I was ready to be better, but she was almost gone. When she started recovering I made sure I did everything that would only make her happy, and to date, it's what I have set my heart to do. Sometimes the best advice we get can come from anywhere and anything at all, if we can see it and learn, we will end up with a lot of happy endings.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today, until next time.
