I'm A Confused Man
Mental Health America, MHA
I was to go on an excursion with my students and I asked them to pay some amount of money. The excursion was to come up in the fourth week, and I told them the deadline would be in the third week. I told them the first week we resumed the session. After the first week, no one paid. I was hoping to see alerts, but to my surprise, the students failed to pay the money. I tried to announce it again in the second week, and they all agreed, but somehow they failed to pay the money in the second week.
The third week came, and they still refused to pay the money. I told them we would postpone the excursion until further notice.
The fourth week arrived, and no one spoke about the excursion. I had forgotten about it for so long, just because it's the fifth week. In the fifth week, the principal reminded me of the excursion and rescheduled it to happen in week seven. This is a midterm break period. The students were still happy, but I was less concerned about it. I did not even place my mind on the excursion any longer.
At the end of week six, which was a Friday night, I had a dream about receiving some money in my bank account repeatedly from some unknown persons. When I woke up, I knew it was just a dream but was somehow real. Not too long ago, I saw my phone beeped just like a message. I checked it and was shocked after seeing #10,000. After five minutes, another alert came in and was #4,000 from someone I did not know. It was not up to 10 minutes again, another alert came in with the same amount (#4,000).
I was just wondering who was sending me that money and at the same time was happy as my dream had started to manifest.
I woke up late at night and took my phone wanting to go to ease myself, what I saw got me amazed. Likewise, I saw 50 people sending the same amount (#4,000). Likewise, I was not ready to tell my wife just because of the way the money was entering. Likewise, I said to myself, "I did not do the money ritual and how come I'm receiving too many alerts on my phone?”
I was restless and did not know what to do. When it was morning, I checked the phone again and saw yet once more 70 people sending the same amount to my phone. I wanted to keep it a secret and started spending the money all alone. I paid all the debt I was owing and yet was left with a tangible amount of money. Furthermore, I started sending money to my siblings, who had called for money earlier. Not only that, but I bought a bag of rice and some other foodstuffs for the house. My wife was wondering where I got the money from, but I had to ask her to just enjoy herself. She was so curious to know and started raising her voice.
I later told her how the money got into my account. She said I would have left the money without touching it for some days or months before spending it. I was not ready to listen.
It was Monday and I had to be prepared and go to work. I got to school feeling so happy. As I approached the gate, one of the students interceded me and said, “Master, did you see the money I sent to you? It's the excursion money”.
After hearing this, my legs began to shake, and I was unable to greet my colleagues and even see people as if they were not around.
Four students came to me again and said, “Master, we sent you our excursion money two days ago. Did you see it? When are we going?”
Answering the questions was just not of me. I didn't know what to do or where to get the money from.
I could not wait until closing, and I even pretended I was sick and went home.
First published on HIVE