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Act of bravery

John grew up in a slum his family barely eat two square meals a day he have a dream of making it big some day,he is only son in the family the rest are young girls four girls and a boy which is John.

He sees poverty as a mental state of not having a clear vision of what you want at a given time, not being capable of affording a material things with money .

Whereas john believe that the sky is big to contain everyones limitations of dreams in life without minding people race or division in the society whether rich or poor, he believes that every body dreams matters.

He had a rich uncle that he believe someday will help him to achieve his goal and potential, but what he doesn't like about his uncle is that he bullies him more and often he insults him publicly without minding John's mental state of health.

John was working as a security guard in a five star hotel his goal is to save enough money to gain admission in college school his uncle assisted him financially to gain the admission in college .

One day john uncle asked john if he would mind to work in his master house as a cleaner and John gladly accepted the offer to work in his uncle master house.

John sees it as opportunity to make more money for himself and his family, while he was working their as a cleaner one fateful day his uncle master asked john if he could leave with him permanently instead of coming from far distance to work for him and he accepted the offer at least by leaving with his uncle master that could aid him to save enough money.

His uncle doesn't like the way things where going he started developing some hatred toward john everything about john despises him.

His uncle's master had a birthday party in his house he invited his friends and relations to celebrate with, it was a massive turn up there is a lot to drink and eat .

When the party was over everybody was handed a gift john uncle was the one in charge of handing gift to guests John was assisting him, when everybody has gone john sat at the corner of the compound to eat his food, john uncle walked toward John's direction :-

You this wretched animal what are you doing here ?

Look the way you are masticating the meat as if your family could afford it.

Who dish this food for you?

You this wretched son of a no body.

John felt bad and lost his appetite and dump the food and walk away.

At some point things became tough for john to bear he became completely depressed both in school and his work place he decided to leave his home town to travel to city for a greener pastures, though things wasn't easy for john in the city as he expected.

He worked in some company to earn for a living with some money he made in the city he decided to invest it in a business but he couldn't get a suitable business with the money he had he decided to travel back to his home town to startup a meaningful business for himself the first business he ventured wasn't that lucrative he decided to switch to a taxi business.

One day his uncle saw him and started making jest of him:-

You this wretched son of a fellow I thought you traveled to city to make it big or have you come back to start living a low life again in this town.

Do you think that making money is that easy?

If it's easy your wretched father wouldn't have been leaving in a slum with you guys, come and be working for me let me be paying you money for food.

John felt bad and drove away.

While john was doing his taxi business one-day he met Mr Clement , Mr Clement car got broke down on the road to his site, he deals in estate land and property that fateful day Mr Clement car got broke down on the road which requires that his car will be towed to a mechanic workshop while Mr Clement saw a taxi about to drove by (it's john's taxi )Mr Clement waved to the taxi and it stop he entered the taxi car and instructed him to take him to his site where he had an appointment with a client .

When they reached the exact destination Mr Clement said:-

Young Man please you have to wait for me , you will take me back to my office.

John:-

Will you pay me for the whole day service?

If you can then I will wait for long as you want.

Mr Clement smiled and said:-

Money is not the issue name your price am coming back.

They reached agreement which both party accepted, Mr Clement now left to meet his client which is waiting for him for a land business everything went successful and the two party parted away .

Mr Clement asked john to take him to a nice restaurant where he could eat while they where going Mr Clement admires john driving skill and asked him if he will be his personal driver.

John:-

Well sir I will give it a thought.

Mr Clement:-

When you made up your mind come to my office let's discuss your salary.

That day john took Mr Clement to his office and drove off, after some days John decided to work for Mr Clement and went back to Mr clement office after they reached conclusion john accepted the job.

In the evening Mr Clement handed john some office file to keep in the car which he did and drove him to his house, while John was working for Mr Clement one-day John's community had a council meeting and John was among them they where contemplating on what to do to raise money for a community project they decide to sell some of the land they had to raise funds, they fixed the price they will sell per a plot of land.

The total land measure was about one thousand acres of land john offers to bring some one that might be interested to buy it which they all accepted.

The next day john told Mr Clement about the business and he accepted but the land was too many, Mr Clement couldn't afford to buy the whole land which he bought some at a given price which John told him that he is selling basically John added his percentage per each plot he sold which made him to raise enough money .

Mr Clement offer's to assist him selling some of the land.

John paid the required amount the community wanted for the project at hand and take the remaining land with him , they issued the whole documents of the land to john and he became a land owner .

With the money John made for his estate management business he established a company of it's own and employed a lot of staff to work under him.

Mr Clement became a business partner with john and they were doing well in the business.

One day Mr Clement had a party in his house he invited some of his friends and John uncle's master was one among the people Mr Clement invited .

John's uncle was at the regular guest section while john was at the VIP section his uncle couldn't stand the shame and left the party .

John uncle's master discovered that John's uncle is stealing from him and got him locked up , after some years he got pardoned.

He was left with nothing and became devastated he has no property of his own , his bank account was totally frozen.

He has no other choice but to move to slum area for shelter .

After some years his condition worsen to the point that he couldn't afford two square meals a day, he decides to search for a job fortunately he got the job at one of John's company but he's not aware that john own the company.

One-day John decided to visit his company were his uncle is working, john was dumb founded seeing his uncle as one of his staff john stood almost an hour gazing at his uncle he didn't utter a word and walked into his office.

John's uncle couldn't stand the shame and went and committed suicide .