Some Guys Have All the Luck
Sammy was no ordinary student.
Some guys have all the luck
Some guys have all the pain
Some guys get all the breaks
Some guys do nothing but complain
Alone in a crowd on a bus after work
and I'm dreaming
The guy next to me has a girl in his arms
My arms are empty
How does it feel when the girl next to you
says she loves you
It seems so unfair when there's love everywhere
but there's none for me
source: Some Guys Have all the Luck, a song by Rod Stewart
Humble Beginnings
Sammy was one of those guys that had all the pain. His life started with the death of his mother so he only knew her from pictures. If he had to plan it, things would have been different but he did not have any choice. Most times, when he met new friends and he told them that he never knew his mother, he always wished he could wipe the pity off their faces by adding, "... But my father more than made up for it..."
But he would be lying if he said that his father made up for the absence of his mother. Stories had it that his father was a decent man that worked as an accountant prior to his mother's demise. And that's it... Story had it. In all the time Sammy had known him, he was a mean, hopeless drunk with no sense of responsibility whatsoever. He often looked at him and tried to imagine him as an accountant. Finally, Sammy decided that his imagination was either too weak or the burden he was placing on it, too big.
However bad things were, Sammy's father was the reason Sammy had big dreams. He represented everything Sammy did not want to be. But wishing that things were different did not make them so. Everything he ever wanted, he had to fight tooth and nail, through blood and sweat to get them. He had never known what it was to be catered for.
His father had literally dumped him with his aunt Emilia, his dad's only sister, who had two children at the time. She nursed him until he was old enough to walk, old enough to be returned to his father. He did not know much to remember everything that happened those days but the curiosity of how he managed to get old enough living with a drunken father and no mother, revealed a lot to him from the mouths of strangers.
He could remember his first job. He was four years old. It consisted helping Mr Alanso remove chaff from cereals. Mr Alanso was a physically challenged man in Sammy's neighbourhood those days. He had a local store where he sold all kinds of grains: beans, rice, corn, millet and so on. Most of these came straight from local farms who did not have the equipment to properly process their produce. Sammy's work was to manually separate the chaff from the cereals. For his service, Mr Alanso, an unscrupulous businessman, often paid him with a meal.
Sammy went from that to a thousand other jobs as he went through secondary school. After secondary school, he spent another three years working in construction sites, working as a manual loader for trucks that hauled sand and gravel from a quarry to building construction sites.
Whenever he did not have a job from either construction sites or as a loader, he worked at the quarry. Due to all this hard labour, his big hands became calloused and made his grip feel like a wrench and his body carved out of stone. But he had a goal of going to school so he stayed out of trouble as much as he could. Another consequence of having to work so hard from such a young age was his complete lack of friends. He had never had a girlfriend. The girls who weren't afraid of him because he looked like a prizefighter, stayed away from him because they felt he had nothing to offer them. Well, all that would change in the university: he was going to start afresh with a blank slate.
The Blank Slate
Finally, he has made it to the University to study civil engineering. Having done several labour-intensive jobs at building sites, he became fascinated with buildings and the careful planning that went into them. He was supposed to be excited to be finally here but thinking about all he went through to get here, took all the excitement out of it.
Trouble Sleeps
Sammy was a fresher at the University of Nigeria. He was barely two weeks in the school when he went to the bar just outside the school campus to rest after a hard day's work. He never liked drinking much but he found it helped him take the edge off.
In the bar, there were about eighteen students seated at various tables. The bar was crowded. The sound of Bob Marley's Redemption Song was coming out of the speakers. At the end of the bar, stood a very beautiful girl at smiling at him. He looked at her but was not convinced that she was looking at him. He followed her eyes and looked at the space after him but there was no one after him. He walked over to her, his heart in his hands, and invited her to join him at his table.
"My name is Sammy," he said. "If I didn't just come in, I would say that I'm drunk and the alcohol is messing with my head. Aren't you the most beautiful girl ever!"
The girl just kept smiling as he guided her to his table and they sat down. "Please, may I know your name?" he asked.
"I'm Grace," she said, smiling. "I thought you'd never ask."
He had barely sat down to drink his Guinness stout when someone touched him on the shoulder and said, "Walk!"
