Childhood experience

Good day beautiful steemians today I have a beautiful memories here to share with you hope you enjoy it.

Last evening, I went to a nearby shop 📦 to get some groceries 🍿. On getting there, I met a little girl, about 4 years old, crying 😭. She told me she lost the thousand naira 💸 her uncle gave her. To some point, I felt sorry for her. According to the story I heard, because I was not there her uncle visited her and gave her a thousand naira, which she held as if that was the only thing she valued most in her whole life. Her mom tried to comfort her, telling her she would give her another money, but this girl refused to be comforted. She kept crying and crying 😢.

While this event was going on, my mind traveled back to when I was a kid 👧. My siblings traveled with my aunt, and I was the only one left at home 🏠. I never stopped crying 😭 until my siblings were forced to come back because their crying led to sickness 🤒.

I also remembered when that same aunt of mine bought me a Barbie doll 👸. Back then, I had loved this doll so much that it became the only friend I had at home 🏠. Each time I returned from school and was perhaps forced to do my homework 📚, the only person I would play with was always my doll 👸. My siblings were not comfortable, especially my last-born, because I totally forgot her, as if she did not exist 🙅‍♀️. Though they did not like the fact that the only thing that mattered to me was my doll, they couldn't do anything about it 🤷‍♀️.

So one day, after playing with my doll, I left it outside and forgot to take it inside 🌂. That night, it rained so heavily that the flood outside swept my Barbie doll away 🌊. Oh God, I cried as if I was mourning a dead body ⚰️. I even suggested I organize a burial for the death of my dear Barbie, but I didn't know how to organize a funeral 😂.

When I remembered this event, I laughed at myself and was like, "Was that really me?" 😂 Wow, people grow... 👨‍🦱.

You may be wondering what kept me that long in the grocery store 🕰️. I wanted to buy fufu, a locally made food 🍲, but it wasn't ready at that time, so I had to wait. After like an eternity of listening to the little girl cry, I was angry and felt like giving her two dirty slaps 😤, but I couldn't. I only realized one thing, which is the level of patience our parents have to tolerate us, even when, at most times, the reasons for those actions are not always reasonable enough 🙏.

I believe we all had this childhood experience 👧. When you were a kid, share yours! 😊 and lets have it
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