Thread by @GbengaWemimo

They were her first two children or shall we say her first two living children
She gave birth to the first in 1950
She birthed the second in 1957
In between them, she had three children but they were all still births
For the first child, she went to the local herbalist to check

His future
She was told he would be poor and mostly unsuccessful in life
The second child however was revealed to be the rich one
The blessed one
Her husband was a believer, he loved all his children
She didn’t tell him what she discovered when she went to consult the runes of

fortune
He would be very upset with her for doing such a thing
She really wanted to love the two children equally but she realised she couldn’t
The one that was revealed as poor was blunt, uncontrollable and unyielding
The boy just couldn’t stand her
The second son was more like

her
He was gentle and very dear to her heart
He was exceptionally brilliant too, a mathematics prodigy
The runes were right
The second son was a millionaire by the age of 29
He had studied electrical engineering and gotten a job with NEPA
By the time he was 30, he was married

And Expecting children while his older brother was still struggling to get a degree.
The older one had travelled to Lagos at 13
His father, her husband, decided the favouritism she was showing the younger one was too much and could affect the older one negatively
He sent his son

to live with his younger brother in Lagos
He felt that would give the young boy some balance
Of course, it didn’t
The younger brother’s wife turned the boy to a housemaid and made him attend evening school while he hawked palm oil for her in the morning
He got a job as a clerk at

The railway at 18 and worked his way out of that house
By the time he did evening school and started writing jamb, his younger brother had travelled abroad and built two houses
Just the way the runes predicted
She hated to see it but her husband kept working hard to support the

Unfortunate son
He would give anything to support this son to achieve the next thing in life which for him were so effortful and in her opinion was like flogging a dead horse
At 40 this son got a first degree and was advised to proceed to M.Sc
He did
To pay his

fees, his father sold three of his big goats and a ram
His mother almost had an apoplectic shock
Somehow he did it
Slow and steady but he got a PhD at 47
His father was proud of him
His mother didn’t know what the big deal was (She was a non-literate) and saw little value in

Education
He got married at 48
His younger one already had two teenagers by this time
He had taken it slowly and it had paid off
He started working as a lecturer with a federal university
He started travelling abroad, living the good life
His mother still didn’t see anything

good in him
She would say to whoever cared to hear it that “Her one and true son was the prodigy and the other was was Simeon who came to slave in this world
The younger son lost his job
He was arrested by a govt agency because he got involved in some illegal deals
He was thrown

In jail for two years
His mother cried over and over again
When the second son was eventually released from prison he had lost everything
The job, the fame, the money, the houses
The older brother continued to wax stronger in life, career and marriage
In that two years while his

brother was imprisoned the older one had built his first house and settled down to life in a glorious way
But he didn’t forget the things his mother said to him
Her words cut him to the quick all the time
A few years later, their father died
He recalled the days of suffering and

How his father held on to him to in his passing moment
He decided he would do something great to immortalise his father
He raised some money and decided to build a public library
His mother and siblings came around for the launch
I she.
The event started
He told his story

Thanked God for all that he had seen and said “His father was the best
His mother became uncomfortable with the flowery talk
She said “You brought your father to live by your words and I could as well be dead”
He tried to explain to her that it was not intended to be that way

He just wanted to celebrate his father
His mother was livid
She refused to greet him or accept his gifts
When the ground breaking for the project was over, his younger brother sent him a message asking why he treated their mother so disparagingly
His younger brother said “That is

The greatest woman that we will ever have as our mother
Be grateful”
He laughed
He understood what his younger brother was saying
He saw one side of their mother while he was shown the other
In his opinion

PS: The runes we’re world, the rejected stone became the chief corner

stone
This woman backed the wrong candidate to succeed and even though he did, it didn’t last
It is the blessing of the older one that the entire family is depending on
Rather than apologise, the woman is claiming the son is an ingrate for not treating her like the best mother

In the world
The younger brother is also angry that his older brother is not treating their mother like the best mother in the world
He sent his older brother a message a few days ago via WhatsApp
The brother got offended and wrote the younger brother a letter reminding him of

how their mother treated him like a slave while she showered all her love on him.
He said he had been giving her monthly allowance and ensuring she is comfortable but he wouldn’t pretend she was what she was not.
The younger brother called the brother in Jeans and T-shirt.

He didn’t want his mother to be sad over the issue and he knew his brother was upset
A meeting was called and the Holy Spirit stepped into the matter
The mother told the story and apologised for believing the runes
The older son forgave his mother and the three of them met the

Holy Spirit.
(Their father had died in 2002, at that time the older brother was still poor
He said they didn’t even give him a canopy to host his friends when his father died because he couldn’t contribute enough money!)
The Holy Spirit took over and all the hatchets were buried!

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