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A girl looked at a boy during prizes distribution cermony. The boy was awarded Best Student of The year. the girl was surprised and She came and congratulated him.Boy was of sixteen andd the girl was 24. AFTER a week new session of college started.in the mean while a girl enter the class and started lecture.this was the girl who met a boy at prizes distribution cermony .The girl name was saira and the boy was sitting infront of him. the boy name was sanan. now sanan was a student and saira was a teacher. the student was very hardworking boy and the girl was awesome teacher.Soon student decleared miss saira his favorite teacher.HE admire everyone about saira atitude and hard working skills.. now the time came when saira called sanan and asked him whether he has a girl freind ? Sanan replied no . sanan understood the teacher loved me soon they start freindship. this was the time when the teacher student relationship was changed to freinds relation . in college both loved each other and gave gifts to each other . A good relationshipp was going on between this couple . tehy always loved and pray for each other success . all students understood about this couple and now sanan was called saira sanan in class. after college time they talked each other through mobile phones and both slept late at night. SANAN also continued his hardwork in studies and got success one after another.saira infront of teacher staff admire about his syudent and often she said student should be like sanan sanan was completely fall in love with her miss. after one year saira sister got job in the same college . she hated sanan sanan did not know why sana hate me. THE REASON OF HATENESS WAS THE GIFTS GIVEN BY SANAN TO SAIRA sana saw all those gifts on which sanan name was mentioned. soon sana burned the fire between sanan and saira . saira without clearification about the story told by sana she begun and hate sanan sanan again and again asked her to clear her points but she did not belive soon again they became happy from each other but now no lift was given by saira to sanan sanan was very upset that why she did not talk to me with a polite manner . saira was engaged with his cousin for marry .when sanan came to know about her engagement he cried and said why my dear you are going for away fom me and then said luck matters after that sanan lift college to forget his love but still he said some love stories live forever after one year she married to her cousin but she still had love with sanan and became ill. when sanan came to know about her marriage and then about her illness he prayed to ALLAH GET WILL SOON SAIRA both were spending their lives in the love with eac other therefor some love stories live forever after six year sanan became a doctor he was well professional doctor she always thought about saira and he thought where would be saira and how she would be living because in the six years time they did not talk nor seen each other saira after six years became the mother of 3 children and one of her son name was sanan. she always thought about sanan and said to herself if sanan were my husband if sanan were my lover if i marry with sanan and refused to my cousin for marry saira life was full of difficult circumstances as she became the depression patient sanan was also spending a tough life and all times saira remained in his thoughts he always said to himself if saira was my wife i would proved husband and wife relationship where saira was living by chance sanan job was shifted there. when sanan was going to hospital she saw a girl and some doubts came to his mind the girl was looking like saira. but he did not belive he thought that it was a dream a next day saira saw sanan and she completly understood that he was sanan she went to home. sanan and saira homes were oposite to each other .sanan saw saira from belcony and now understood that it was his first love. they both once again met each other and appointed a day for trip saira husband did not know about saira activities saira was always unhappy at home .she and her husband did not live a good life. soon saira and sanan went for trip . there they both discuss about the past but sanan was very angry with saira . sanan asked saira why she love me? if you were not ready for marriage then why you love me? saira replied that she still love with him.and i married with my cousin by fixing the engagement by my mother.i repent on my marry upto now i have three son but living in hell they did dinner and came back to home. now there love was continued and they met each other everyday and told past stories to each other a day was come when saira husband understood about sanan and his activities he made a plan he said to saira that today he would go to his freind party saira called sanan and said to him that today we would go for a dinner to resturant and there saira husband reported to police they bought were caught at resturant and sanan went to jail after court trial it was decided that sanan destroy five live saira and her husaband and her three sons so sanan would live the rest of life in jail. sanan did not object on court case and accepted the court decision now he is living in jail and said to himself some love stories live forever there saira also thought about sanan love and said to her self some love stories live for ever a journy started in light ended with darkness
When you are around 13 to 16 years, as a boy, some traditional cultures dress one like a magnet. That was exactly the situation I was in at that age. Some the cultures most guys at the age took part in, my family was not interested in such cultures.
