SPILLING MY FAMILY SECRET - by Anita Randy

Hi guyyys, okay I've been thinking about what I'm going to write here for the longest and I'm just going to start with a little introduction nothing too serious or maybe it is serious. You already know my name, it's written bodly on my bio Let me just get straight to why we are here...I'm going to talk about the darkest (not really the darkest) but what I'm really scared of..... I've lived all my life not believing in anything spiritual...like you know all the sentimental stuff JUJU All the "na my village people dey do me" or Those wicked uncle or evil background stuff, maybe I didn't believe cause I was scared Scared that it is true. What if I also had village people that are taunting me...this was really scary to just think about What if no matter what I do even if I'm meant to succeed...what if there are forces that are going to stop that. Then my fear became even more when my mom told me something that disturbs me till today I took after my dad, who also did not believe in sentimental things like evil background and maybe doing somethings to let our ancestors rest, so with this thought, he married my mom who was from a really scary background....this is where things get dark In my mom's family there is a tradition, that when a woman is getting married after doing everything. The bride price is paid The traditional is done The white wedding is done See you'll think, okay what's there to do again... Well you have to buy a certain item for the father of the bride, the elders of the family and the grandmother of the bride even though she isn't alive. If not 'it was told that calamities would before the couple ' Once I heard this I was so scared. I started looking back at my life and the reoccurrences in my family, and it made me shiver waiting for her to tell me my dad did the rites.... But of course he didn't, remember I took after him... I asked my mom how true were this, then she told me about the story of her cousin who did not believe this tale at all and discouraged her husband from doing the rite.... Well, she died just one year in to her marriage, and the husband followed shortly after. Now I said "it could be a coincidence" But then she told me about another cousin who did not also do it then it resulted to her husband dying also, and all her children being useless (harsh I know but we won't go into that now) the cycle goes on and on Then I asked "why has daddy not yet done it" and my mom just sighed and said your dad still believes it's all a lie and I know by now you're pissed at my father...I was too, but then I got to understand him maybe I'm like him maybe I'm still scared if it's true till this day.....

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