I am walking home with one hope of getting my ailing mother
in her sickbed. The previous day was Parents’ Day at school and as discipline
dictates, all parents had to attend, and failure attracted some dire
consequences on the victim students. My ‘father’ had always been ‘busy’ to
attend any of the parent’s day and so yesterday wasn’t an exception.
The headmaster angrily whips my ass and sends me to bring
the parent or face expulsion from school. Am in Class 8 and wishes to get done
with my primary exams. So I got home, showed a smile to my mum and as I tried
to walk away into the kitchen, she called, “son what brings you back home this
early?”
“the headmaster wants a parent at school and you know mama,
you are sick and cannot walk to school.” I said. Normally, it could take 15
minutes to school but on this day, it
was going to be several hours journey. She insisted and asked me to give her a
hand so that we could walk to school to meet that headmaster who dared her.
This was despite my resistance. I was her prince.
After three hours of sauntering and holding my mom with her
arm on my shoulder, we finally reached the staff-room. This day something
happened that really inked my heart. I could feel the grief mixed with, fear and
remorse as my mama called on the headmaster…..
Tears ran my cheeks as all teachers avoided in fear to shake
the frail hand of my mama. She was my mama and in everything I was proud of
her. The headmaster came, and I could see straight into 0his eyes the real
remorse of the mistake and injustice he had inflicted on me.
He didn’t say a word this moment. He called on the head-boy,
told him to take his bicycle to take my mama home to rest. From then I never
had the burden of bringing parent to school.
Three days later my mama went to be with the Lord.
Lesson: Just like my mama there is one more thing you
haven’t done to your loved one. ONE MORE THING. Think about it and do it.
And like that little boy be BOLD and show me your mama,
emaciated, weak, frail and looking old.
Be proud of what you got and be BOLD to show it. It might be
a talent in you that you wonder how people are going to perceive it.
