Seeing this topic made me laugh so hard because I really can't just imagine what life is going to be like if I wake up to finding out I'm not the biological child of my parents and people I regard as my family.
I will for sure be in a very big shock of how I never managed to know about it all this while. Because you can tell in today's world that the way you treat your own will definitely be different from how you treat the one that's not yours.
"The first question* I will ask them will be, why they've never for once treated me badly to the extent where I would have imagined if they were the one that gave birth to me. Why have they always treated me right from the very first day I was brought into the family?
Because it only takes someone who has the fear of God to treat everyone equally and not make them feel like they don't belong there. I will definitely have a big shock I might never recover from all my life. Because getting to know that the people I call my family were never my blood is quite shocking and funny at the same time.
People I've known all my life as my family. But then, after the whole explanation, I will just take it the way it is. Because I believe that anything that happens in life has a reason for happening. I will try to ask them if there are any traces of me seeing my family and how I can get to see them and know where I truly came from.
It will be quite hard at first for me if I get to find out that I came from a poor background after living all my life as a person who was born with a silver spoon. I might not want to go back to them because of that, but then I will still have to at the end of the day because I wouldn't want to push my family away. I will accept my fact and move on.
Because life has got different faces that might make us want to give up on it at some point. But then, God always has a way of doing his thing. And I'm very sure that there's nothing that happens in life that he's not aware of. So I'd literally stick to facing my fate and doing my thing.
But if I'm lucky enough to come from a wealthy home, I will literally be happy, but still not fully happy because I will find it hard to mingle with them and also to be more comfortable with them at some point in time. It can never be like the way I relate to my family, whom I grew up knowing.
At the end of the day, if it falls to either way, I am definitely going to accept my fact that way and move on with life. Even though it can be very hard to do, I know deep down that nothing in life is balanced. So I wouldn't let it get to me that much.
SUMMARY
Accepting life when it throws itself at us and not letting it get to us by moving on is the biggest good we can do for ourselves in life.
Thank you for taking the time to go through my content, and I hope it was worth it, and I also hope you've learned lots of lessons from the community's weekly prompt. This post is in response to the #Hivenaija weekly contest, edition .