Lovers Story: Brother Samson and Sister Debbie 3
When the situation of the room remained the same without changes to the room, despite repeated complaints made to the agent as well as the landlord, Samson decided to leave the room after the end of the third month, because his mind was not settled and coupled with the climatic reports that there would be heavy rain in the Polyglot Island that he year, he sees his continue to live in the room as putting a fire on the roof top and going to bed.
Parental Counsel
He told his parents about it and they told him that he is seeing another facet of life. He has been exposed to a facet when in the University and other institutions of higher learning that he has been to before. Another facet of life was experienced by him when he was serving the republic and when he was working with the company that relieved him off his duties when he was sick. “All those places exposed you to other phases of life”, his father said, telling him that through such phases he has gained experiences and he will continue to meet with such in the world he therefore needs to prepare his mind for such.
One thing that I however want you to know is that no matter what it is that you have experienced that has been on the negative side of life from people, what you think ought not to be so, what you think it could only be imagined that experienced, but which unfortunately you have experienced from the hands of people, cruel and wicked beings, you must not allow those unsavory experiences that you have experienced to get into your head such as to alter your character, such as to make you become terrible person, wicked person, dangerous person deviating from what you have been groomed to become by your mother and I since you have been begotten. You must not transfer those things experienced from the hands of the wicked beings in the world to other people you shall come across in life.
What you need to do is, learn from those things, learn from what they do to you and use that to shape the world, your world. Having known the negative, and how people act in some instances, let that become a template for which you will form another normal template which you will use to act normally to those you shall come across in your lifetime. Never should you forget that the bible says we should not pay evil with evil, but we should rather use good to conquer evil.
His mother added that you must always use the golden principle as found in the book of Luke chapter 6 in the Holy book that you wish that men do unto you so ought you to do unto them. The speaker in the book, who is our Lord Jesus has also passed through the world as we are also passing through now and he has experienced terrible things in the hands of the wicked people of the world and he knows that there would be every propensity for us all to want to pay the wicked people back in their own coins that is why he said we should do unto them as we want them do unto us, it does not matter what we may have passed through in their hands, he said we should ignore that and follow his own rules if we indeed want to be his true children in the world. Do you understand what I am saying dear son?
Samson nodded his head and told his parents’ that he understood all they have said and that they should know him better that he cannot change his behavior overnight because of what he has passed through, that he is just sharing it with them of how cruel and wicked some people of the world are. I have been hearing something akin to this for a while, but I was thinking well such can possibly not happen and that it must be that some people are trying to cast aspersions at other people’s lives, but having experienced it now, I know it is possible.
Now you know my son that terrible people are in the world, people who ought not to be living among us, his mother said and started to praise him using his lineage panegyric words. She stopped along the line and asked of what he will like to eat.
As if you know that I am hungry mama, what I want to eat is what I cannot readily prepare in my room, can you get that for me mum? He asked his mother.
Uhm, I know you. His father’s son. Thanks to God that your sister, Lizzy is around she will do that within minutes. Laka stands up from where she was sited heading for the inner room as Samson called unto Lizzy.
Lizzy? Lizzy?? Lizzy???
A thin voice is heard from one of the rooms, “sir? On my way-ay.” Father and son continued to talk in the living room before Lizzy’s arrival. The sound of an opened door was heard, closing gently and her footsteps were heard, she pulled apart the golden colored curtain that demarcates the living room entrance from the passage way, a beautiful damsel of about 167 centimeters, oval face, chocolate color, slightly bowed legs, long hair packed with ribbon putting on a night gown, with slippers on, emerges from behind the curtain. She rushed to where her brother was sited beside his father and embraced him on in this positing resting all her weight on him, not even thinking they may fall over. She gave his brother a peck, sitting on the edge of the cushion chair, “big brother” she said.
Her brother looking at her admiringly, “you are looking gorgeous”
“Thanks, big bro’”
“Don’t you know I am around?” he asked her
“I know you are big bro’, but I am busy tidying up mum’s room saying to myself by the time you finished your discussions I will have finished what I am doing and would join you. How mistaken I was, am sorry”
“Is there anything to apologize for?” he asked looking at her. But she did not say anything just sited beside him with her arms across his neck
“You are equally not looking bad either big bro’, tell me the secret”, Lizzy said to her brother.
“Am I?” Looking at himself, pulling down his shirt, “I am not different from before you know”, he replied her.
“Dad? Do you hear what your son said? Is he not looking differently? Is he not looking fresh?” Their father just smile without responding to what they were discussing while Lizzy continued after re-examining his brother, “Uhm. You know what I mean big bro’, I tell you, you are looking take-away, you are looking more radiant and handsome than before”, she enthused.
“Hearing that from you, I will consider it a big compliment darling.”
“Tell me the secret”, she said
“Secret of what?”
