Wasted Life
Based on a true-life story. There was a young lady named Ruth, she was born into a wealthy family. Her parents had six children, one male and five females, she was the fifth. Ruth never lacked, not even for once in her life, because of the wealthy family she happened to be born into, hence, never struggled for anything in her life, a fertile land to kick off on.
She attended a very expensive boarding secondary school, money was never her problem. On one occasion, her father had caught her with a guy in a bar during school hours, far away from the boarding school. Everybody wondered how and why she will sneak out of boarding school to meet a guy. She spent her secondary school days clubbing and partying, with the huge amount of money her father sends to her consistently. Ruth used to receive bunch of strokes from the parent and the elder siblings because of her reckless living, still she didn’t care. Her WAEC was nothing to write home about as she failed woefully. She had to register for the examination again the following year, in a school where examination malpractice reigned supreme, and that’s how she passed.
Ruth was sent to the university to read computer science, and as usual, she did not take it seriously. Seven years in the university and she has not still graduated from a four years course, everyone became tired of pushing her and gave up on her. All her siblings had graduated, and some were married, including the last born, but she had nothing to show forth. Her father was super worried and disappointed. She told her father about a one-year professional computer science course in Lagos, collected a huge sum of one million naira and left. Unknown to them, she took the money to go and start up a business with her boyfriend in another town. She soon got pregnant and made it known to her family, that she won’t be coming home and that she is with the man she wants to marry. You can sense the bitterness in her father, but she didn’t care.
One year after Ruth gave birth, changes began to set in; her boyfriend got a new girlfriend and brought her to the house to live with them. Ruth objected and the boyfriend emptied her bank account, collected everything she had and sent her out of the house without anything, not even her phone. She managed to find her way back home, but was rejected. Heavy depression and frustration came on her to the extent that she had a critical mental problem, she became half mad and refused to eat. Stayed in one position for days, crying always, and narrating her story to whoever cared to listen. Slimmed down as the days go by, and before anyone knew it, her light was out, Ruth died. A life that had all what it takes to be one of the best, wasted miserably by the life owner. She was warned, but she refused to heed to it, and ended like she never existed.
She attended a very expensive boarding secondary school, money was never her problem. On one occasion, her father had caught her with a guy in a bar during school hours, far away from the boarding school. Everybody wondered how and why she will sneak out of boarding school to meet a guy. She spent her secondary school days clubbing and partying, with the huge amount of money her father sends to her consistently. Ruth used to receive bunch of strokes from the parent and the elder siblings because of her reckless living, still she didn’t care. Her WAEC was nothing to write home about as she failed woefully. She had to register for the examination again the following year, in a school where examination malpractice reigned supreme, and that’s how she passed.
Ruth was sent to the university to read computer science, and as usual, she did not take it seriously. Seven years in the university and she has not still graduated from a four years course, everyone became tired of pushing her and gave up on her. All her siblings had graduated, and some were married, including the last born, but she had nothing to show forth. Her father was super worried and disappointed. She told her father about a one-year professional computer science course in Lagos, collected a huge sum of one million naira and left. Unknown to them, she took the money to go and start up a business with her boyfriend in another town. She soon got pregnant and made it known to her family, that she won’t be coming home and that she is with the man she wants to marry. You can sense the bitterness in her father, but she didn’t care.
One year after Ruth gave birth, changes began to set in; her boyfriend got a new girlfriend and brought her to the house to live with them. Ruth objected and the boyfriend emptied her bank account, collected everything she had and sent her out of the house without anything, not even her phone. She managed to find her way back home, but was rejected. Heavy depression and frustration came on her to the extent that she had a critical mental problem, she became half mad and refused to eat. Stayed in one position for days, crying always, and narrating her story to whoever cared to listen. Slimmed down as the days go by, and before anyone knew it, her light was out, Ruth died. A life that had all what it takes to be one of the best, wasted miserably by the life owner. She was warned, but she refused to heed to it, and ended like she never existed.
