Hello dear amazing and beautiful friends. Welcome back to hscp-wk 37. This week is to me very special because we just concluded the celebration of Easter.
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Let's delve into the topic for the week. Lost opportunities is a topic that I know must affect everyone in one way or the other. No one can say that in this life, he or she has never for once faced disappointment or lost opportunities. Some times we get it back and sometimes it works through our very eyes and never look back again. Everyone has heard a taste of this. For this week I will be sharing something very peculiar to me. This is a true life story about myself and the opportunity that I lost and yearn to get it back with tears years later, but only had a glimpse of it.
Growing as a child I came from a family that never saw education as something that one should chase with all strength. Some are opportuned to go while some never had the opportunity and it was never a problem to us. I fail in the part of the children that lost the opportunity to go to school because I never knew it's value at that time.
My Aunt always say to me that her reasons for sending me to school is just because she wants me to be able to read the address of my boyfriend when I will be invited over. This is the same lady who asked me to stop schooling because there was no need. She said also that education is only for the brilliant student and I was then not among the brilliant ones. I left school when I got tired of hearing her complain everyday that she was just wasting her money on me. She said that I was a disappointment and she can't continue to pay my school fees.
Years later I realized too late that I can't even stand near my primary school mate again. At that time they have graduated from high school preparing for higher institution. I started desiring to go back to school, but it was too late because everyone including myself have given up hope on me as long as education is concerning. I later went back to school after 25 years out of school and of course it can't be the same. I struggled all through to understand what I would have just comprehended easily as a child. I already had kids then who needs my attention and a husband too who I need to be available for. I also had my business to take care of so that I can pay part of the bills at home.