The bar was growing cold and quiet gradually. He did not bother to turn around and look at the person but he looked around the bar and realised that the there were about three other boys walking around the bar and telling people the same single word, "Walk."
He looked at Grace and realised that her colour had changed. She was visibly shaken and scared. There was none of that initial light he saw in her eyes.
"Are you alright, Grace?" he asked.
"No, I'm sorry but we have to leave here, immediately. Those guys walking around are dangerous. They are monsters," she said.
"No, I'm the monster," he thought. He asked her who they were.
"They are members of a fraternity which students around school generally referred to as cults," she said. These fraternities had existed in Nigerian schools since the 1960's but only recently did they turn violent and oppressive. Sammy listened quietly while measuring up the five guys at the end of the bar, still chasing other students out. He told Grace to calm down and that everything would be alright. She wanted a bottle of water so he ordered one for her.
He took a drink from the bottle of stout and placed it back on the table. Immediately, one of the boys returned and tapped him on the should again, "Was it not you that I asked to leave here?" he asked. Sammy neither spoke nor looked up but he was having extreme difficulty holding himself together as he was boiling over in anger. He was seated with his elbows on the table. With the nail of his right forefinger, he repeatedly knocked on his front teeth making a strange knocking sound in the now eerily quiet bar.
The boy picked up his bottle of drink and poured the liquid content on Sammy's head. Strangely, the beer on his head calmed him down a little. Sammy ignored him. Instead, he asked the bar attendant to bring him another bottle of beer. As soon as the drink was served, the fraternity boy took the bottle and broke it on Sammy's head. Grace jumped from her seat in shock as the beer and Sammy blood mixed and flowed freely down his face, staining his dress. Yet, he did not move.
"Please, let me have a bottle of coke," Sammy ordered in calm but slightly trembling voice. The bottle had barely touched the table when it flew into Sammy's hand. Breaking the bottle on the floor and pushing it into the fraternal boy's chest happened in one swift movement. The clutched his wounded chest and fell.
Then Sammy stood up and looked around, "Who hit me?" was all he asked. The other four boys ran away from the bar with the speed of sound, leaving their friend writhing in pain on the floor. At their heels was Grace, not chasing them but going for safety. She could not decide which was the more terrifying - the boys or Sammy. She ran as fast as her legs could carry her.
Sammy lifted the wounded boy and carried him on his shoulders to the school clinic. He dropped him at the reception and left without a word. The blood on his face was too much to allow for any reasonable identification. He went home and washed, then applied first aid on his head.
Sammy did not know, but his name was circulated around the school as One Man Squad and everyone was afraid of him. The low profile he so desperately wanted to maintain was out of the window.
But becoming popular did not bother him as much as the fact that Grace would not talk to him. She avoided him like a plague for months, afraid that he was the worst kind of the dreaded cult boys. Eventually, Sammy met Grant, who was a boyfriend to Grace's roommate. Through Grant, Sammy indirectly communicated to Grace.
It took Sammy the rest of the year to convince Grace that he was neither a cult member nor a violent person. After persistent persuasion, she finally agreed to be his girlfriend. The first time they kissed, it seemed to Sammy that a special kind of sun had been shone upon the earth, giving everything a special kind of colour that he hadn't noticed before.
Gradually, she helped him forget the hell he went through to get there. He found a new reason to be alive and this gave him the motivation he needed to study well and graduate among the best in his class. Of course, he still had to work to support himself through school but it was a different kind of work and he was happier than he had ever been. He tutored his fellow students, supervised small projects and drew plans for clients.
"What do you know," he thought. "There is life on this planet after all."
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Original short fiction authored by @churchboy
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We must know that life is fair
No matter how difficult
God will not oppress anyone
And each has his chance and opportunities to prove his metal
A good story .. Thank you for sharing
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It's impossible to explain and I have learnt not to think about it too much. The fact remains at some point we would all get at least one opportunity. Take it !
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Yes it's true , being born anywhere in Africa could be considered a setback when you consider the limitless opportunities available to people in Europe or America but as expertly advised in the story. Do not be limited by your background.
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Great post! Love the content!
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Nobody has all the luck.
