So among the children that live in my compound, I nicknamed each and everyone of them and the nicknaming stemmed from their original name. One of them, whose name is Dikachi, I preferred to call him ‘Dikaa Dikaa Wheelbarrow’.
‘Dikaa Dikaa Wheelbarrow’ originated from Prof Chikodi’s song ‘Ikwa Ikea Wheelbarrow’. Children started making mockery of Dikachi due to the fact that the name sounds like the popular Prof Chikodi’s ‘Ikwa Ikwa Wheelbarrow‘ song.
I decided to download the song just to pay more attention to the lyrics of the song and find out what Chikodi really means by “Ikwa Ikwaa Wheelbarrow’.
It was at that point he started narrating the story of a man (Chukwuemeka) who traveled to Brazil and he was sending money home to his siblings whom he entrusted to invest the money back home for him.
They lied to him about how they have built different plazas all over the country for him.
When the man (Chukwuemeka) came back from Brazil just to start enjoying the fruit of his labour. At the point of his return, he came to find out that his siblings actually squandered his money instead of investing it just like they told him when he was in Brazil.
Upon finding out that he has no property, he fainted and finally woke up in the hospital.
When he was discharged from hospital, he came back home and started crying. After he tried to console himself, he took a rope which the Igbos call ‘udo’ and headed for the forest.
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When he got to the forest outside the knowledge of anyone, he tied the rope against a tree branch and was ready to take his own life.
As he was about to jump after hanging the rope against his neck, he heard the cry of an abandoned baby. He quickly got down from the tree and traced where the baby’s voice was coming from. Behold he saw an infant who was abandoned by its mother.
He quickly took the baby to motherless babies’ home. There and then he told himself that if this little child can be saved by him, what is the need of taking his own life? Finally, he decided to live with the obvious truth which is the fact that he has no money.
He managed to buy a wheelbarrow and became a wheelbarrow pusher.
The Change of Things
Months later, the young man, one early morning, was moving to the market for his usual wheelbarrow pushing business. He noticed someone was chased by the police.
The thief dropped a huge bag he was carrying and jumped a fence. The police still followed him without knowing when he dropped the bag. The wheelbarrow pusher went to the bag and when he opened it, behold it was filled with dollars.
Quickly, the wheelbarrow pusher took the money home and when he counted it, it was $86k in total.
A few weeks later, he made plans and returned to Brazil. Months later, he got married, and started building the plazas he thought he had.
Bottom Part Of This Story
Don’t allow your inability to make money now to disrupt the possibility of you making money in the future.
It’s only when you give up that you can’t succeed. It is important that you understand that it is only those who persevere and succeed at the end.