Episode One
My name is Rahman like I said, and you can call me Ramsey……I am from a family of eight; my dad and mum, and my five siblings (comprises of 3boys, and 2girls) plus me. I happen to be the baby of the house, my immediate sibling is five years older than me, and the first born in the house is fifteen years older than me. The distance is too much, so I am unable to disrespect any of them even if I want to.
The loss off my parents
I became an orphan at the age of seventeen, I just graduated from secondary school. Afterwards, my mum died few month later that same year; so that makes me a typical orphan (if that is the right word) because I had earlier lost my dad when I was eleven years. As an orphan, my philosophy about life started changing, I came to realise that life is actually not a “duck soup”. Though, I have never been a dependant to anyone except my parents. This actually made it difficult for me to approach people for anything including my siblings, I believe that I am not anybody’s responsibility but my parents’, now that that they are dead; I have to fend for myself.
My hope for admission processing into higher institution had a setback that year, because I had to figure out ways to go about it. Fortunately for me, my oldest siblings who has finished his service as corper, he had also secured an apartment instructed me to move in with him, I later moved in with him after so much persuasion because I never bought the idea. He was going to get married very soon and I can’t imagine myself living with him and his wife. My philosophy back then was that, he was going to curb me, there will be so many restrictions and that would definitely hinder my plans. And I was very right about my assumption, because that is what actually happened.
As an orphan, I don’t have to depend on anyone. Even if someone must help me, you just have to support me on my decisions. But reverse is the case, when I started living with my big bro. no free movement, I have to start thinking about reasons to give anytime I am going out, so many times I ended up staying back, due to lack of convincing reasons I gave to him. Truly, he took care of me but there are some things I couldn’t ask him but are necessary for me to have, though if I ask him; he would have gotten them for me but base on my school of thought I did not think it was necessary to ask him. For example: recharge cards, new wears, having my haircut etc…….you know those little-little things you provide for yourself as a youth or teenager.
He later got married got married in 2013, a year after my mum’s death. I was eighteen years then, so I started having problems living with them……but because of my philosophy, I scape through the frustration.
This is when the application of my intelligence started…….
it is going to be one episode per day......
