What I Do For Living

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AYOMIDE

TRUE LIFE

About my family,I was born into BOGE family of countless relatives,they or let me say we cos I still bear their surname are plenty ,it went extreme that I don’t know most of the family members ,I guess it was because any man in boge family will at least marry 2 wives,it’s like a generational curse cause I don’t understand why a man would love problem,you know what I mean by that , polygamous family ,same thing applies to my so called father ,but I don’t blame him,I blame my mum for marrying him cos I found out my mum wasn’t even the first wife nor second but the third ,goosh ,isn’t that weird,why would she decided to dip her head inside a polygamist family ,no,I won’t blame her ,like I said don’t judge people without hearing them out first,my mum explained the reason she married my dad to me and that was a sad thing to experience,how can a woman married for 15 years without a pregnancy less to talk of miscarriage,that pushed her out of her first marriage and she was told never to make fun of a man, even if he is a cripple,thank God she didn’t even went that extreme ,well,she found my dad and married him,though the two wives hated her so much but she’s got no choice as per say someone looking for child, a woman who is finding a child doesn’t sleep with pant ,months later,my mum had my pregnancy to my dad and I was delivered after 9month as usual ,not as usual Asin very easy pregnancy oo, According to what she told me,she said she was on a sick bed for the rest of the 9months, mention all the priest she was taking to,was it the pastor that dumped them of thousands or the clerk that lied to them and collected millions or the herbalist that built house through her ,but my dad never show up for the nine month as well ,it’s been my mum relatives,well my birth was successful,it wasn’t through cesarian but naturally ,isn’t God wonderful,my mum gave me the name Ayomide right from my birth,I mean right from blood

The Ayomide started growing up,day by day,weeks by week’s,months by month ,it’s not up to year and I entered one sickness room,the sickness that I lost my life but I can’t tell how God restored my soul ,that’s just God for us,my death was pronounced but here I am today ,Asif that wasn’t enough ,my mum went into another sickness for months when she had twins pregnancy,it wasn’t easy as well but she gave birth to two boys again,taye died three days after the birth,an infants going through a lot,he was using oxygen to breath before he passed out while Kenny still sustained to live for 2years until he died also ,isn’t that too much , now it’s been only me with her ,that was why I became the only daughter of her ,it’s not over until it is over, after the death of the twins,my mum started having eye problem due to too much of tears ,not again is that enough ,my mum entered a sickness battle ,I mean death before life sickness,the sickness lasted for two good years and half,it was known to be a spiritual problem and many people claimed she can’t survive it but her mother who happens to be my grandma kept on taking her from church to mosque,from mosque to shrine , different people gave different solution center but she came across a church located only inside a deep bush,I mean bush were different wild animals are been killed,but she survived it,I mean God had got her back right from day one,He didn’t say they won’t be formed,he said they won’t be prosper ,my mum is a type of being that doesn’t go to church nor mosque and not even a shrine but she believeth more in God that some pastor’s ,or is it not under this heaven some pastor’s will go to herbalist for more powers to perform wonders ,tcheew in between my mum sickness,I remembered the way my aunt beat hell out of me that I had a tear in my palm,I still sees the stitches of the tear,it’s now a scar on my palm ,after the sickness,we returned to my dad’s house ,my dad had also had an accident that now made him uses crutches,he used years also in hospital before ending up been a one leg man ,well the couple United and my dad renovated our house,my mum started her pety trading job ,a shop was built at the front of our house,and it started from one shop to three shops with a loads of provisional markets , interesting right,I was enrolled in one of the top 10 most best school in the whole of ikorodu,I was always coming out the best in my class,the least position I took was 3rd and that was once,it happened due to lack of concentration,have been having issues with my both parents, conflict all the time that started all of a sudden,Asif that wasn’t enough,my mum still manage to stay in the toxic marriage all in the same of I don’t want to leave my daughter,I don’t want to take her away to suffer,either of the two ,we later left my dad’s place after a long time of sufferness and beatings, beatings that led to her been hypertensive,well ,I was done with my secondary school at age 13,wonderless how,I lost of focus could made me the third position,what positions would I take when I am focused,I got double promotions repeatedly,till my dad voiced out to put to stop of it,I run debate in an excursion for my school ,in between my grandma had died , if not for her death,we wouldn’t have left my dad’s house,she’s got that power of act of striving for her own daughter and it’s been me and my mum ever since then,it wasn’t easy for us ,to be honest ,tears everyday and night like daily food ,my education was able to stop right in that process but later someone took possession of my education and I found myself in lasu

That’s part of my story,I mean story of my life

Fiction:

Now did you still want to judge me for my mean of living

Is not that there is no job I can do aside the fraudulent act but I don’t want to focus on two things ,my education or any other work and end up loosing focus on my education,I know what I faced before God answereth my education terms now,I don’t want to loose focus on it as have promised myself to make that woman (my mum) proud

Does my mum deserves the monthly salary

You dare not say no and if yes ,how do I raise such amount of money and the least I could do is sell my body for money ,over my dead body

Over to you,judge me if you can bear the pains