FUTURE MEDITATION
By: Ayuba Muhydeen
Under a cool wandering flowery tree with many branches of hands that shaded across a pole behind a popularity known school teacher’s house throughout the community of With Love We Stand, sat Blessing after her arrival an hour ago from school. It was uncommon habit of her. The last time she was seen there was on Thursday when some of her father co-workers came to see over them due to her father sickness. This evening was so different, she was alone and it seemed she was soliloquizing.
Is life sweet or bitter? Can one really live this life without a problem? Is it possible for me to become somebody of wealth worth calling respected by this community tomorrow? Which type of life do I wanted to live? These were some of the psychological questions that pondered on Blessing’s heart as she kept lonely gazing at a steady senseless object in front of her by the pole. These thoughts had developed many chasms that make her torpor.
“Incredibly” said Mr. Nageri after some minutes of wonder, “because you are told by your teacher that all the successful people think about their future which prepared them for the future challenges, made you out of your mind that you couldn’t hear a word until you are shoved?” Yes, that was was supposed to be said for a little girl of her age. Blessing was a bright slim tall girl, she was about twelve and thirteen years old with a curling dark heir. She has been said to have a smiling face like her father though her mother Titi would deny that because she always claimed to have her resembled her. “If it’s of no use for me to brainstorm about my future now, then you are responsible for my future failure ” said Blessing calmly. Undisclosed to Blessing, Mr. Nageri had liked her for that situation, after a wise words from Blessing she was appreciated with a warming cheerfulness that showed her happiness.
Blessing is now in S S 2, and second term in the school.
Monday morning at school, she was called out at the assembly ground by the principal who had known her for excellent performance and intellectual speech which not only benefit her colleagues but also the school teachers. “Without much ado” said the principal after a nodding of approval to her weekly quotes recitation, “you are a wonderful student that serves as a good example for the rest” stopped the principal still wondering about the quotation read by Blessing some minutes back, ringing in her head thus: “The notable chiefly successful people will always tell you what you have better do: but the unsuccessful ones will emphatically tell you what you will never be able to do. Mark the difference.” It seems the difference is what the principal was marking. After a couple of minutes he said ” The school, from now on, will be responsible for your school fees and your school materials. “Hurray” shouted the students as everyone was happy to hear her been crowned with this appreciation.
Two years later, as expected, she has passed out with one of the best results graduated from the school. She was now in the university studying Medicine and one among the most brilliant students there. The life now has turned green for her and her years back dreams are now fulfilling itself gradually. “This is how I shall train my children when I start my family. I want my children’s life bright like Blessing’s ” said one of Blessing’s friends who had neglected her advice while at school.