Greetings!
One thing I have so far discovered about life is that life would not give us what we deserve, in the positive way or the other way round. Atimes, life happens to us in a very a way that we even can't define it and that's when we will be asking ourselves what we have done wrong to find ourselves in a particular situation or what we've done right to record the unmerited success we have achieved. That's just the mystery of life.
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So, this life is a life of mystery that's full and filled with ups and downs. Having said so much about life and its mystery, I would like to share my experience about life in response to the topic of the prompt.
A long time ago when I had no one to come to my rescue after the death of my mum, I decided to join a construction company as a contract staff in order to save money to pursue my higher education.
So when I got to the company, I was assigned to the transport department of the company and in that department, I was able to find my way through and earned myself a good pay for services to the company.
But along the line, the manager of the company invited me to his office that, there's a contribution that's going in the company and that he would want me to join and just because i was there to make money for my educational pursuit, I decided to join the train and at the end of every month, i used to contribute about 75% of my salary to the contribution.
However, when it's my turn to be a beneficiary of the contributory scheme, everything scattered and I was not given a dime from all I had contributed. I made serious effort to be able to collect even my own share of the money, but all to no avail and this got me frustrated and lost hope regarding my educational pursuit as all I had budgeted for it had sinked with the contribution.
This was so painful to me because it made all my effort become useless, but what can I do as a young boy who has nobody. So, the period was my most challenging period and it's so tough for me as there was no hope at sight.
But suddenly, something unexpected happened to me and this time around, what happened was not in connection with the construction company.
It's one of my dad's friends that called me and asked after my welfare. Although my dad used to talk about his friends and how close they were, I personally have not seen nor talked to him before now. So, when i got his call on my phone, i was like who's this, reason being that i didn't have his number on my phone. So, seeing a strange foreign number calling me was quite shocking.
So, when I saw the call, I summoned courage and answered it and the voice from the other end was not so familiar to those voices I have heard or used to hear on a daily basis. So, it's the man the introduced himself to me as my dad's friend and he told me that he collected my phone number from my dad. He greeted me and we discussed at length.
Thereafter, he asked about my welfare and what I was to and I told him everything. After telling him everything, he promised and pledged to see me through the journey of my life and that's everything.
Although, I have been promised a million times before without anything concrete coming out of those failed promises and I had thought that the man would be the same, but to be sincere, this man pledged and promised was quite different from those previous ones I had had before as he fulfilled his to the letter.
So, his fulfillment of his promises to me made me fulfill all my life goals with ease and also it made me forget all my past sufferings most especially from what i had experienced at the construction in the past.
The coming of the man brought about ease and total transformation to me and till now I'm still enjoying the impact of his coming into my life. So, one thing that amazed me most is that, to forget our suffering is as easy and simple as ABC. So, when I began to enjoy the goodies of life, it's as if I had never suffered before.
In conclusion, this life is always full and filled with ups and downs. But one thing is that the situation can change anytime. My prayer is that our situation will change from negative to positive.
This is my entry to the sciFi Multiverse weekly prompt
Thanks for reading.
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