But what consumes ones thought, actions and speeches must have mattered to the person, if not, why do it disturb ones sleep?.
It was so in my youths days to the extent that I usually walks miles to the village square, go to friends that were inclined to and took joy in discussing exploits like that I had feelings were being censored because of me in their presence.
I am talking about masquerade initiation in Igbo land. Years back, it was sign of manhood like moustache and beards were.
If you have not the privileged to have read the ? Bottled leopard? by Chukwuemeka Ike, do so, it would explain and educate more in all you need to know about the tradition and culture of Igbo people from Biafran land in Eastern Nigeria. It requires a little imagination to digest all what he was crying to pass across there for it somehow relate to another aspect and angle from which I am trying to relate my own experiences to you.
During festivals like new yam and other similar ones, when there is a kind of mass returns to celebrate the harvest season, people gather in markets and village squares to celebrate the festival after the traditional ruler with his cabinets, and each representative of each village that made up the town would have prayed to the living God and our Ancestors and thanked them for the bounty harvest and request for their protections and progress.
Then, it would be the time for people to gather to watch all manners of Masquerades that at times dance to the beaten of the drums that accompanies the events. Gatherings in village square and markets arenas were the only place where women and non- initiated can gather safely to watch Masquerades without molestation.
Outside those areas, you stand the risk of receiving many rashes of cane and doing forced donations to the masquerade and his Entourage.
Most towns has their own unique ways of carrying out their own masquerade initiations, activities and ages for initiation differs too. Some towns starts at age of 10 and above, while some, at 17.
The functions of the Masquerade remain almost the same in each town:
Keeping orders in certain gathering,
Summoning interested parties in a dispute
Leading young men to deliver punishments in any serious disputes
Putting yellow raffia's to the economic trees that people tampers with it's fruits.
They practically carry out the works of modern day police.
So, all these many functions and activities of the Masquerade were what endeared it to the heart of the many young men in any town.
The women and the young truly believed as they were meant to that masquerade were spirit that comes out of the ant hole whenever they are needed and return to the Spirit world after performing their duties.
The fact that the Masquerade has a kind of diplomatic immunity that frees it from any damage it might have done and holds the person that summons or following it responsible for the damage will show you has it is seen as representative of the spirits in human world called to perform function that benefits humans.
During my teenage years, I had tried in two occasions to be initiated into the Masquerade world without success. In those two occasions, one naturally thing or another would happen to disrupt the events.
If hefty down pour don't start without warning as if all the doors in heaven were thrown open and the event would be postponed to another occasions or related festival that warrants the appearance of the Masquerades which is usually months apart and the other initiation were done only in the night for secrecy sake. On another occasion, it was the death of the one well known old man that have contributed positively to the village and the town that occurred minutes to the events that brought it to another halt.
In that particular occasion, I was forced to asked the Chief Priest some desperate questions:
? won't some people go to the family to say sorry and others remain behind to carry on with the initiation??
?It is not done that way my son, even the death of the prominent man like this is an indicator that the Spirits were not in support of this event?
?But it have been postponed in two different occasions, won't be intelligent to see it through this time??
? That type of intelligence is very dangerous. You don't question the will of the spirits?
?We take risk in coming out this time of the night to event that seen never to hold?
?Night might be night to you mortal but the spirits, it is living day light?
?Is there no way these intimation ceremony should be moved forward for you know our family house is far from the square?
? Young Man, as old as i am now, I came into this world met this ceremony as it is, I has no plan of tampering with anything involved in it, whether time or items. Our ancestors handed us over both the items and time involved, it is usually 1:30am to 5:00am so shall it continues in my watch?
? So, what are we going to do again with these things we bought ??
? Only few can go bad, others can stay years, keep them well in about four months, coast might be clear?
?Four months is very long time and temptation of not using them are enormous, then I will start wasting resources to buy new ones again?
? Give your parents to keep for you or you can hand them over to my boy to keep."
That was how nature kept postponing the initiation till I moved away from my village to pursue other earthly events and somehow lost interest in people and the culture for my nature don't agree with the whole events anymore.
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