Some people are angels in human form (#179).
I was born and grew up without a father and came from a very poor family where my mother all she was good at drinking and smoking.
When my friends, parents will go and pick them from school my mother will not even think to pick me up she will stay drinking and smoking.
When I came home, asked her why she did not pick me up, she would shout loudly at me that would make me fear her.
Every time I ask for food, she will tell me to check the fridge but when I get there I will not meet any food.
I would seat and cry as I was starving, I was just that 8-year-old boy who could not do any but drink water and find "Garri" to eat.
My mother was jobless has nothing to do, not even think of going out to find a job at least we can live an average life and eat good food.
Principle used to send me home because I was not able to pay my school fees until I got a scholarship for my running skills.
At my time, no one around 10-15 can run more than me, I was the best under ten runner in the school.
At age 12, my secondary school principle asks me to join the school athletic academic and my scholarship will continue till university.
But mom, never in support of me focusing on becoming a runner, she always discouraged me to give up on my dream to become an atlant.
My mom at my age (12) can not offer me food to eat because I choose to follow my dream.
I used to go to the closest restaurant where I used to get leftover food from the dust bin, just to get something to eat, I even took some home for my mom.
Even when I took the food home, she was going to accuse me of stealing, she said I can only eat that type of food when I steal from someone.
But guess what, she will almost beat me to eat most of the food from me (hmmm), mother is something else.
One day I went to get some food from the waste bin, I already know the time the chef is going to throw food into the bin.
But on that day the chef did not throw food earlier because he was observing and wanted to talk to me.
When I saw him coming I had to hide, but he already knew I was hiding from him, he called on me and invited me in to his restaurant.
He asks me why I am picking food from the dust bin I explain, he asks me to promise him if I keep on doing my best and never give up on my dream he will give me free food.
Unfortunately, one day I came back home from training, I saw my mom leaving the house with his useless boyfriend who drinks and smokes with her nothing else to offer her.
She asks me to live with her if I don't am on my own, but the man at the restaurant shows up and asks me to stay with him and he can be my passional coach.
That is how my dream of becoming a running start improved, at age (15) I became the country's fastest running.
Never the less I start representating my country, I gain recognition all over the world, at last I achieve my dream.
Some people will come in to your life to add value to you, some to teach you a lesson, some for just a short time but always learn from them all.
I wish you a happy weekend.