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one man army
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Some... i wish i fit that catergory lol
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Is this content worth $577.96 STU? I read it. It was ok. Does @churchboy get the full amount, since, like, it's his story? Or is this an AD? sactly...
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Hello @artopium, I would like to tell you that the post is worth $577.96 but I don't think it is payout day yet so I expect that the upvotes would increase.
I write stories for the adsactly blog and I have been doing that for a while. I am grateful, no make it extremely grateful to be here on Steemit where my voice is worth something. I like to write stories and it is easy for me. This post must have taken me about two hours to put together. As I lie here in bed wondering what it is worth, I couldn't help but wonder what it would be worth if I posted it on Facebook or instagram.
So I think worth is a question of where the story was posted and when it was posted. It could be completely worthless or it could be worth something substantial. One thing is certain, it was worth, perhaps 20 likes on Facebook before June 2016.
As I said before, I enjoy writing for @adsactly and my reward is not quantifiable. What I have found in cryptocurrency and especially the steemit blockchain is that what you get almost always equivalent to the value you have provided. This is supposed to hold true in life also, but the playing ground is skewed and crooked in favour of the few. On blockchain, the playing ground is more level.
Of course, it can never really be a level playing ground because our stakes are different. Fortunately, nothing is cast in stone. You can be whatever you want to be. I hope I have answered your questions. If you are not sure what my answer is, I shall recap: I am very happy to write for Adsactly for all the financial and non-financial rewards. I would rather continue doing so. Without adsactly, I would probably never have met you.
Thank you for your questions and thank you for visiting our blog. You're appreciated.
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I think your response is worth even more. You're clearly a writer. The story is a great story and will affect us differently, well because humans are not robots. Keep putting pen to paper.
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Thanks for your comments. Yes, we are not robots and that complicates things. I am glad you like the writing.
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Brother i loved it !!!
It is more worth than 1k !
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Thank you.
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Great stuff on this blog! Keep it going!
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Asking the right questions :)
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Wow, great write-up...
From what I have seen, Sammy is a strong and independent man.. One man squad as you said..
If I were in Grace's place, I would have done the same thing because at first, it was scary for a guy to face a whole squad alone and was able to win.
And yes "there's a life on this earth after all"
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Heey @adsactly, I nearly upvoted all your posts!! I really enjoy them.
I also voted for @adsactly-witness!
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You're awesome. Thank you.
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I like how you wrote earth and not a planet when repeating.
We can't trust what the propaganda machine is telling us. The earth could as well be flat.
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Yeah. Thanks :)
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Thank you so much for reading. Yeah Sammy is a strong young man. He became strong by overcoming adversities and seeing each as an opportunity for growth. You're awesome @endee
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Great story!
Sammy has a great character, I wish I could meet this guy. He went through a lot. But everything he has, he deserves only because of being him!
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Yes I agree. He is awesome but it is just a story.
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Hers the link register and copyright your writtings... Just incase some of yall didnt know where to go.. You guys are BRILLIANT thinkers.....
https://www.copyright.gov/registration/
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Wow. Nice. Thank you.
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Nice post dude. ever sense i got on steemit i have been following yo and you spend a lot of work in all yo posts so, thanks a lot.
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Thanks
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I have my own short story! too!
it called ''Fortunes and Obligations''
just check me out to read it yourself, the story is strictly for kids because uts a student-english project of mine which i am 13-year old, grade-8
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Luck comes and goes. You have to persevere and do not despair. Life without effort has no meaning. Be strong and trust in yourself. I wish you happiness my dear brother. Thank you
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Thanks
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Nice one. Very intriguing.
Just about when I read the few first lines, I said to myself, "This could only happen in Nigeria my country " and hell yeah I wasn't wrong when I saw Nigeria in the middle of the story. Lol.
But this story has alot to teach us. We should never let our poor background keep our back to the ground. Hustle and believe in yourself. Those trying times are just to get us ready for a brighter tomorrow just like gold passes through fire to get purified and brighter. Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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Pressure makes diamond much harder than stone and it only gets brighter as each day goes by. You're right about challenges being opportunities for growth. We can only see them as such, though if we first see ourselves as people that were put on this earth to achieve some great purpose that can only be achieved by us.
With this attitude of I'm special and I'm destined to achieve some great purpose, nothing can bring you down.
