Although money wasn't available for a smooth flow during my schooling days, I had fun. I enjoyed the adventures, especially the personal ones, and each time I look back at how it was back then, smiles fill my face.
Before gaining admission into the tertiary institution, I didn't have any relatable clue because I was the first in my house to attend one. The cousins in the extended family exaggerated a lot of things, which I knew were way off because they were fond of exaggerations, especially when talking about cultism acts on campus. Despite the movies and the talks, I never fancied the idea of being forced into a cult or being chased. I just knew that trouble always finds those who are troublesome.
I knew there was going to be freedom and, meanwhile, I wasn't so freaked out because my life at home was totally homely and church-oriented, which I knew I was going to carry along because I already had church people by my side watching me. Lol.
The adventures:
At my current age, sometimes I sit down to reflect on how busy I was wooing ladies while I was in school, and I would laugh because I took some laughable, unthinkable, and crazy steps. In those days, I would give myself a target to melt down a particular girl's heart, and I usually conquered no matter how tough the lady was.
I also engaged in fishing in the bush and, whenever I think of it now, I keep wondering what led me and my friends into that because it wasn't as if we had no money to buy fish or meat to cook food.
We set traps inside rivers deep in the bush, very far away from the living area, and we would go there every morning and night to check those traps to see what they had caught. Yes, we were laughed at for being very local and living like indigenes of the community, but we weren't bothered. Did we ever catch fish? Yes, we did, but it was just once, and the second catch was a tortoise. Unfortunately, we don't eat tortoise, so we had to throw it back into the water.
Church life:
Yes, this lifestyle helped me a lot even though I was very churchy and was mocked as well. The church lifestyle connected me to a lot of people, and the bedrock of what I am doing today came from those people.
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