Everyone in my village said my aunt "aunty joy" is crazy, they say she is wired because in my village anyone who acts weird is abnormal but my aunt was the sweetest aunt one could ever had.
I am 16 years old and I just finished writing my waec in our village and if there is something that has taught me something important about life, that is my aunt "aunty joy" the same one everyone says is crazy and wired because she used to talk to her self with her old mirror every time when she is alone .
One day I saw her talking to her self in front of am old mirror in our house and I really wanted to hear what she was saying, I thought maybe some kind of incantation or something but when I went close, I only heard her saying
"You are still beautiful"
"You are still young "
"You can still get married"
I was surprised hearing that, I couldn't move, I was just standing there looking at her and that was when I remembered that she was once engaged and was promised marriage before her finance traveled to the state and got married to another lady and that was what kept her in that condition ever since then.
It haven't been easy on her but she is trying so hard to hide it and console herself.
One day I asked her why she always talked to her self in front of that old mirror in our house and she answered and said:
"See, when the world forgets you, don't ever forget your self and don't look down on your self and you should learn to appreciate yourself in everything"
This word's kept on ringing on my ears everyday.
You see when I was writing my waec in our village, there were sometimes I felt discouraged and our school don't even have enough chair and sometimes we could stay outside to write under the sun.
One day, one boy came to me and said " this village girl, do you even think you can pass this exam"
I was so angry and those was stroke me so hard that I went home that day crying, I ran to our house where my sister's mirror was and I sat there and said to myself
" You are intelligent"
" You are smart"
"You will pass your exam"
I thought that it won't work but it's worked, I was very happy within myself
Then I realized that my aunty was not crazy like our villagers thought but she is trying to survive her own way through the heart break .
So yes, people may still call my aunt crazy or wired, but to me, she is the sweetest aunt you can ever have, she thought me how to encourage myself even when the world forgets me and even when people around me look down on me, I shouldn't look down on myself and she also though me that I don't need the world to clap for me, I should always learn to appreciate myself.
So people may still call her nutty but she is very smart and wise.
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