Mum’s Pep Talk to Her Daughters #3
Exploring my talent, putting it into use in the literary world for the benefit of humanity and promotion of communication
It is a narrative poetry of a mother who starts to talk to her daughters after much pressurizing from one of them to tell them how she can get a good spouse, because she wants a lovely family like the family where she is being raised up.
When this happens, the man cannot tell any member of the
Family which he was living with because he considers it a thing
Of shame and he does not want them to convince her neither any
Of her family member in talking to her to change her opinion
About him. Marriage is a personal thing, she said the man says
One should be convinced from deep within one’s heart about the
Person one wants to be romantically involved with so that in the
Future when something unexpected happens between the love birds
They would not shift the blame on anyone that if not that person F
Who talks to me about you, I do not plan to be married to you
Again. There has been incident like that about a woman who does
Not love a man, but who because a relative of the man that the
Lady now a woman respects talk to her about the young man then
That was when she decides to get married to the man. But after
Getting married to the man, and at slightest mistake of the man, what
She would say was that, I do not have it in mind to marry you
Before it was because of your Uncle that I changed my decision.
She said, the man because of this did not inform anyone about the
Lady’s decision. And when he is being asked of her, he would
Say she is fine and would put up different excuses for her not coming
To visit them. Elder people know how to read in between the lines
Because they have once trod that path before, thus, they soon
Know that things were not going on well with the man and the
Person he presents to them. But instead of trying to open the wound
Of his heart, they started saying to him that their sales girl too
Is not bad as a lady, and when they see them talking together they
Will say they are looking forward to when they would be together.
As they repeat this, the young man too started looking at her
And on a fateful day, he proposed to her. It was a miracle to my
Friend as she says, and a dream come true. After few days, they
Started moving out as spouses. When my friend asks him why
He does not propose to her before, his response was that he was
Thinking about her age, and that if he proposes to her, she may
Be thinking he is too old. And again since she is saving for
Her academics, he would not want a situation whereby the
Family he is living with would think they are stealing from
Their purse to maintain their relationship, for that is common
With people when they found two members of their staff in
Relationship they would think they must be stealing from
Their purse. However, having studied them he has discovered
That they are not people like that, and they have also tried him to
Know that he cannot do something like that. The man again would
Not deny the importance of what the family used to say when
They see them together in him approaching her after a while.
They are happily living and blessed too.
(Other stories she shared with her daughter for them to know that what works for person Q may not work for person X would be shared in other articles)
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