Contest Alert: The Annoying Relative
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I will be writing on this interesting contest titled The Annoying Relative by @bossj23
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Do you see it as a burden or an added advantage when your relatives visit you?
Your relatives visiting you should be a nice thing, because there is always joy that it brings whenever your relatives visit you.
But in some cases, I always find it as a burden whenever they come around.
In my mother side, I have many relatives who always visit us, these include my Aunty, uncles and my mummy friends.
Whenever my Aunty comes around, everything will change, she will not allow us to go anywhere we want to go, and you know that nothing is like freedom, she will always tell us to carry our books and read, even on Saturdays and Sundays, I and my siblings was finding this very difficult, because we no longer have the time to play with our friends.
In the morning, she will come to where we are lying down, around 4am, and wake me up. She will say A big girl like you is still sleeping by this time. What do she want me to be doing by this time? I will ask myself.
Stand up from there!!! Lazy child, go and sweep, clean the toilet, mop the rooms, and cook the food that you and your siblings will eat before going to school.
I will answer her, okay, ma, but am I going to do all this before going to school? Don't worry, I will mop the house on Saturday. She will start beating me and calling me all kinds of names.
The worst part is that my parents will not even say a word to her, but insist they will be supporting my aunt.
All this made me hate her coming to visit us.
But I as I was growing up, living in the university by my self, I find out the important of what my aunty was doing back then, here I don't have anyone to wake me in the mid night to study my books, I don't have anyone that will tell me to keep my house clean, but I always wake up in the mid night to study my books.
All thanks to my Aunty.
Is there a relative you find to be very annoying that you detest his or her presence in your house?
Yes, I always find it very annoying whenever my uncle from my father's side visits our house. Whenever my uncle comes, he will be coming empty-handed; he will not even care to buy biscuits and sweets for us. This made all my siblings detest his presence.
As a child back then, whenever I saw our neighbor's uncle coming to visit them, he would bring a lot of gifts for them, but my own uncle would just come without buying anything for us.
Share your experience with this relative of yours
I have experience and also bad experiences with my relatives. The good ones, I learned many things from my aunt, how to cook, wake up on time to do my morning chores, and the rest.
The bad experience was when my aunt was making me wake up in the middle of the night to study my books. I was very little then, so I didn't know the importance of reading books. I thought she was punishing me, but she was actually helping me.
I miss her a lot.
Is it possible for one's relatives to divide one's home? Explain
In some cases yes, let me take my home as example, I have one uncle who always like to correct you in front of my parents, when ever I do something wrong, he will not call me to advise me, but instead he will wait for my daddy to return from work so he can tell him about it. This was bringing issues between my mother and my uncle, even my daddy. My mother would always tell my uncle to beat us each time he saw us doing something bad, that he should stop waiting for them before correcting us.
This always make my uncle and my mother to be having issues always.
I want to invite @okere-blessing, @josepha, and @ikechukwu77 to also join this contest
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Your story beautifully captures the struggles and hidden lessons that come with having strict relatives and it's touching how you now appreciate your aunt’s discipline. Truly, time reveals the value in everything.
Yes dear, I never liked my aunt coming to visit us because she is always strict, but now I know better and all thanks to her.
Thanks for going through my post ❤️
From the good ones, you learnt something.