A story of a fast food restaurant owner who manage the business by him self.

A pretty young lady walk into his restaurant to eat, she requested for fried rice with chicken and fanta,.



The attendant who happens to be the owner provides her request( fried rice with chicken and fanta)While she was eating her food he went outside to buy three additional malt to serve her, she replied who ask you to add malt he said I decided to add the malt and further and said to lady you don't need to pay for food, she smile and said wao, he said because you are beautiful! In the process of toasting her , her hubby came into the restaurant and said baby are you done with your meal?

She replied yes dear.

The owner of the fast food restaurant put his hand on his head and said BAD INVESTMENT.

Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. A preface by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child makes a similar case for the book and states that the events it records are true.

Jacobs uses the pseudonym Linda Brent to narrate her first-person account. Born into slavery, Linda spends her early years in a happy home with her mother and father, who are relatively well-off slaves. When her mother dies, six-year-old Linda is sent to live with her mother’s mistress, who treats her well and teaches her to read. After a few years, this mistress dies and bequeath Linda to a relative. Her new masters are cruel and neglectful, and Dr. Flint, the father, soon begins pressuring Linda to have a sexual relationship with him. Linda struggles against Flint’s overtures for several years. He pressures and threatens her, and she defies and outwit him. Knowing that Flint will eventually get his way, Linda consents to a love affair with a white neighbor, Mr. Sands, saying that she is ashamed of this illicit relationship but finds it preferable to being raped by the loathsome Dr. Flint. With Mr. Sands, she has two children, Benny and Ellen. Linda argues that a powerless slave girl cannot be held to the same standards of morality as a free woman. She also has practical reasons for agreeing to the affair: she hopes that when Flint finds out about it, he will sell her to Sands in disgust. Instead, the vengeful Flint sends Linda to his plantation to be broken in as a field hand.



When she discovers that Benny and Ellen are to receive similar treatment, Linda hatches a desperate plan. Escaping to the North with two small children would be impossible. Unwilling to submit to Dr. Flint’s abuse, but equally unwilling to abandon her family, she hides in the attic crawl space in the house of her grandmother, Aunt Martha. She hopes that Dr. Flint, under the false impression that she has gone North, will sell her children rather than risk having them disappear as well. Linda is overjoyed when Dr. Flint sells Benny and Ellen to a slave trader who is secretly representing Mr. Sands. Mr. Sands promises to free the children one day and sends them to live with Aunt Martha. But Linda’s triumph comes at a high price. The longer she stays in her tiny garret, where she can neither sit nor stand, the more physically debilitated she becomes. Her only pleasure is to watch her children through a tiny peephole, as she cannot risk letting them know where she is. Mr. Sands marries and becomes a congressman. He brings Ellen to Washington, D.C., to look after his newborn daughter, and Linda realizes that Mr. Sands may never free her children. Worried that he will eventually sell them to slave traders, she determines that she must somehow flee with them to the North. However, Dr. Flint continues to hunt for her, and escape remains too risky.

After seven years in the attic, Linda finally escapes to the North by boat. Benny remains with Aunt Martha, and Linda is reunited with Ellen, who is now nine years old and living in Brooklyn, New York. Linda is dismayed to find that her daughter is still held in virtual slavery by Mr. Sands’s cousin, Mrs. Hobbs. She fears that Mrs. Hobbs will take Ellen back to the South, putting her beyond Linda’s reach forever. She finds work as a nursemaid for a New York City family, the Bruces, who treat her very kindly. Dr. Flint continues to pursue Linda, and she flees to Boston. There, she is reunited with Benny. Dr. Flint now claims that the sale of Benny and Ellen was illegitimate, and Linda is terrified that he will re-enslave all of them. After a few years, Mrs. Bruce dies, and Linda spends some time living with her children in Boston. She spends a year in England caring for Mr. Bruce’s daughter, and for the first time in her life she enjoys freedom from racial prejudice. When Linda returns to Boston, Ellen goes to boarding school and Benny moves to California with Linda’s brother William. Mr. Bruce remarries, and Linda takes a position caring for their new baby. Dr. Flint dies, but his daughter, Emily, writes to Linda to claim ownership of her. The Fugitive Slave Act is passed by Congress, making Linda extremely vulnerable to kidnapping and re-enslavement.

