Ignited by Education by Eileen K. Omosa

Author:Eileen K. Omosa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eileen K. Omosa

Chapter 24

Sophia’s phone rang as she walked to the kitchen to wash dishes. She took a long look at the screen and decided that touching the accept button would be breaking her promise to Joy.

For a moment, she liked her new-found courage, of getting Richie out the door, and now resisting to accept a call from Stella, her mother.

A new thought, on respecting one’s parents, left Sophia wishing she had accepted the call from her mother. On further thought, she asked herself what type of message she would be communicating, if not that she accepts phone calls at any time of day, even when she was sup-posed to be busy at work?

Sophia loved her mother. She would have liked to talk with her at any time of day. But only if it was on different matters, other than being asked to abandon her PA job, and travel home to get married.

She reflected on how best to convince her parents that she was now an adult, old enough to be a mother, if she so wished.

Thinking of children, Sophia asked herself if she ever planned to have children of her own. She acknowledged that babies are cute, especially if parents could provide for all their needs. Children grow into young people, and one day, be inundated with constant phone calls from parents, the way her mother had been calling her.

Lost in thought on what type of mother she would make, Sophia held a cup under running water for too long. Would she turn out like her mother, calling her daughter about marriage? She poured water out of the overflowing cup and placed it on the drying rack in the ad-jacent sink.

She picked up a handful of spoons and held them under the running water, while she questioned herself how she could think about children, before she solved her current problem concerning men. Which of the families chasing after her hand for marriage would she say yes to, and on what basis?

Her stream of thoughts was in rhythm with the speed of water out of the tap into the sink, after hitting the spoons in her left hand. Sophia’s mind was busy; thinking about Cleophas, the teacher, the man her father wanted her to marry, for stability, as he had called it.

What Sophia knew about teachers was from her years as a student at her primary and secondary schools. The married teachers lived together with their wives and children at the teachers’ residential side with-in the school compound. In most cases, the wives were teachers at a nursery section of the school, or at another nearby school. For a few other teachers, the wives were nurses at the local dispensary.

The families appeared stable, though there were whispers among students, on which male teacher liked to stare at schoolgirls. And there were a few cases of a teacher caught with a girl in his house, while the wife was away at work, at the market or visiting family.

Reflecting, Sophia could not recall of any teacher who had married a wife who worked in town, at the government offices.

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