My Priceless Ruby
By: Artur • Essay • 814 Words • March 21, 2010 • 897 Views
My Priceless Ruby
A ruby is a transparent piece of stone that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem, this is what I call my mother, just that mine is priceless. I don't know what to classify her as because she's the one who has made me who I am today with the help of the Almighty God. My mother is about 5ft 8inches tall, a little chubby, black long hair, the most beautiful eyes I've seen and can be the most scary you'll ever see, the most beautiful dark skinned woman I have ever seen,
My mum's years in high school were the good old days, when everything didn't used to be as expensive and rigorous as it is now. My mother used to be very intelligent and went on many competition for the school and won, for this reason she was the most popular girl in school. My mother finished her high school education at the age of 19 years, and left the shelter of her parents to go to university and made up her mind to study business and made up her mind that no matter what happens she'll get her doctorate degree in business administration, along the way her father my, grandfather died which was a big blow to the family, she was told to withdraw from school in order to help her mother, my grandmother at the farm, she refused and said that the told her mum that she made a promise that she was going to finish her university education and gain her doctorate degree ( although there was not sufficient money to see her through her university talk less of doctorate degree, more over she had 3 younger ones ). In her second year in school her mother, my grandmother also died, my mother was forced to take her junior ones to the city from the village even if she didn't have enough money to take care of them and put them through school because the youngest was in grade 4.
My mother had to double her work in order to make all four of them eat three times a day and send all of them to school, when God decide to answer her prayers he sent a man to her life and they fell in love, the man now became my father, so my mum and dad went through my mum's stress because my dad was a full time worker and my mum was still in her third year in school, when she finished her university education, she settled down with her love and decided to get married, by then they were able to send my mother to London to get her doctorate degree, after 2 years she came back with her degree and was immediately employed by the richest bank in Nigeria. After then God just started to bless them and gave them