Emily Flint and her husband, Mr. Dodge, arrive in New York to capture Linda. Linda goes into hiding, and the new Mrs. Bruce offers to purchase her freedom. Linda refuses, unwilling to be bought and sold yet again, and makes plans to follow Benny to California. Mrs. Bruce buys Linda anyway. Linda is devastated at being sold and furious with Emily Flint and the whole slave system. However, she says she remains grateful to Mrs. Bruce, who is still her employer when she writes the book. She notes that she still has not yet realized her dream of making a home for herself and her children to share.

MISSION, Kan., June 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (Family Features) People living with Graves’ disease have a lot to focus on. The disease, an autoimmune disorder that causes an overproduction of the thyroid hormone, causes a variety of troublesome symptoms, many of which can happen with other diseases, leading to misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis. Some common symptoms include anxiety, tremors, heat sensitivity, weight loss, hair loss, change in menstrual cycle and irregular heartbeat.

A related, yet separate condition that is important for people living with Graves’ to focus on is Thyroid Eye Disease (TED), a serious, progressive and vision-threatening autoimmune disorder affecting up to half of the Graves’ community. In support of Graves’ Disease Awareness Month, Horizon Therapeutics and patient advocacy organization Prevent Blindness are working together to help people living with Graves’ understand their risk for TED and how to manage symptoms if they appear. Spotting the signs and symptoms of TED early can help decrease the chances of serious, and potentially permanent, eye damage.

If You or Someone You Love Has Graves’ Disease, It’s Time to Focus on Eye Health

The first step is to understand your risk for TED. Primary risk factors include gender, age and smoking status. Women are five times more likely than men to develop TED, but men are at greater risk for more severe symptoms. The disease also occurs most often in people between the ages of 40-49 and 60-69 years old, and people who smoke are eight times more likely to develop TED.

The next step is to observe the symptoms. TED causes inflammation and pressure behind the eyes that lead to symptoms such as sensitivity to light, a feeling of grittiness in the eyes, excessive tearing, swelling of the eyelids, redness and irritation. As the disease progresses, symptoms may include eye bulging, eye misalignment and double vision. All of these symptoms can reduce a person’s independence, ability to work and self-confidence.

“The profound physical changes to my appearance were devastating,” said Christine Gustafson, who has lived with Graves’ and TED for more than 10 years. “I did not recognize myself and actually frightened others as my face was transformed by TED. After years of living alone with this rare autoimmune disorder, I discovered a community of others with TED. Connecting with the right specialist and other TED patients was life-changing in the absolute best ways.”

Getting the Care You Need

If you have Graves’ disease and suspect you might have TED or notice changes in your eyes, you should contact an eye specialist who has experience treating TED. These include ophthalmologists, neuro-ophthalmologists and oculoplastic surgeons.

After receiving a TED diagnosis, resources can be used to stay informed and take action. For example, a symptom tracker can help monitor disease progression and alert your doctor to any changes.

It is important to be your own best advocate and speak up for the care you deserve. Tips for getting the right care include not downplaying symptoms when at the doctor’s office, asking questions to ensure all treatment options are presented, and bringing a friend or loved one along to provide support and help take notes during the appointment.

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said “it is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you” the young executives were shocked. But the boss continued. I am going to give each of a seed today-one very special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it, and bring back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plant that you bring and one I choose will be the next CEO” one man, named Jim was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed.

He went home and told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot soil and compost and he planted the seed. Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks went by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but Jim didn’t have a plant and he felt like a failure.

