The Untold Adventure

Bad Times

The trauma that kicked in on Samuel was anything but simple, He was in a situation where he always felt like every body was against him, Every laugh uttered by people who seemed to be in a mischievous discussion near him always seemed to be one aimed at mocking him, he had grown a dislike for hiking and strolling because he knew that he would end up drunk walking even though he was completely not drunk.

But then even with this problem, his persistence, determination and faith proved to be really helpful to him, Even though he wasn't able to stop his mind's malfunction, he simply used another way that yielded a good result, he got himself used to it, he forced himself to neither look down when working, nor stagger, he got so used to it and was no longer fully affected by it.

Back to the present day, Samuel sat on chair whose back was already broken and so he couldn't rest his body which therefore caused quite the discomfort on his back, if not because of the frequent standing up from time to time, either to answer his customers or to just stretch, he felt he would have developed back pain or spine problems.

This was something he had to go through everyday, and so he had gotten quite used to it, POS attendant might sound like a noble job vibes, but it was far from that, it was mostly done in streets or markets, And the gain per transaction was extremely miniscule, This always made people view POS workers as wretched and therefore showered them with insults and humiliation on daily basis on daily bases.

But the truth about the business was that it wasn't necessarily a business for the poor, as when you apply the train of thought gotten from education, you are likely to make more than what cashiers in banks are being paid as salary per month. It all depended on how well versed you are in the job, This was something his father taught him.

One could make up to 7k naira per day if that day was quite good and maybe 2k naira to 3k naira if it was bad, And today just happened to be one of those bad days, his luck was on red light today, it was already afternoon, and the sun was scorching, but he had yet to make up to 1.5k, he wasn't even sure he had made up to 1k. The way the day was going was what triggered thought about his life, This was something he was already use to as this was neither his first, second nor third time since he had developed such thought, it had become a thought he had developed as a means to take off his minds from the happenings during bad times, even though the thought did entail negative experiences in his life, but it also entailed positive ones, and so he preferred thinking about them than thinking about his current problem, except when he was ready to go for solving them

But there was one particular problem that had become so serious that he had decided not to think about it anymore and just let nature take it's cause. It was a problem that was required, but even though a young one, it has grown to be the most heart ache bringer problem he had ever faced, it was really a bane to him.

It was a debt which he owed to a famous online bank, yes, Samuel had gotten into debt and even his parent didn't know as he was to ashamed to tell them about it, he owed a little loan to a bank that he would have been able to settle eventually, but it was no longer a little loan as his failure to settle it on time caused it to add up overdue interest, and now the loan was no longer a little amount. The said bank he borrowed from had always be known for the embarrassment they impose on their debtors, So this just had to be a major problem, But his reason for not thinking about it was that it seemed to have no solution he was willing to take at the moment, as the only available solution weren't one's which he was willing to go through with, one was to tell his parent, but he was to afraid to do so as the money wasn't really a little money and so he couldn't bear to dump another problem on their head, This was the main reason of the continuous steps to make money which he had repeatedly took, trying to make money as fast as possible and so take off this knife dangling above his head, but after continuous trial with zero results, be had already decided to let nature take it course and forget about the debt and just focus on making money, who knows maybe that was when things would finally fall into place for him.

You couldn't blame for making such decision though, as he had tried so many jobs repeatedly, it was even in one of them that he ended up incurring that debt, he had decided to stick with the one he was currently on as after making his research, he found out that it was one of the ones that was most likely to yield results, only that it would take a bit of a while.

He always felt he had to make money because he knew most of the problems in his family were instigated by the lack of wealth and he definitely didn't want that to be a factor when he got his own family and so he chose to start trying now, he believed one of these days, God would remember him, and his story would change.

Even after so many trial and failure, Samuel had never stopped trying even though there where times he will just take a pause but then in no time he got himself back and tried again and again and again, He had even done the same job numerous times going round and round as this where jobs he felt was associated with his talent and so where the best for him to try his luck with, one was affiliate marketing, since he was little he had been known for someone who could convince you that your name wasn't your name and he will give you a thousands reasons while it is so and you just won't be able to refute and affiliate marketing being about convincing customers to buy a particular product or order for a service from a specific brand seemed like quit a fitting job for him.

Another one was singing but that one didn't even go far as he lacked the resources and wasn't good as making the beat and so even though he felt he was a great singer, he knew he would require quite the some of money to realise such occupation and so he had to give up completely.

And then came being an author, he had tried that quite a few times where he wrote his first story trying to imitate his favourite w*******l stories which was written in ancient Chinese fantasy, but that turned out to be an epic failure as he wasn't really feeling it and so he couldn't write.

Any time he tried to write, he will end up feeling sleepy or extremely bored, he then decided to write about his favourite movies but that also wasn't perfect as he was still going through the same, the second book he tried to write was about supernatural entities like vampire, werewolves and their like, the name was crystal city.

But when the same thing that happened with the first one started happening with his second story, he had no choice but to use Artificial intelligence, but then things didn't go well as when he was reading through the story, he felt the story lacked realness and emotions, he felt the story was overly professional, and the way each chapters where ended wasn't nice at all, on the contrary, it definitely would frustrate life out of it's reader.

But then he had no choice, it was until now that he finally decided to take a different approach, be first go on Google and an A.I app and narrated his problem to them and they both explained what was wrong, it was just as he thought, he wasn't feeling the stories, he didn't want to write those story, on the contrary, what he really did want to write was one he was uses to, not a China story nor an America story but a Nigerian one.

He had always been someone who had looked up to Nigerians who were making a name for themselves out there and so it wasn't really weird that that was what he really wanted.

And so he decided to try again but this time do what he really wanted to do and do it his way.

And then an even crazier idea hit him, he thought why don't he write about his self, like a story about his self and based the ending on him achieving his dreams, it was probably on crazy a*s idea but it definitely was something worth trying, though he did have so many reservations on doing that, Even though he wanted fame, he didn't really want it to go in a direction that everybody would end up knowing almost everything about him, that just didn't seat really right with him as if you take a look at those who went through such life and how it went on for them, you would understand the reservations he had.

Some of this people are Michael Jackson and Justin beiber, all this are people who went through public growth and it always ended up leaving their life in a mess, even though at times, they are finally rescued by positive strong emotions like love.

All he wanted was to be known, to make it, to achieve his dreams, to help people who will then help more people, such was his ambition, But it all remained thoughts in his head as he still didn't see any means of achieving them.