15/05/2025
a woman who used to live in a face-me-I-face-you house where there were many other poor people, in Lagos. One day, she wanted to cook some food. She decided to cook the soup inside her one room apartment, while she pounded her eba in the general kitchen they all shared. In the process, she left her eba in the kitchen to go check the soup inside the room, and before she returned, someone had stolen the eba she was pounding.
She got angry and started to scream. A neighbor who saw the woman that stole the eba pointed the woman’s room to her, and she stormed the woman’s and started to bang the door. She went ahead to force the door open and saw the woman and her kids using ordinary water to eat the eba because they didn’t have soup.
She just stood there in shock and pity. She walked back into her room and brought soup for the woman and her children. That story taught me a very valuable lesson about life: that no matter how bad my situation is, there is someone somewhere who is having it worse. And from that time, I decided to share the little I have with others, because I wouldn’t know what they may be passing through in their personal lives.”