Six months went by-still nothing in Jim’s pot. He just knew he must have killed his seed but he didn’t say anything to his colleagues.

He just kept watering and fertilizing the soil. The year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn’t going to take an empty pot, but she encouraged him to be honest about what happened.

Jim felt sick in his stomach. It was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right.

He took his empty pot to the board room, when he arrived he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives. Jim held his empty pot and many of his colleagues laughed at him. When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives; Jim just tried to hide at the back. “My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown” said the ECO” today one of you will be appointed the next CEO! Then he spotted Jim at the back of the room with his empty pot.

He order the financial director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought “now he knows I’m a failure! Maybe I’ll be fired! When he got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed. Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to site down! Except Jim. Then he announces “behold your next chief executives! His name is Jim!. Jim couldn’t believe it Jim couldn’t even grow his seed how could he be the new CEO? The others said. Then the CEO said “one year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds they were dead- it was not possible for them to grow, all of you except Jim, have brought me trees, plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one who will be the new CEO! if you plant honesty, you will reap trust, if you plant goodness, you will reap friend, if you plant humility you will reap greatness, if you plant perseverance you will reap contentment, if you plant consideration, you will reap perspective, if you plant hard work, you will reap success, if you plant forgiveness you will reap reconciliation, if you plant faith, you will reap a harvest. Always be careful what you plant now because it will determine what you will reap later.

The charge was from the story of my life.

Have been married for seven years, I was nineteen when I meet my husband. Though we are friends at first before he proposed to marry me and one of his dreams has always want to be a solider so he enrolled some month after our wedding , we have a beautify time but we had no children.

The story my journey into Christianity started when my husband was transfer from osogbo to Ilorin, you know has a soldier he was been transferred from one state to another. But when he was transferred to Ilorin, He ask me to go with him? At first I disagreed, because all my life was at Osogbo my family lives there, everything about me was at Osogbo , but as a Muslim then, I had no choice than to go with him, because our religion opposes wife going against whatever their husband says.

So I had to follow him, on getting there (Ilorin) I was so bored I knew nobody, so I was only at home alone whenever my husband was on duty.

I was being to settle in when my husband was transfer again from Ilorin.

This transfer was just eight month after his previous one, this one came as a shock to both of us but he had no choice than to go and I couldn’t leave Ilorin as at time, because have started my adult education, so he left Ilorin leaving me alone at Ilorin.

Guest what?

He transferred to borno to fight bokoharam.

Ah….

When he left, I was all alone very bored, but after sometimes, I started a relationship with a man called Ade. During the relationship between Ade and I, I knew it was wrong, infact I was wronged, but I turned deaf ears, after sometime the unexpected happened, I became pregnant, I told ade about the pregnancy. Ade told me to abort it.

You know, what I did was totally wrong ‘’ SLEEPING WITH AOTHER MAN WAS WRONG’’ But to abort was a terrible ideal.

I cried terribly for days for the mess I found myself in, how will I face my husband with another man child, it was on head up, I went back home that day all tired and drained.

I knew my husband was going to be home few weeks from that time, though we spoke on phone, but I couldn’t bold myself to tell him what have done.

When it was two days to the time my husband will be back to Ilorin I wrote a long letter telling him about everything have done, but I couldn’t face the shame of looking him in the eyes to tell him what have done.

I wrote a letter asking for his forgiveness, obviously I wasn’t expecting him to forgive me, I drop the letter on the center table and I left for Lagos to stay with my friend of mine, I know he had read the letter because he continually called me, but I couldn’t picked his calls, so he stop calling and he cried.

One morning , five days after my husband got back to Ilorin I woke to received a text message on my phone Darling comeback home I still love you, I wasn’t sure of what I read so I gave my friend to read it for me. It was the same, I didn’t reply or call back, because I didn’t believed what he wrote there, because my husband have not used the word I LOVE YOU. For a long time, I was baffled, couple with the fact that, that was the time I fact I should be hated most , he sent the message again, he told me to come home, because he has forgiven me I told my friend about it, she assure me everything will be alright and she will go with me to Ilorin. So I returned to Ilorin with my friend on getting home what I saw and felt was unexpected, it was as if my husband has been addicted by different beings.

