Ordeal Of a Barren Woman.
“Madam, we have a situation on ground a very serious one at that!”
“Doctor, I hope it’s nothing bad?” I asked
“It depends on you but to me, I think it’s a good news a very good one at that”
“Okay go on…
“You are three weeks pregnant!”
I was shocked for some seconds then I smiled.
“Of course it’s a good news doctor” I answered.
“Do you know how long I have waited for this child?”
Oh, the pain!
Oh, the depression!
Oh, those lonely and silent years!
Oh, those lonely nights I wake up late at night praying and crying to the heavens to come to my aid!
Oh, those thoughts and moments I felt like committing suicide!
I was ready to end it all. Maybe when I am gone from this wicked world I will feel better.
Oh, the way I was always looked at with disgust on people’s face!
I was already sure they have tainted me bad, evil, a witch that that has sacrificed her unborn children to the coven in exchange for either wealth and good luxuries of life. The shame and ridicule I went through just because my friends with whom I wedded with were already pregnant after a few months and I wasn’t? In our society today, it’s like we the women we are always spied on. Everything we do, there are people that their sole job is to watch us and they always give a comment. When a lady doesn’t get married on time, they either say she has misused her life when she was young or there is a problem with her.
Then, when you get married, they wait next for you to say “oh Mummy or oh Aunty I am pregnant” after some weeks of your wedding. When you don’t say this, they give you little time by assuming that “maybe they are not ready to give birth yet or they are not ready” but after a year, you become the talk of the town. They will start calling you names and tainting your image. It’s always the women that go through most of all this ill treatment. The men are stylishly exempted.
As this thoughts rub through my mind, I felt tears dropping down my cheeks. I smiled, they were tears of joy mixed with a certain feeling I couldn’t define. I looked at the doctor’s face I realized I wasn’t even listening to him again and he seemed to have realized that.
“Sorry doctor I was deep in my thoughts I wasn’t listening but thanks for this news and of course, this is a good news I must say and I can’t wait to share it to my loved ones.” I replied.
I collected the envelope from him and left the office with a smile still plastered on my face. All of a sudden I felt this sudden joy and courage in me. This news has uplifted my spirit and I was ready to deliver it far and near. At this rate, I was ready to conquer any obstacle that came my way.
I bounced out of the office with pride. With only one thought in mind that; I Juliet, I am going to show them that I was not alone in this all this while. I was never alone and I will never be alone because I believe that, everyone has his or her own time of shine and when your time comes, no one and I mean no one can stop it. It will just like place without any force or stress added to it!
©Olasonde Blessing Onoshorenma
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