Greetings to you all at weekend community, i was meditating lately about some challenges of life i have faced and the ones i have listened to from different people but the truth is, if we're going to succeed in life it is so expedient to learn some very valuable lessons at every phase of our lives to help us scale through life challenges.
The story i will be sharing is so likened to the wek85 topic @galenkp/we85-post-topics-learning-curiosity-and-mysteries and i decided to pick topic number 2
"Tell us about a time you have learnt a very valuable lesson. What was it? The circumstances around it, and how did the learning process go and what was the result"?
I have learnt some valuable lessons in this story and i will like you also to pick your own lessons from it.
Some years back i moved with my aunty to an estate at lekki Lagos Nigeria, there is this couple i met at the neigbourhood. They have been waiting for the fruit of the womb for 10 years now.
I got to know them so quickly from the many stories said about them. Different stories of jest and simulation.
It had been said, they will have no child because the wife has no womb.
Some even said she damaged her womb due to series of abortion, Some even said is as a result of contraceptives she has used during her single days.
You see people can coin out names to any scenarios that happens to unprecedented events. They make up stories for one's pain and ordeal.
After some years, the mother in-law suggested to her son to marry another wife, she even make an attempt to bring in another lady for her son, creating shameful drama. It was such a 'sad experience' that was painful to watch by everyone who saw it that day.
But the man held his wife and took every belongings thrown out back to the house.
The lady that accompanied mama left them before the whole drama ended as the man didn’t concur.
What the man told his mother, I will never forget all my life.
He said, he is not married to her to have kids, but he is, because of happiness.
The mother got angry. She vowed never to step into his son's house anymore.
It takes a sincere and true man to handle situations like that and one who knows that his wife is comes first in all. Not taking any respect from mothers.
But whatever happened thereafter; no one can explain.
This same woman took-in and the whole neighborhood were silenced.
At her appointed time, she gave birth to triplets.
And that same mother inlaw that vowed never to step into their house was first to get to the hospital. Wearing a big smile, moving here and there, very lively.
Lessons learnt
See! People will mock you when you are going through tough challenges.
They'll make up stories that was never yours.
People often find joy when you're going through hard times.
But whatever they have decided to say or do. Don't let it move you.
Remain unbroken still, even with their jest and witticisms.
What you need to do is to hang on and keep believing.
The greatest wrong is when you admit defeat yourself.
Their negative remarks changes nothing but your own remark about yourself changes everything.
Believe this too shall pass.
And it will, it is a matter of time.
Just like the mother inlaw; those who have ruled you out will come back and they will be put to shame.
All images are mine.