I was still in shock as he told me to rest due to my condition I thought deeply about what could have happened to my husband. At night I woke up and went to my husband in the sitting room.

He was reading the bible, he ushered me to sit immediately he was me, I was still amazed.

He said… Ah..ah my dear Maraim why are you not yet asleep? Ah ah sit down.

Then I said Usman I want to say am very sorry for everything have put you through, I made a very terrible mistake, Am sorry please.

He said actually, I should be the one to apologize, because in the first place I shouldn’t have been away from you. I placed you in a very tight situation. Am very sorry and as from now on have decided to create an abode for you to love you more than I have done in the past.

So am terribly sorry and as for the baby don’t worry I will take care of the baby, then I said ‘’really’’ he said yes, but Usman what happen?

You are very different from a man that went to borno, what change you? What happen?

That was then Usman told me about Jesus of the Christians, he told me how he meet Jesus and how he was deliver from death, he introduce Christ to me, in fact he told me. It was Jesus that told him to forgive me in his dream.

The love my husband has showed me since then can never be compare to the one he has ever showed me since we married.

He introduce Jesus to me and have a better life since then, he received me with the pregnancy, I gave birth to a baby girl, he named the baby IFEOLUWA.

God show me unconditional love and forgive me through my husband and since then. Have been encouraging people to know God.

The members of the Praise Band had by now become exhausted. They had been singing for almost straight three hours. The groom, Frank, was a band member too. So they had actually prepared to give their own the very best ministration. But it was now almost time for the reception, yet the groom had not showed up. The congregation was quite restless. Had the groom suddenly forgotten it was his wedding day? Or had something befallen him? Uncertainty was written all over their faces. But one thing that was sure was that he told his friends and the bride, Anita, that he was going somewhere but would definitely return.

The family of the bride were the most worried. Should Frank not show up at all, how would they contain the shame taking Anita back into their house? This morning, Anita's father and mother had called her to themselves and bid her farewell concluding with some words of advice. And when she was finally set for the church she went and knelt down before them to receive their final blessings. Now how would they take back that which they had given out long ago, though if not physically but in their minds?

Anita was sweating profusely. To say she was uncomfortable was to say the least. She was visibly shivering. What degree of embarrassment! She knew some of her friends envied her greatly. She could, even in her distress, notice some giggling and conspiratorial winks among them. Because some of them were even older than her and yet no one has come for their hand in marriage. She was getting married to a banker and not just an ordinary banker but a banker with the Central Bank of Nigeria.

But now it seemed everything wasn't more than a mere dream. A mirage. Only her Chief best, Maureen, was truly happy for her and also felt devastated at the negative turn of events. "Bestie, just calm down. Everything is going to be alright. He'll definitely show up. Remember he promised to" she encouraged Anita. But Anita was too emotionally destabilised to be comforted by these words.

Frank's phone lines were all switched off. All attempts to reach him proved abortive. Some friends had long been dispatched to check him in his house and his usual hangouts. Though it seemed naïve and unscrupulous looking for a groom in those places on his wedding day, they did so to merely fulfill all righteousness. Meanwhile, in the church, what was meant to be a celebration had turned into mourning and marathon prayer meeting. And the teeming crowd was gradually shrinking. Each going away to spread the news like the biblical Samaritan woman who went out proclaiming: " Come and see a man who had told me all I've ever did" only in their case it was: "Come and see a bride whose groom jilted on their wedding day!"

Anita was by now crying at a top gear despite her family's and Maureen's effort to calm her down. She had lost all hope of seeing Frank again. She was convinced he was a pathological liar. Her anger and rage for him knew no bounds. If only she would bump into him someday, she'd use her whole strength to pounce on him until she had inflicted some mortal wounds on him and disfigured his face with some ugly looking scars.

