Story By Sbongile Nzima
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Sbongile Nzima

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Depression taking over a young girl
Updated at Dec 9, 2023, 04:01
she was one of those pretty, charming young girls , she was a very cold and so beautiful,she was born into a very poor family she had no hopes, no hope of becoming loved or appreciated by the community because of how poor she was, she was a very unhappy teenage girl... she thought she was cursed of bieng born in a poor family like hers , the was never a day without her comparing herself with those rich kids. she suffered from enxiety, depression,she suffered from the poverty of her home ,the shabby furniture,walls . each and every day she'd just stare at walls and cry without saying any word, her family started noticing her and were very worried about her . everytime when she'd stare at the furniture,she thought of white gold shining furniture something to give her peace.everytime when they were all seated for dinner she'd stare at her pap and cabbage and thought of exquisite food at those five star hotels. she had nothing to shine with like her peers, she likes glamorous lifestyle but she never got one, she was mostly influenced by social media of which got her to have enxiety and depression cause of the thought that she will never ever get to taste a good lifestyle. She had no friends but she had rich neighbors, Teenagers of her age they were those kinda beautiful shiny girls and they had the lifestyle she wished to have. She never wanted to make friend with them cause she'd feel less of hersel and would eventually cry the whole day. Her family started noticing her but they had nothing to do about it. one afternoon her grandmother returned from work, bearing in her hands a long tight shiny black dress. "suprise,"she said,"Here I've got something for you my beautiful grandchild." She grabbed the dress and hugged it so very tight and she ran to the room to fit the dress and after some time she got out. Instead of being delighted, and happy as her grandmother thought she would be, she was grumpy and disappointed,she trew the dress down murmig " And what am I supposed to do with such a small dress?" "But my dear i thought I you would be happy, I saw you staring at those Facebook pictures and crying so I thought this would cheer you up," she looked at her with a disappointing eye and declared impatiently"this thing of yours doesn't even fit, just say it ,you wanted to make a mockery of me ,am I that thin huh ?" but the old woman didn't think of the size but she wanted to make her grandchild happy; she stammered" the last I checked this was your size I'm sorry , how stupid I am," well she didn't even realise how her grandmother has tried she just gave her a side eye and went out. the old woman stood the quietly, eyes downcast and was silent, stupefied,in dismay and two tears fell slowly toward the Cornes of her eys towards corners of her mouth and the aunt came out and saw her ,she stammered:"what's the Matter? what's the Matter?" and the old lady responded with a calm voice, wiping her tears and her moist cheeks: "Nothing my dear ,it was just dirt and I was cleaning my eyes , nothing serious,"she giggled and just walked away and the aunt was left in deep thoughts , "I wonder what's wrong with mama,". as she was still drowning in thoughts her husband called Which is the uncle and said" Monica, I'm still waiting for the water." Her mind escaped from the deep thoughts and answered "aii Vusi stop bieng impatient, I'm coming," she took and water and went to her husband . The next morning lufuno the depressed girl was sitting outside of her shabby home when two town beautiful girls walked passed her and they looked at her with a dirty look" ewwee, ewwee what's that, i mean are you a girl cause Nah the is no girl like, you so dirty eww," they said she stood up and looked at them and stammered : "Nelly and Gugu I bet you guys are going somewhere so why wasting your time talking to a trash girl like me yerhh ?" they looked at her and laughed " woahhh Shem girl imagine us the cool girls wasting our time on youu Nah ,we were just giving out advices that you should sometimes consider taking a bath you know, I mean you so ugly .'" said them and they walked away laughing, she looked at them and cried and ran back to the house, she took a rope ," are we going to play with the rope sis lufuno," said her siblings and she just looked at them and walked away, she went out and tied the room on the washing line and she took out a letter and wrote a message then after she hanged herself and that's was how depression took over the Young girl. Mbali and ngothando her siblings went out to check on her they tried touching but never responded,they screamed and all the family members came out, it was a very sad moment for everyone and mbali saw the letter and"look she left out a letter." she read the letter telling how hurt she was..they all cried . On Sunday afternoon it was her funeral and she was buried and was a very sad moment. all the girl she we wanted to be like were puted to jail for selling drug . The EnD
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