“Secret of your wellness and wellbeing” looking at him smiling
“You know the secret now, it has not changed”
“Tell me anyway, so that there won’t be mis-construing”
“Jesus is the secret you know” he replied
“I know Jesus, I also serve Jesus, I mean the secret of your looking fresh, agile and even younger”
“Love, it is still Jesus from A to Z” he replied.
“Uhm. Good then.”
“How is your brother?”
“He has gone for musical concert” she replied
“Uhm. I know my brother. Music and him; him and music, they are inseparable”
“That is it oh. My prayer is he would soon be discovered by someone who will promote him, promote us” she replied
“Who knows, maybe I am the one who will promote you” Samson said
“We shall really love that you know. If you that happen through you there won’t be anyone to say I am the one who makes him this, I was the one who makes her that”, she said
“Let us keep praying and trust on him, there is nothing too difficult for him to do except what he does not want to do”
“This I know he will be willing to do it for us, because it is in tandem with his wills or is it not?”
“Yes, it is in agreement with his will”
She stands up where she was sited, “in the meanwhile big bro.’ let me go and prepare your bean cake as being instructed by mum”, excusing herself and left father and son in the living room.
In His New Room
After discussing with his parents’ and having made up his mind of what he shall do, at the beginning of the fourth month when it was verily clear that neither the landlord nor the agent was ready to look into the issue raised by Samson of the room he was living in, he decided to leave the house for another for it was clear that those people were thinking he cannot leave the building since they have not refunded his money, he has just spent four months out of the two years he has paid for, he will yet be managing the place until they come and do something about it, the agent and the landlord reasoned among themselves. But Samson thought it is better that he losses the money than to continue to put his life, his properties at risks in the room. I am thinking of getting a partner, a fiancée, assuming my fiancée visits me when it was raining what would happen? Outside this I would also not be comfortable buying something into the room for fear of it being destroyed, it is better I pack out of this place, if God says I would get my money back, fine, but if not, better because at least I shall be protecting myself, he concluded within himself.
With this resolution he looked for another apartment to rent and dipped his hand into the money he has left to get the room. All thanks to God, his business is gradually changing; it is not as it was about 6 months ago. This is how Samson rented a room out of the twenty-two rooms present in the three storey building.
It is almost four years now that brother Samson has been living in this house and this room. It is a room, with a big mattress of about 11 inches width placed on the carpeted floor. It was eight months after brother Samson moved into this room that he bought this big mattress when he discovered that he was having pains all over his body. He at the initial thought it was malaria and he started taking over-the-counter-drugs, but he was mistaken as it happened that those bodily pains did not leave.
One day, his father asked him that he should come and see him after he finished the day’s work. He got to his parent’s house and by the time they will finish their discussion it was already late in the night and his mum said he should sleep in “his house”, after all he is the first born he is the one who will inherit the building if they are gone. He agreed and slept there.
And the following day when he woke up he could barely feel the pains that usually herald his waking from the student mattress that he has been sleeping on in his room, then he reasoned with himself that his problem after all may likely not be due to malaria nor any form of infections that he has been receiving over-the-counter-drugs for all these while. As from then has he been thinking of getting a big mattress, he has to shelve the thoughts that debar him from getting the mattress in the first place, and the thought was he was thinking of building the business first, that after he has built the business he would then buy a big mattress and some other things he thought of into the room, but what happened showed him that good health supersedes those, it is someone who is healthy and alive who could grow business. He therefore pursued what will give him good health by raising money to buy a big mattress.
He went and price what the costs of big mattresses were in the market and after knowing the price he started saving towards that. On the last day of the eighth month in the building, the money he was saving for the mattress got completed and he went and bought the 11 inches width mattress which he was sleeping on in his room.
After buying the mattress he discovered that he couldn’t feel the body pain again and he said to himself, “so sleeping on good and big mattress too is vital to one’s healthy living”.
In this room is 11 inches wide mattress placed on a carpeted floor, with a plastic table and chair directly opposite the only window in the room. There is a 14 inches television adjacent to the table and chair placed on the floor opposite to the mattress.
The door opens inside and to the left when someone wants to enter the room, behind this door is a rod placed on two 6 inches long nails nailed to the wall which makes hypotenuse to the wall. On this rod is Samson hanging his cloths. Behind the door he spreads a paper on the ground on which he puts his kerosene cooking stove, 3 pots of different sizes, frying pan and plate racks. Beside these are containers where he kept foodstuffs, soup ingredients, bottles of palm-oil and vegetable oil. His shoes are at the right hand corner as you open the door, placed on old calendar papers laid on the floor.
