When you were five,what did you want to be when you grow up?.#Dailywritingprompt.#lawyer #teacher #registerednurse

I started my elememtary school before the age of five years old .Before I was five years I was already helping my mother in her provison stores.

After I was born my parents had two younger siblings a boy and a girl.These two were very crazy and grew up very fast. So I was forced to hurry up and maintained my place as their senior.

I wanted to be a lawyer when I grew up.I told every ear that would listen that I want to be a lawyer.So I started early to learn how to read books and also how to dramatize with hope that all of these will make me a strong lawyer.

I kept my dream strong this included learning how to speak in public.My dream of becoming a lawyer died a painful death on one faithful evening.I was fourteen years old and my father gather us for family meeting.

He wanted to know where everyone of us see ourselves in the next ten years.I was quiet, infact as quiet as a church mouse. Each and everyone said what they wanted to be when they grow up.When it was my turn I said that I want to be a lawyer when I grew up.

Before I could finished speaking my junior brother injected the acid that crystalized everything.He told my father that I was too quiet to be a lawyer. Everyone concurred and agreed with him ,immediate I became their dinner.

Everyone wanted a piece of me.My mother was the first one to speak .She wanted me to be a teacher so that I could quickly get married and start having grandchildren for them.Then my father said that he wanted me to be a well qualified nurse.

So that I would take care of himself and my mother when they are old.My older brother told them to allow me to make my decision of who I wanted to be when I grow up.The conversation ended.

Thank God in heaven that I survived.Can you imagine people around you redirecting your focus as if you have no brain.Well to cut the whole story short.I followed my mother’s wishes to be a teacher.

I became a high school teacher at the age of 22years old.I later changed from high school teacher to a Registered nurse.I am very grateful that I was a teacher and later a registered nurse .The sad aspect is that less than two years after I became a registered nurse my parents departed to the other side.They did not see me or enjoy me as a registered nurse as they had hoped.