Because of the rumours circulated about by the chief "Amebos", the church started getting filled up again. Though this time around not with invited guests but uninvited ones.

In the midst of the crowd she could see Steve, the guy she jilted to marry Frank. He was a chain smoker and a womanizer. So, when Frank asked her out and she discovered he was more morally sound than Steve, she called it quits with him. Seeing him now that Frank had disappointed her added fifty pounds weight of shame on her. She wished he was not there. But she was the one who had given him an invitation and insisted that he came. He was not among the uninvited ones. She wanted him to see their elaborate wedding. Their VIP guests and everything. But now she wished she had not done so. She wished the ground could open up and shallow her up so as to shield her from the mockery of people and her shame. But wishes were not horses, you know.

Luckily, Steve moved up to her and proposed to her right there in the church. To the consternation of the whole crowd. She looked into his eyes and saw love. This is true love she thought. And though Maureen tried to prevent her from accepting the proposal, she ward her off by saying if she still believed Frank was going to come, then let her (Maureen) wait for him and marry him when he came. As for her, she is ready to go with Steve.

After he had put the ring on her finger, he carried her out and into his waiting car and together they drove to the court for a court marriage. And most of the crowd followed them, others left. Only few remained behind.

Exactly five minutes after they left, three helicopters descended on the Church premises and out from one of them came Frank, shinning and smiling in his nicely fitted designers suit. Nonplussed, the whole church which was now left with only few people ( the faithful virgins) was thrown into a dead silence.

"Sorry, Frank. Anita left just now. She was heart broken you didn't show up" Maureen wisely divulged as he walked up to them. "But I knew you were definitely going to come back that's why I waited. I tried convincing her. But she was too chagrined to listen. I'll go find her now" she said backing off to leave.

But Frank grabbed her by the hand, drew her closer to him, looked straight into her eyes and said: " You believed in me. You had no doubt I was going to come back. Though Anita had followed her ex, Steve, for another wedding, you refused to follow her. It's for you I came". At this she opened her mouth and eyes in surprise. "Who told him all this?" She wondered. "Actually it was a trial but she failed. I chartered these three choppers to take me and her and her family members to Lagos where we would then take a flight to London. For there is the real wedding venue not here. I only wanted it to be kind of a surprise. So go get your people and let's go" he said.

"I can't do this to my friend" she said. You're her husband " she rejected.

Frank chuckled and said, "Isn't she now married to Steve? You commit no crime if you marry me".He said in a relaxed tone. Yes, he had a point. Anita could not be his wife again. Had she not herself told her to marry him when he came? So she agreed.

When she was finally ready with her people and the their helicopter was about taking off, Anita came running with Steve pursuing her barefooted. She had got news of Frank's return and therefore wasn't ready to marry Steve again. But before she reached them, they had taken off already. Frank quickly wrote this note on a piece of paper and threw it down for her. It read:

" Anita, I'm sorry. You couldn't wait for me. Your weren't patient. You never truly loved me. You were only looking for any one who was available. Though, Maureen advised you to remain calm, you didn't heed her advice. Now I've taken her. She will be my bride. My wife. I wanted this to be a surprise to you that our wedding was to hold in London not here in Jalingo. But you couldn't wait. I wish you happy married life with Steve. After our honeymoon in Dubai we shall come to see you guys. Bye! London here we come"

Anita's heart was pierced. It was on fire. She fell on the ground and started rolling and wailing. And before she fainted, she gasped and said "So I missed the rapture!"

Dear reader, Jesus has a surprise for you. Don't go back to your old life (Steve) because he is tarrying His return. One day He shall surely return. Don't run away like Anita. It's almost time!

