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Our parents only respect the same yahoo boys you condemn more than us who do legit but don’t bring big money home – Fans tells Charles Awuzie
“Baba, our parents only respect the same yahoo boys you condemn more than us who do legit but don’t bring big money home. Baba, you don’t know what we are suffering. I go soon enter street at least make my parents respect me too.”
Me: (sobs). Dear young blood, my name is Charles Awuzie. I tell you my truth without packaging. I have been where you are. When I came to South Africa, I connected with some varsity mates who also relocated here. In 2 years, those friends picked big money from the streets – ego mbute. I mean millions of Rands. They bought the latest cars and came to Nigeria to flex their money. They painted Nigeria red, built houses for their family, f**ked people’s girlfriends/wives and came back to South Africa. Their names were mentioned in several highlife songs and they reigned for a while.
My people back home heard of some of them and started thinking I was ‘bewitched’. They called me and told me how “my mates” came home and painted the city red while nobody was seeing my “brake lights”. I laughed. I warned them to stop telling me such stories because I was busy studying. And as a student, I need focus and not competition. At that point, I was training on Linux-From-Scratch – LFS. My dream was to build my own Linux OS from scratch. So while they wanted me to come build mansions, I just wanted to build Systems. And upto this point, despite building systems which currently serve hundreds of thousands of users, I still have no passion to build any mansion in my village. It doesn’t matter the pressure anyone puts on me, I am a very FOCUSED PERSON.
Those guys who picked big money in those days are mostly broke today. The house they built in Nigeria are dilapidated. Some of them can’t afford rent in SA today while others are in jail or dead. But I’m still here, building one day at a time.
Listen, every human being has peer pressure. As long as you have Peers, you will experience peer pressure. Your parents are also under peer pressure hence they always compare you to “your Age mates” or siblings. Please don’t let their desperation become a distraction. Focus on your purpose. A person’s life does not consist only of how much money they have but how they live out their unique purpose on earth.
Focus on your purpose. The only reason why I make money is to fund PURPOSE – not to show off or please parents and society.
Dear young blood, I know you have pressures. We all do. But don’t allow external pressures to distort your convictions. Stick to your unique journey and build one day at a time.
My name is Charles Awuzie and I encourage parents to stop being a source of pressure to their children. Stop expecting your children to achieve in one year what you couldn’t achieve in your lifetime.
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I ruined my younger sister’s wedding. I’m not proud of it but it was necessary and i have no regrets
so, my immediate younger sister actually, got engaged months ago, & we were all preparing for her wedding which was to hold yesterday. I sponsored the wedding with a sum of 1.5 million naira. Her & her husband-to-be were so excited, continually thanking me every time time we met.
Despite the fact that my parents usually make mockery of me for not having a life partner at my late thirties, I was still happy for my sister & did my best to support her marriage.
The day of the wedding came; the congregation was already filled up in church as the Senior Pastor conducted the wedding. When he was almost through, he paused for a while, faced the large congregation and continue;
“Is there anyone here who has a reason why this union between these 2 shouldn’t hold?” the Senior Pastor asked, the church became silent for a while; the congregation kept looking at the back to see who would make a statement.
“The bride, is carrying my child!” a random man with a full beard said, as he stormed into the church; all the congregations stared at him with their mouths open &bin shock.
“He’s lying! I don’t know this man; I don’t know him!” my younger sister said, bursting into tears immediately. I felt really pity for her, watching her cry the way she did in total confusion
“How am I lying? Remember when we made love together?” The random man brought out some pictures, threw them towards the altar. “I will come back for my unborn child!” The man said, as he ran out of the church immediately.
The Pastor checked the pictures & found out that the pictures contained my sister’s nudes. My sister’s husband-to-be fainted immediately.
That was how my sister’s wedding got ruined. My sister cried bitterly, as I & most of her friends kept consoling her. I felt pity for her, but I had to do what i had to do to relieve myself from future mockery & pressure. I have no regrets. So many people really do not understand what it feels like for a younger sister to marry first, not everyone can handle such depression that comes after, i guess “
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Never forget that while you were crying for that person, that person was smiling with another
While you couldn’t sleep, that person slept with another person.
While you were crying every night, that person was going to sleep peacefully.
While you were waiting for that message, that person was sending messages with someone else.
And I did all this without feeling guilt, or concern for you.
The truth is that sometimes an apology isn’t enough, not even an apology, or a sorry. Because many times people feel bad just because they’re discovered, not because they’ve hurt you or despised you.
When you truly love someone you’re loyal to them in front and behind their back.
Forgive if you can, but if you can’t forgive, don’t do it. There are actions that do not deserve to be forgiven nor should be forgiven, nor lies, nor contempt, nor disrespect, nor unfaithfulness, nor betrayal.
And if you have to cry do it, but then get up and move on. That’s the best and only revenge that doesn’t hurt anyone
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I WAS ALMOST LYNCHED IN ABA… UNTIL SOMEONE RECOGNISED ME FROM ISSAKABA” Nwoke (ISSAKABA) Mike Ogundu
“It was a sunny day in Line A at Ariaria International market of Aba, Abia State in Nigeria
I was just at the wrong place at the wrong time because I cannot still phantom how it happened.
All I know was a sudden voice that just shouted “Na him be that man wey collect the bag”
Before Jack Robinson, I had already found myself on the ground.
I was receiving lots of sl@ps, even when I was till trying to ask what the matter is.
Someone was already looking for fuel to lit before another random person recognised me and shouted “NWOKE! AH ISSAKABA NWOKE!!
They all stopped instantly and gave me a voice.
Please stop jungle just!ce, please it’s not good.
#Afrocania #virals
