Thread by @RowlyDaDon

#ThrowbackThursday
WHAT MY PARENTS DID THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET

All through primary school I was the second best from behind until primary 5. As far back as I could remember (pry 1) I didn't know anything...I just wanted to play. I was a pure & unadulterated olodo.

My best friend then, Dayo, was the last in class. We were buddies, 2 correct olodos, lol.

When I got to primary 5, sometime during the early part of 1st term, my mom walked into my class. I startled & was wondering why she is here all of a sudden, not telling me before

I left home that she would be coming over. I somehow heard her whisper to my teacher, Mr Afolabi (God bless him wherever he is), that "Pls handle my son with iron hand."

Ah mogbe! What did I do? Truth is, I have been a burden to my mom as per my "olodoism".

It became a challenge; she would help me with my homeworks but na frustrate I go frustrate am laslas. Guess what? she was a teacher but still couldn't help my situation. Then she turned to God on my matter. I became a major prayer point.

Mr Afolabi began to truly handle

me with iron hand. chai, I chop cane no be small.

For those that score poorly in class work, he would flog but only me will chop double of what he is flogging others. So I was chopping cane in school, my mom was laying hands on my head & blessing my brain & life at home. lol

Somehow somehow, I sincerely don't know when I carried book & started reading; mathemathics began to make sense to me. 1st term, I rose from 26th out of 27 in class to 4th position.

This was a shock to the school management & Mr Afolabi especially for someone who has

been a perennial olodo. I was no longer a prayer point.

2nd term came & I came 2nd. I was happy I could do so well in class; even as a kid, my mom's burden & prayers started making sense to me. I got close to God, became born again & spoke in tongues for the first time

in primary 5 (1997).

When it was time for common entrance, I read extra. I went through my four-figure tables, all the formulae in my "mathematical set", I crammed them all & applied them. I did both the state & federal common entrance & I came top in my class, the

best result ever & I came out as one of the best in Lagos state.

My dad was moved to tears. He just lost his job few months back, so there was no money, but he packed all he had (about 2,000 naira) as at 1997 & went to Eko idumota to buy just one pair of black leather

shoes for me. I didn't know the worth per se as at then, I was just 10 years old, but I so much valued it cos I never had a shoe like that & it was a gift for the hard work.

When I grew older & I understood what 2k meant as at 1997, I would almost weep. God used my

parents to change my life forever.
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