Mistakes and Miracles

 Mistakes and miracles

This happened to me personally.

As I grew older as a youth I never thought I was sometimes wrong, I thought I was always right. Not until I made one simple but fatal mistake I will leave to regret for the remaining days of my life.

So it happened when I was growing up when my parents will say to me a certain thing is wrong and I will feel dey don't want me to try it because they have done it before yes but was it a safe road to trade?

I became addicted to smoking marijuana and cigarettes at an early stage of my life and my parents never found out not until I could no more control the urge I have for it. Day by day my attitude to my parents started changing gradually and without brake.

I had the wrong set of friends, we never had a time to tell ourselves what tomorrow's gonna be like. We became wild and fighting became part of our daily routine.

But later when I started realizing the road I was trailing was not really going to go well with my friends I backed out and started doing things alone or with one particular friend. So a day came when I decided to start selling drugs and I had a girlfriend who does not matter where this money comes from, she just supports me and fund me even to the point of using her school fees or my school fee either ways let the money be made.

I set out on my journey to go get my first ever dugs for sale on a journey of about 400 kilometers and back. But it so caught up with me on my way coming back with my goods in my simple hand bag thinking am ditching the officers of drugs law agency, I was arrested with the goods [drugs] I went for.

I spent a month in their custody with none of my family knowing where i was, the only number I had up heart was my cousin sisters number which I was able to get after a long run, she put up calls and told my family what had happened and where I was.

From then I was charged to court and tried but the trial lasted for about two years dragging the case. My girlfriend got pregnant and I never knew not until I was remanded in prison for five months and I was responsible for it. My family did all they could to get me out of the case selling all our family possessions which included our family lands and other posessions, my siblings where taken out of school for my sake they stayed home until the case was over because of expenses levied on the case.

Now I have a daughter "Joy" and my sibling are back in school though I lost my educational pursuits due to this case but I made sure it was not the end for me, I changed up and picked my pieces from where I stopped and changed the course I  was traveling for the good of me and my families. I lost my degree and went for diploma. Now I am okay being a freelancer and having my poultry farm to live from.

I call it a mistake but in the long run a miracle, because I have really changed and am not the person I was thank heavens.