There is no electricity in the island today and brother Samson is seen putting on singlet with shorts in his room. He is in his early forties, 173 centimeter in height, 65 kilogram in weight with neatly shaved beard pacing up and down in his room wearing a gloomy look, he is obviously down casted and weighed down in the spirit. As he paces up and down, one may want to think that he is praying but he is obviously not praying but he is thinking, disturbed in thought, “what kind of life am I living in? At 43 years of age with no specific lady to point to as my own future partner. And I Have kept myself pure since my childhood age till now, yet nothing, no woman in my life. This part of the world is unlike the advanced clime where it does matter whether or nay you have a woman in your life at this age. I kept on “posting” my parents which is obviously lying to them that my spouse is in Monoglot Island where as I have none. Mama has pressed me sore and now I think she is tired of disturbing me to bring someone home. Uhm”, he sighed, “I moved out of my parents building with the hope that doing this will facilitate my getting someone, a beautiful lady whom I can call mine, but it has not worked as I thought. If I talked to this lady she will say “I am engaged”, if I talk to that lady her response will be “you are a little bit late, because I just got engaged yesterday””, putting his leg on the chair, resting his elbow on his thigh, sighing, “Uhm I think the ladies of today get engaged right from the womb and I have been very unfortunate not to have gotten engaged from the womb as they all are, that is why I am suffering now. What can I do? Who can save me? I cannot tell lie to be engaged, I think love should be mutual interest from both parties many of the ladies want lies and liars but I cannot do that I have not been brought up like that.”
He removed his leg from the plastic chair and continued to pace and down his room again thinking, some say for some of us who have some inkling into the things of the spirit that I should try and chat up one of my spiritual daughters and I have tried that too but it has not worked for me. Isn’t something wrong with me now? People used to say that when a partner is jilted the jilted one will place a curse on the one who jilted him or her, but I have not done that, I have not wronged any of the ladies I was involved with before they were the ones who wronged me, I am the one who ought to place curse on them but I have not done that because of the faith I have in the Lord. I know curse cannot work on someone who has not erred it is the person who erred that curse would work on. If a curse is placed on someone who has not erred and the curse does not see a hook, which is the error the person has committed, to hang on to in the person’s life, the curse would not stay and it is believed that the curse will return to the person who has placed the curse. Let us even assume any of those ladies tried that, then it means their curses ought to backfire on them, but why is my love life like this? Everything that I have been passing through on this issue of getting a spouse looks as a spell has been placed on me in this area of my life.” He keeps on pacing around in his room verily disturbed this day.
Neighbors in the building could be heard shouting, laughing and making noise struggling amongst themselves for food as the sounds of their legs shown. Someone has put on his generator and they are now playing one of the latest hip-hop songs.
This is the last Saturday of the month and majority of the people in the building are usually around because of the law made by the government of the Polyglot island that all should stay in-door to take care of their surroundings. There is usually nothing much to be done in the building’s surrounding because the floor has been cemented and the drainage to the outside gutter are well covered. Individuals living in the house also have their waste baskets which waste management comes for every weekend to empty and a token will be paid to them. The surroundings of this building is relatively neat always.
Since Samson woke up today, he has not gone out of his room, it took him a while to get off his mattress, the indoor exercise, press-up that he used to do in his room he did not do, he made no attempt at cooking anything, usually he used to prepare food which he will take to his shop daily, but today, he seems disoriented, lost in thoughts, weighed down in the spirit and recently started pacing up and down in his room.
Because of what has been running through his mind he seems not to notice that people were disturbing, he was in this position until his thoughts were interrupted by a knock on his door, “Ko-ko-ko”, he heard and replied, “who is it?” he asked.
“It is me” a female voice responded
He recognized the voice, it is the voice of the latest lady that has moved to the apartment, but he yet wants her to say her name, he thus asked again “Who is me?”
“It is Exuma”, she replied. What does she want? He asked himself as he unbolt the door, standing at the entrance with his hand on the top of the opened door.
“Good morning sir” Exuma greeted him.
“Good morning lady Exuma”
“Please do you have match box to lend me? My match box is empty and the shops and stores selling those things in the neighborhood have not opened for business”, Exuma said
Brother Samson used to buy packets of matches home because he just cannot stand going to co-tenants to ask for something like that, it looks ridiculous to him a young man to be asking of such thing from people. This makes him to be buying a packet of match boxes home. Out of this packet he took a step backwards into his room and took one match box and gave it to Exuma. “Take this” he said as he stretched his hand to her.
“Just give me some minutes I will return it” Exuma said collecting the match box from him.
“Please do not bother to return it. I have spare one I am using”, he replied her.
Having been jolted back to reality he checked the wall clock and saw it is about 09:30 hours local time. “Oh! I am late for work. He took his towel where he used to hang it on the door, wrapped it around his waist, removed his sorts, take his toothbrush and pressed the toothpaste on it, took the sponge box and pour some water from his 25 Liters keg into a plastic bucket, opened the door to go into the bathroom, as he was going there, he was thinking, today. I will have to buy food from the food vendors
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