Yes, I live in Nigeria and I prefer to write stories with Nigerian context because, even though I know what happens elsewhere, I prefer to leave people from those places to write about their place. Nigeria is big enough for me.
Thank you so much for being here. Your comments mean the world to me. Take care and see you some other time.
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This is my story too as i claim it in Jesus Name. Amen.. as a follower @adsactly I'm voting for as STeem witness.
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Thank you so much. Go ahead and vote @adsactly-witness. We are grateful for the support.
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Good one.It very nice blog.Full of exact logic educative value, content over all just love
Thank you
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Thank you
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What a heart touching story! These kinds of stories are always so motivating and inspiring. It shows that not everyone is born "lucky". Life can hit you hard since you're born and it might seem like there is no hope in life. But some people never give up and manage to get through all the rough times with ambition and dedication to reach their goals. In the end, everyone can find something worth living for. Hope can always be restored, if only you keep on fighting in this game of life...
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You hit the nail squarely on the heart. We are totally responsible for how we choose to view the things that happen to us. That power is still completely within our control.
Thank you for your comments. Following you now.
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Sammie.
Wonderful story, it is very relatable. Beautifully written too
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It was a great great story , even though life is so unfair. We have to keep moving , failure is not a hindrance yet failure is a success coz we learn something from it. Even though life is changig, we have to fight for ourselves
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Thanks a lot.
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Oh, my friend! Very cool post, Good brother! I like it! Good work. If you interest. You can see on my article. There I appeal to the Steemit.
There I tell about my true experience by 2 years on Steemit:
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True
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I found this inspirational. Thank you.
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You right beautifully despite a story being a sad one.
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I AM REALLY INSPIRED! AND ALWAYS RESPECT THOSE WHO EARN SOMETHING NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR LITTLE IT IS. I AM CALCULATING THE EFFORT HE OR SHE PUT FORWARD INTO THAT. THIS IS LIKE THE ONE OLD PROVERB THAT SAYS " OUR GLORY IS NOT IN THAT WE NEVER FAILED , IT IS IN THE RISE EVERYTIME WE FAILED"
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..love... we have our own story about love it depends upon how we make it
#love it
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awesome story, Sammy played a great character, I think we should make a serial on this story and like this onwards I think this character will be appreciated by the audience. as he went through a lot.
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Talented, granted love your work
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Thank you
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Sammy you're the best
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Thanks
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There is life indeed, sometimes we alienate ourselves.
We must feel lucky we get to that eye-opening moment and move forward.
Stay strong people
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Is wonderful good job
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wow amazing keep it up
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quit funny though :p
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I wish Sammy great live, he deserves it.
There is so menu Sammy’s in this world. Great guy with great ❤️.
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Wow
Great piece.
Ive been inspired. ...
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Nice story
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This is an excellent post. love it !!!
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Heey @adsactly, I nearly upvoted all your posts!! I really enjoy them.
I also voted for @adsactly-witness!
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Wow,,, very good one,,, l like your post man.
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Great story! Very touching and emotional. I love the content and how the story was pieced together to pass a message. Kudos to the author. Wowwww! Keep steeming. Hard work pays.
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NICE WRITING I VOTE
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Really inspired by Sammy 👋
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a very moving story, I salute you a friend who can survive despite being hit by trials. You are my inspiration.
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This an interesting content, this show how courageous Sammy his and never give up to face his challenge.
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Aunque la historia pareciera ficticia, creo que hay realidad en muchas de las cosas que escribes. El querer tener ha alguien a nuestro lado es una necesidad vital. Ya llegará. Siempre alguien llega lo importantes es esperar el momento felicitaciones sigue escribiendo lo haces bien.
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Lovely story.enjoyed it very much.@absactly
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Nice lyric! I enjoyed reading your post and thank you for sharing it with us!
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:) thank you do much. I'm glad you liked it.
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good friends story ...
