An Unfortunate Story Of A Young Man.

The young man below sent this story of his to one of my platforms this morning and requested it to be published so the world can hear his cry and frustration! This generation is crying out but no one is listening!!

He is one man out of millions with no direction and just in need of an opportunity!

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Good morning Positive outreach,

I hope your weekend went as blissfully as it should be?

Well, I have a story to tell and I want it to be published so people out there would know the gravity of how badly the youths are being treated in this green white and green country..

And if my story and life can pave the way out for others, then I would gladly lay down my life.

I am Teddy Asibor, I am from Edo state, the first child from loving parents that did the all they could to give me the best.

I studied civil engineering in a state polytechnic in Delta state, and came out with upper credit in Both ND and HND degree.

I graduated 2014 but I couldn't serve with my mates because I had some fee I didn't pay and I had to go hustle so I can get that paid and go for service. This took me about two years since I had to practically sort out this cash myself, I know the home I came from and anytime I think about that I shed tears, to even travel home at times give me heart ache.

The struggle to survive started in school, when I did all manner of jobs to get through school, name it and I can relate to it, be it hard labour. I always believed hardworking and humility paves the way out for us, and even if we do not have all we need now soon it would come..

Two years after I was able to raise enough money to pay everything off and I went for service 2017 and finished July 2018. I can't go back home to stay with my parents, at least I am old enough to assist in one way or the other at home..

Well, God knows I don't need fortune and I don't need fame, I only want to have enough to take care of my myself and assist as much people I see because the suffering in this world is just too much.. But as we always know horrible things happen to good people and there is nothing one can even do about it.

I have applied for jobs all around to no avail, I have had two jobs that where ready for me but when I got there it has already been taken up by sons of influential men.

I have been left with nothing... But to struggle with whatever I see..

Right now I do not even know how I am surviving. I have been working at a block factory and I go home with sometimes 400 naira daily or 500 naira at most..

You see the greatest pain a man can feel is to have insight as to much and power as to none. I now strongly believe ignorance is bliss. Because when you know nothing, you feel nothing since you're naive to something you won't see it as if you're lagging behind.

I have this entrepreneural spirit in me.. I also do laundry here, since the power supply is constant in osun state here, I choose to go into it..

I have gone to several banks to seek a loan, nothing

I have gone to several corperations to seek loan, nothing. All they say is, I have to be married first.

I went to meet someone and begged him to just loan me 50,000 and hold my certificates. I am ready to pay back even if it's 10,000 monthly to offset the bill, I am ready.

The rain is affecting the block work and the laundry and for days now I have been living on nothing.. Like I drink garri morning afternoon, evening.. My landlord is already banging me.. My rent is over due.. I wake up each day and I start the day with tears, then prayer and I read.. I try to strengthen myself, but Everyman has a limit.. Ever battery cell has the tendency to drop low and dead at some point..

Since I came to osun state to serve, I took note of one village where almost everyone is into yam farming and plantain.

There they sell 5 tubers of yam for 1000 naira.. But when it gets to the capital here, that can sell for 1800 at least. The transport fare from here to the village is 500 naira to and fro.. And when I make the calculations, it's something I can do. I went ahead to meet the market women here to see how much they would buy from me if I should supply and we ended up at 1450 for each set of 5 tubers.. For a start that is okay.

But everywhere I turn to. Nothing comes out.

But these are same people that won't see the exact cash I am asking of as anything.

When someone is really broke, whatever it is you say, no matter how good and intelligent it is makes no sense at all... That I have learnt.

I have tried to fight against comparison and envy.. My time would come..

Its as if whenever I take two steps forward, life takes my ten steps backward. I am not progressing I am just moving and counting days.

If I can start this business now,the yam business.. At least I would know I have something to hold on to.

Big politicians are there, rich men are there, government officials are there, banks are there..

Give loan to young ones so they can do something legit for them selves.. I always believe there is a big difference between enjoying your youth and destroying your future, most things youth of these days get involve in are just about destroying their future and not realizing it. This I won't be part of. But when you try to do the good stuff in life, even the tiniest of obstacle become a mountain.

Here I am, Teddy Asibor, a graduate with a degree in civil engineering, having to live on 400 naira daily of which right now I can't have again due to the frequent rainfall, yet I can't do what I want to do to survive.. Each day becomes a nightmare.. I am typing I am crying for the second time today..

I don't know what will happen next.. I have tried, lord knows I have tried. As humanly as possible I have tried... Even in my pain I still find a way to assist people in whatever way I can.. And yet I am left buried in mud with nothing to look up-to.

This is my story.. This is me.. Whatever happens next, please let the world know my story and let our leaders know how much they have wasted our lives.

May it be on record so, no one would deny it..

Thanks and may our Heavenly Father look upon us all and judge the wicked leaders we have...