“Yesterday, I went out to hawk in the market and I sold three bags of sachet water. I was happy I sold a lot of sachet water, and I just wanted to go home and eat. I was hungry because I had eaten only in the morning.
When I came back home it was dark already and the father of the family I stay with started asking where I had been- he was shouting. Then he brought out the plates outside for me to wash. I wondered how I would be washing outside. But I think its okay.
My teacher said that, as long as you are living with a family that is not your own, any suffering you go through is not really suffering, but it’s a training. It’s a training on how you should run your own home when the time comes. So all I have to do now is be patient and endure.
But, I wonder why they don’t want to give their own children this same training .”
Credit: Henry Anumudu
The School of Life 