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dear @adsactly how are you ,i believed that you are very happy man for steemit earning , i am a steemit worker i help you for your up vote becous i am new my earning is very low if you help me some vote every day i have done your poste up vote follow & restime so i believed that you do every day my poste upvote follow & restime than i will be very benifited thanks a lot of @adsactly
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I wish I could meet this guy. He went through a lot, Sammy is a strong and independent man
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What a great and intense story. I really feel sorry for Sammy as he never got to meet his mother for once and his father being a burden to him makes the story really emotional. Some people born with silver spoons at some point do not appreciate what they have or get tired of what they are offered by their rich parents not knowing people like Sammy wished they had such opportunity. I admire the fact that Sammy stayed strong, focused and he never gave up but instead took what he went through as a motivation to be better then his father and do well for himself. Great story
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Thank you so much. You captured the reality of life. Nothing more to be said. You're appreciated.
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Wow . nice
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Sammy is really a good person in your story. Keep sharing it really has a good lesson for everyone. Thanks @adsactly
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an excellent story. thanks..
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Amazing write up. I was wondering if this based on true story?
Great Sammy. Cool head.
Thank you for sharing.
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Sammy is a product of courage, focus and determination...
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Excelente post soja en la comunidad me ayuda con un voto estare agradecida
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Great story...Thank's for share @adsactly
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Wow....that was a deep story....its a very good one sire....thanks for the inspiration and also your writing skills is not of this world...very perfect.
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Una historia q nos sirve para reflexionar... Excelente post gracias x compartir... Te invito a visitar mi blog..
Saludos y abrazos
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Hey! I love this.
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Awesome story of someone who aspired to be what he set out to be in his dreams, which become a reality. @churchboy Real role model individual, checked out some of your stuff btw looks pretty good, went ahead and gave you a follow. Keep up the good work here !!
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Your comment humbles me. I have followed you too and I shall check out your content too. Amazing people create amazing content because you can't offer what you don't have. Thank you for your amazingness.
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Much love and gratitude from me, that's why I am here... to form a movement, there is no reason to otherwise succumb to anything which may be negative on this platform (which is very few and far between). I appreciate your follow, stay tuned some good content shall be coming around the corner. Stay Irieeee @churchboy
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Thank you. I look forward to it. Stay superb!
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This is a touching story :'(
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You are very gifted writer! Wishing you continued success here!
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Man... great story!
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life is not fair
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So captivating
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I always your work... You are doing great job... Very informative blog... Keep up the good work
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Great story, we used to talk about it, when i was in high school
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Nice post :) I loved to read that :)
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Great your story and nice pict
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My Taekwondo Master one day ask me when we were training, there is one thing in life that can take you everywhere around the word. What will that be? I think and thought many ways buh did not get it right and he said is Humility. Humble can take you everywhere in life on this earth. I follow every story you write for @adsactly @churchboy
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It's a story to be learned, every problem is an opportunity in disguise. 💪🏽
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yeah that is what i was searching
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Good
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WHAT! His first job was at the age of 4??? Wow! First of all I must say this is awesome. I was expecting more though I mean I didn't see the end coming yet. What he did was really brave, for a moment I wondered why he reacted that way to all the violences at first, not all guys will be patient enough to be hit with a 3rd bottle before they react. Glad he pulled through despite all the hardships he went through. Still shocked at the age he starting working though. Well done sir.
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Wao, great write up and interesting reading through. Looking forward to a time I will be comfortable writing long piece such as this myself. keep up the good work.
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touching story.
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nice
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nice
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hey @adsactly !!
i really enjoyed your work . keep it up:)
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Good content and quite an interesting read. Thanks a lot.
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Great story
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Well, it's an OK story. I feel sad about Sammy, hope his children don't experience same things he did.
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It just played out in my head like an actual movie. Nice one bruh, looking forward to the sequel.
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Good, cautionary tale.
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https://steemit.com/life/@smmurad119/i-love-my-fader#comments
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Congratulations @adsactly!
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Wow this is awesome picture
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it's damn good. just loved it
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Upvote me @irwansyah883
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I read the whole story which doesn't happen very often. Maybe because I could relate to Sammy in a way.
Thanks for sharing this story with us!
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This story shows that even when there are downs in life, you should never loose hope, as sun always shine the brightest after raining.
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I love it when I find great articles on this site.
I am really tired of FaceBook content, so I came to this site and for the first month I was not able to find anything interesting for me. Finally the time spent here is paying of. I wanna thank everyone who takes their time to create something really worth reading!
Thank you for posting it! :)
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