Ela × The World (ON HOLD)

Chapter one: Her beginning.

The first to third decade of a person's life is very crucial and critical, it's the time that can make one or mar one for life depending on what you are receiving and giving.
It's a period of self discovery, actualization and beginning plus continuation to fulfilment.

Some people are fortunate to receive a lot of positivity plus a little negativity and they have the choice to give either good or bad while others due to circumstances receive negativity and they just can't give anything else but what they were given that's why we have good and bad people in the society.

But:

Plan;

Planning to me is thinking, searching and doing what's of benefit to you and what that will give you a desired end.

That's why I now think that to be selfish to an extent isn't a sin because you need to have something to be able to give. Even Jesus Christ used the first three decade of his life to develop himself before he was fully able to fulfill his purpose.
It has to be self-love first before others love.

Planning is a very essential tool in life,

Wise people make plans for every phase of their lives and they make sure their plans are executed so that they can achieve a desirable end.
Meanwhile the opposite is the case of the unwise, most of them live by feelings, impulse and experience. They let their feelings rule them and they act spontaneously most times disregarding the fact that not all feelings, impulse and experience are ever positive and they impact ones life maximally and that impact is most of the time negatively in this case.

I was one of the unwise, most of the things I did whether good or bad were by feelings, impulse and experience and most of the things I couldn't achieve was because I didn't plan for it mainly because nobody taught me the act of planning and because I always wanted God's will to prevail in my life.
I'm not saying that wanting the prevailent of God's will in a person's life is bad but you have to plan and do your plans while letting him decide whether to let your plans come through or not.
God won't come and live your life for you because he created you and gave you the right to make choices.
It's up to you to make good use of that right so as to achieve eternal happiness instead of condemnation.

Gift and Divine lived by feelings and impulse in their youthful age and that begot my sister and I plus others that follow us but from another woman.
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from its tree, I am my parents daughter but by the grace of God I will do better in my daughter's life.

"Ette, have you taken a close look at our daughter these few days, she seems different to me, I just hope it's not what I am thinking it's."Gift's mother stated with a deep frown on her face.

"What do you mean, she seems healthy to me, you should even be glad that she is doing well alone out there."her clueless father replied and her mother nodded not wanting to assume unwanted things already knowing that nobody will like it to be what she suspects.
I will just have to watch and talk to her, She thought.

At the moment, Gift was in junior secondary school two at a secondary school in the city while her parents resides in the rural area doing farming and some other businesses.
Her parents rented an apartment in the city for her stay through out her secondary School days and placed her in the care of a trusted neighbor.
She just came on a holiday vacation looking fairer, fresher, fuller and more healthy arousing her experienced mother's curiosity.
Her parents were illiterate but for her father's love for her, he promised to send her to school as long as he can afford the expenses.

Sixteen years old Gift vomited the next day and her mother began panicking.

"When last did you see your menses Gift?" Her mother queried when they were in the room far from others hearing.