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We all know how sweet being a child is, one thing I so much love with being a child is the freedom attached to it. There is no worry, no fear, no consequences all actions whether good or bad were right before our eyes until you get caught and given some lashes before your sense will register to you that it was really bad hehe.
As a child, i always love to dare a thing at the expense of anything. once I child decided to know the end of a matter just forget about it, either by crook or hook, i will surely get my way through. That was how I spoiled a lot of electronics at my home those days because I was trying to discover what the white man deposited inside hehe. My life as a kid is something I wish I could bring back. Unfortunately growth took away some of those freedom, and maturity has taken away the joy thereof.
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My childhood was full of experiences, I really explored the world around me during those days. There were only few things I didn't do as a child, I had just the right kind of environment to carry out my experiment, I also had the very right kind of friends who were always there to give me support to achieve my childish dreams hehe. I did a lot of crazy things as a kid, I took a lot of risks which some almost claimed my life. I was a known fighter those days, my friends use to call me odeshi (resistance/ bullet proof) . Those days my aunt sells palm wine, if I sip a little ahhhh! I become a Superman, you can hit me as hard as you may desire but I will never cry or even respond to you, sometimes I used to give my body to be beaten by my friends to prove to them that pains don't penetrate my skin hehe! But do you know something? It was all pretence, that thing dey pain die 😂😂. Those days were memorable indeed.
I have a clear picture of most of my silly behaviors, when I saw this topic I was even confused on how to go about it because I wish I could just share them all hehe. My childhood days was a comedy, though most of the things I did were dangerous and would have led me to a very bad kind of life if I had sustained them until now, but thank God for the change.
Let me not go into long talking, one of the outstanding memory I had as a child was during a holiday season, all my friends were at home. Our community was full with kids, except you don't want to play that time, there were many options, different kinds of play. Those were the days I would go out in the evening and return in the night, when I get back home dad will flog nonsense out of my life, but for where? Hehe I would still return the following evening. I have this friend Abeson by name, he was my best friend those days and he still is till date😁, he seem to be more exposed than I am, though we were peers but his own environment was bad compared to mine. it exposed him to a lot of things. I learnt most of the things I was experimenting then through him, any trending thing, he learns he quickly share the update with me hehe, that guy was a cheerful giver of updates. I was someone who is obsess with learning new things, so I don't care whether they are good or bad, once it is a new things just bring it here, I will gladly learn. Meanwhile the parents of that guy thought I was the one influencing him because my aunt sells palm wine and people do a lot of things when they get intoxicated with wine. I have seen a lot of crazy behaviors by grown ups in drunken state. People thought I was already corrupt by my environment not knowing I was very innocent hehe.
One blessed day, my friend visited me and came along with an update hehe, guess what it was? This time around it is about smoking, he told me how they used to wrap empty papers and smoke, how that one of our friends then use to smoke cigarettes anytime the elderly sent him to get it. I was like wow. So how does it feel? You know children, soon I started imagining how the taste looks like, how it feels like to bring smoke out of your nostrils wow!! I was already anxious, I remembered all the styles of smoking I watched from Nollywood movies then, there was one trending movie then, I don't know if you have watched it before, the title is New Jerusalem, that movie almost took me to hell hehe. I remembered all the vices in that movies and I wanted to be tough, to be tough I saw that people in the movie smoked, Kai!! After all those imaginations, I decide that I was going to give smoking empty paper a try. But then my friend said that now they have upgraded, they no longer smoke empty papers but cow dung heheh😂😂Don't laugh too much please, cow dung? Yes cow dung😁😁.
Since we reside in a local environment, cow dung was nothing hard to get, we just went behind our house and cow dung was everywhere because there was a farm there, Fulani herdsmen use to come and graze their cattle there. Mind you it was dried cow dung, I am not giving you a formula oo, my hand no dey Heheh 😂😂😂. After we got the dung, we grinded it with stones you know kids , I quickly went inside and got two pieces of papers, I gave one to my friend and held one to myself. We fetched the dung and wrapped it like weed and we looked for a corner where no one could see us and we light the stuff and started the needful. When I put mine in the mouth to inhale the smoke from the paper, lo and behold, it was as if I invited the dung in my mouth, all the dung left the paper and reside in my mouth instantly 😂😂 , I over did it hehe, what a learner. immediately I spat it out and throw the paper away. My friend laughed hard at me that day but I pleaded with him not to tell our friends about what happened because they will use it to tease me.
By the grace of God, after that day, I never attempted smoking again, God helped me, I was still stubborn but not with smoking, how about my friend Abeson? He was so helped of God that he is now a gospel music minister in his local church, that guy miraculously fell in love with music , I don't know if there is any musical instrument he doesn't know how to play. Guess our destinies are in the hand of God, the enemy can only try to spoil us but God has the final say, let us never write men off because of their current condition, people can change. No condition is permanent as it is been said, the smoker of yesterday can be a very good man tommorow, we never can tell.
In conclusion, each time I talk about my childhood experience I always give little advise for parents, because every character a child exhibits is the responsibility of the parent, I am soliciting, parents watch your children's movement, know who the friends of your kids are. Your kid needs freedom yes but there should be restriction too. Monitor your kids well, the world is full of evil.
Thank you so much for reading 😍🥰
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