Popular Nigerian screenwriter, Michael Ogah has revealed that he constantly felt sad and even attempted suicide as a child because he was always compared to other kids because he was intelligent.
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He made this known in a recent social media post adding that he even wrote a letter to God, begging him to make him better academically.
His post reads;
“As a child I had sad eyes, and I cried a lot. I remember writing a letter to God one night prep.
Soon after I excused myself from class and folded the letter into a paper airplane I sent to the sky.
In the letter I asked God to make me, not the most intelligent kid in my class, but fairly okay (because I had been coming last in class for too long and I was tired of feeling like a failure).
The next morning, I was sweeping the back of my classroom when I saw my letter in the grass. It was all crumpled and beaten by rain. “God never got my letter, He never got it. I will never be intelligent,” I wept.
All that is in the past now, but I can’t help seeing my younger self in children of nowadays.
I hear parents say to their children, “Why won’t you just be like your brother or your sister” and my heart breaks.
I think back to times I sat on the floor in my mother’s kitchen as a ten year old with a knife to my stomach.
I wanted to end harsh words thrown at me; words like “Why are you so weak?” Or “ Why are you so dumb?”
When I started writing I wanted to portray the beauty of weakness, and to date I don’t care what anybody thinks about it.
Happy new month, everyone, and to parents in the house, please be kind with your words; children are fragile, handle them with care.”
Source: ghgossip.com
