In this life, the journey to a successful destination is different. What work for someone might not works for you and what works for you might not work for another person. We have our different times and seasons, location and places of reaching our destinies. My cousin brother left home to an unknown place for a period of four years without coming home. Infact not just that he refused to come home but he stop communicating home, like he doesn't call people at home, check on people at home and to know what's happening or going on with us at home. He only called one or two person or his friends that are still at home time to time. And most of the time wherever we asked his friends about him they will said it's been awhile they've heard from each other and at times even if we tried calling his phone number isn't connecting.
So, when he came home today, we were all shocked to see him. He doesn't looks bad or rough at all but he doesn't look that good like the way we knew him at home four years ago even though there's a level of growth in him .My parents welcomed him and were happy to see him, knowing fully now that he's alive. I saw him when he came through the gate and I ran and hugged him because we were very close while he was at home. We will go to football field together and played game together. I collected his bags and some loads package in a big bag and took it into the house and to my elder brother's room. Luckily at that particular time my sister was done cooking food, he sat down and food was served for him to eat before he could have some rest from his long journey. After he was done eating the food, he went and took his bathe and slept for some hours I was watching movies at the setting room, that's the parlor when he came in and sat down close to me in the same couch.
We started talking and gisting, exchanging pleasantries and talking about old times memories and he was asking me about some people in the community and about church programs over all this years. I told him some of the things that happened while he was away from house for four years. Some people in the community died, some traveled while some got married within and outside the community. And I later asked him why he turned his back on us and even me for this period of four years of being away from home. He looked at me in the eyes and said I will not understand. He said when he wanted to travel out he told my mother and father about his intention but they didn't agreed to it. But he has made up his mind and have planned within few days to traveled with some of his friends who they have make such travelling plans already.
The reason he left home without telling anyone at home was because my parents didn't approved of his journey and never supported the idea but his mind is made up that nothing will stop him from traveling for finding or looking for greener pastures far away from home. Then I said but when he left home to the place he traveled to, he should have called us and tell us he has traveled to a particular place so that we will know where exactly he is at that time. His response was that when he got there he called one of his friend and told him he has landed safely and told him never to let us his family knows where he traveled to, especially my parents.
I said well I understand my parents weren't in support of his journey but he should have called me just to let me know his whereabouts for our peace of mind sake because we got worried and wear off not knowing where he went to. He smiled and said he intentional refused to call me at that time because he knows if he called and told me where he traveled to, I will tell my parents about it if they asked me . I laughed out loud and said of course I will tell mum and Dad if I knew where you traveled to but you never called me for all this four years of being away from home and I didn't like it seriously. He told me he has it in his mind to call me later as he stayed there for some while. But after few months his phone got stolen at a beer parlor where him and his friends went to drink alcohol at that place. They drank the alcohol and got drunk without knowing how it happened that he couldn't found his phone again. That's how he lost his phone and everything in the phone gone especially his contacts.
When that happened to him, he doesn't have much money to buy bigger phone but he bought small button phone that he will be using to make calls. Buying new phone and new SIMs has made him started looking for people phone's numbers but doesn't got it. He later got his friend number and asked him to send my number to him but his friend is not longer in the community. He travelled as well but to a different place. There's no one that will give him my number even though he didn't make any attempt to get my parents numbers because he knows they will speak or talk to him about his journey they didn't approved of it and he was avoiding such kind of conversation from them.
Having a small phone that can not access social media especially Facebook has become a big problem to him over there. If only he has a big phone that he can access social media Facebook he could have chat me or some of the people in the community to send my number to him while he was there. And besides he thought to himself the reason he left home is to hustle and find greener pastures not to have big phone this early after his phone was stolen. The mind to get a big phone wasn't longer in him . He continues hustling and working in different companies, cleaning hostels, washing people's cars for money. He said he did all he could to have something to feed himself and make a living over there.
He said staying outside home things has not been easy for him, he has to do everything by himself and for himself. It's seems nobody really care about you outside there because everyone is busy looking for what he or she will do to make a living. And I responded back to him you faced all this trail because you traveled out without the approval and consent of mother and father. You didn't received their prayers and wishes of good luck and blessings. You left without allowing them blessing you . Our parents are our guidances and protectors in this life, as a child if you want to succeed you must respect your parents and honored them.
Your parents prayers will pray for you and wish you good fortunes and it will work out good for you. The same way if your parents pray bad prayers and wishing you bad luck that's how everything you do and whenever you go, nobody will help you and you will not find favour with anyone. As children we should learn and respect our parents decision in life. They had experience more than us and they sees far and ahead of us. And I told him again, his phone got stolen because he was drunk at a beer parlor. That's the effects of drunkiness and alcohol. I adviced him to better leave alcohol before it finishing him and make him lose everything he have .
And finally I told him to better meet our parent later in the night or after a day or two and apologized properly over his misbehaviour and conduct and asked for their forgiveness.He told me he has it on his mind to do so and begged for his misbehaviour for being away from home for four years without coming home and proper keeping constant communication with them and everyone at home in the name of trying to avoid them. All of us were happy seeing him alive and healthy. Some people travelled like that and didn't come back home again. Their family doesn't know their whereabouts, either they're alive or dead. But my cousin is alive and he has came back we are excited to see him.
That’s such an emotional story, you really captured both the joy of his return and the lessons in respecting parents and family bonds. I’m glad he came back safe and sound after all those years.
Oh yeah, we are all excited and happy he came back home safe and sound. Respecting parents as a child is a thing worth doing for.
You did a perfect presentation here thanks for sharing my brother
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The most important thing was that he was able to trace his family back.
Thank goodness he came to check up on home once again
That's the joy sir, we are happy he came home alive.