My father sent me #6000 through POS Yesterday. I had a visitor on Friday who planned to stay for 3 days. The visitor got to my place in the afternoon.

I asked, “What have you eaten since morning?”

“Bread,” he replied.

“Oh, that’s good,” I responded, then I went for 4’O clock prayer.

While I was coming back from the mosque, I couldn’t go to my house. I was disturbed with the thought of “what will this person eat now”

If I were the only one, nothing concern me, I go rugged am, buh visitor dey. I was just sitting down opposite my house, staring at the gate, thinking.

Then I flashed back to my father, how few times he came home late.

Then, I now related both events

1. There’s no food at home
2. My father came home late

Then I was like, the same way I feel, that I didn’t have the urge to go to my house, my father must have felt 10 times!

My father has my mother, my three siblings and I, as his responsibilities. But I have no wife nor children, yet I feel this way? How did my father feel?

Then, I reminisced more and sent him a voice note on whatsApp. [Listen to voice note in the embedded Twitter link.]

I tried to translate for non yoruba speakers
What I send to my father pic.twitter.com/Ixb8Ysd3Em

— DaddyBRYL (@DaddyBRYL) October 13, 2024

Immediately, my father listened to the voice note, he called me. There was silence at first then he told me: “I will give you 5000”

I replied, “I only told you that just to share how I felt and how I connected that to understand how you must have felt then”

Silence again. He sighed… took a deep breath, and we ended the call

The next day, which was yesterday (Saturday), he sent a text. He even called me afterwards. He sent 6000 instead of 5000.

His silence was loud, and I understood it. The curse a man carries, the cross, the burden, his provision till he dies is not easy.

A man’s home is like a stomach, no matter how much you fed it today, by tomorrow, you must feed it again if you don’t want “home ulcer.”

The fact that a man will bear his curse, his cross, and so on and the woman can/will ‘steal’ the children away, then watering down years of contributions is devastating

Appreciate your father today, that man na man, e no easy

I’m DaddyBRYL

Writer: @DaddyBRYL (Twitter)