@kyeruphiona Beautiful story! The family's communication to you came from love and circumstances. One of the most important conversations pre-marriage is defining roles of husband and wife in the specific intended marriage. In most cases, this also extends to respective family expectations.
There was a woman who sold rice and stew outside my office building on Broad Street. Every day for 4 years. Big pot. Blue plastic chairs. She knew everyone's order before they reached her table.
Her name was Mama Chidi.
Mine was the last plate before she packed up. 1:45pm. Every day without fail she'd see me coming and start dishing before I even sat down. Extra meat. Never charged me for it. I asked her once why.
She said I looked like someone who skipped breakfast.
She was right every time.
2019 she stopped showing up. No warning. Just gone. I asked around. Nobody knew anything. I switched to a restaurant down the road. More expensive. Smaller portions. Spent 4 years just quietly missing a plate of rice I never properly appreciated.
Last month my colleague forwarded a Twitter post into our work group.
A young guy. Maybe 25. Saying his mother used to sell food on Broad Street before she had a stroke in 2019 that took her left side. That she was recovering but kept asking about her regulars. That she cried one day saying she never got to say goodbye to any of them.
I DM'd him immediately.
He called me 10 minutes later.
She was sitting right next to him.
I heard her voice through the phone. Slower than I remembered. But she laughed when he told her who it was.
She said she always saved my plate last because quiet people need someone looking out for them.
I visited her in Mushin on Saturday. She can't stand long anymore. But she sat up straight in that chair and watched me eat everything she'd made.
Didn't let me leave without packing food for the road.
Some people just decide to take care of you. Before you even know you need it.
@FabrizioRomano In all this mess that's happening, let us all take a minute and remember Morroco APPEALED! What were they hoping for.... To be handed a trophy in the boardroom, like this?
@TheMiamiApe@lucasanswers Lol.... I agree twitter brand is almost undying. However my opinion is that both 'X me' and 'twitter me' just don't sound right. 😊I stand corrected.
@SithabisoStar@gndzongana Even if it becomes an Accomplice to murder (In this case aiding the murder) case, for her.... it's likely to have same consequances/sentence as the murder itself.
'For we don't fight against Flesh and Blood.....'
At different stages in life, battles will present themselves. The real choice is between 'fight and conquer' or 'surrender and die'.
Tanzanite can only be found in one place on Earth, near Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania 🇹🇿.
Over 1,000 times rarer than diamonds.
Top 1% mineral on the planet.
@nubian6 I always find it strange that some of us black people are so comfortable to generalise and judge a whole nation, sometimes a whole race with negative stereotypes. Would be interesting to see how same 'judges' react when hearing some stereotypes like e.g 'Black people are lazy'