Life is like a rainbow. Multi-colored, multi-Splendor-ed things in which the joy of sunshine and tears of the rainbow are reflected equally when we see the whole picture of the sky with the rainbow, we can appreciate it similarly, and the real joy of life is not simply when everything goes our way because no matter what we do, no matter what we gain, things go our way. The only constant things in this entire creation are change. Everything's changing our bodies are changing our loved one's bodies are changing there's birth and there's death, there's victory, there's defeat, success, failure, happiness, distress, pleasure, pain, honor, dishonor, health, disease. We cannot change the nature of our environment, but we can change our consciousness, we can find that the foundation within ourselves and then build everything in our life on that foundation. Foundation of compassion rather than envy, arrogance, greed e.t.c. when we have that compassion within our hearts. It becomes the most powerful motivating force to excel in whatever we do because we have a higher purpose in life.

Life is like a rainbow. Multi-colored, multi-Splendor-ed things in which the joy of sunshine and tears of the rainbow are reflected equally when we see the whole picture of the sky with the rainbow, we can appreciate it similarly, and the real joy of life is not simply when everything goes our way because no matter what we do, no matter what we gain, things go our way. The only constant things in this entire creation are change. Everything's changing our bodies are changing our loved one's bodies are changing there's birth and there's death, there's victory, there's defeat, success, failure, happiness, distress, pleasure, pain, honor, dishonor, health, disease. We cannot change the nature of our environment, but we can change our consciousness, we can find that the foundation within ourselves and then build everything in our life on that foundation. Foundation of compassion rather than envy, arrogance, greed e.t.c. when we have that compassion within our hearts. It becomes the most powerful motivating force to excel in whatever we do because we have a higher purpose in life. https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.okpoko.33/

You want to meet that lady with a good heart for marriage, but you don’t like approaching ladies or having a healthy discussion with a lady, how do you hope to get her attention?

You had a bad experience with your ex, and because of that, you feel that there is no good lady/man out there, who told you that?

You had a beautiful relationship that never ended in marriage; according to you, he’s so good, you love him, and you can’t imagine life without him, and because of that you have refused to give another man a chance in your life. How so?

You have allowed your ex/past to keep you in a prison of negativity, and close your eyes from seeing anything good in relationships or other individuals.

Truth is, as long as we are on earth, we will experience all manner of relationship realities, and it is normal for things not to work as planned.

But what you owe yourself is this insight that no matter what happened in your relationship, you will keep driving forward with great enthusiasm, anticipation, and hope.

Gentleman,

If you desire a lovely lady, and you meet one, respectfully approach her and build a friendship with her. Don’t go lyrical on the spot, just a brief introduction and a hand of fellowship for a date or friendship will do.

You cannot find a lovely lady by not talking to ladies, the opposite is true.

If you like the comment of a lady, appreciate it and build on that. Things may or may not work out, but even at that, keep the door of healthy friendship open and be fun and exciting while at it.

Beautiful Lady,

If he was so good as you said, he wouldn’t leave you for another lady, or cheat on you, or abuse you or hurt you intentionally, and if he did all those, then he’s not as good as your mind makes you feel.

He disappointed you, that’s painful, but choosing not to open your heart to other men, and get to meet with them is unhealthy for you.

Don’t bury yourself where your ex left you, there is a reason why the living doesn’t get buried together with the dead. Please avoid such an overprotective attitude or fear by limiting yourself from meeting other men.

Loving is risky, and so is living, but we must love anyways. So open that door, stop giving your past so much power to ruin your future.

Fact. there are millions of amazing men who are prayerfully looking for you, knocking on your door, and wishing to have the privilege to love you.

And you will never meet them by shutting all men out of your life. All men are not the same; not jerks; not cheats; not abusive, but it is your duty to figure out the content of every guest.

Be positive, be open, and give every man the chance to prove their value.

Praying and fasting for your husband or marriage, and then not making friends with men will only produce no result. We communicate to connect, and we connect when we are open to others.

So drop those shackles of your past, your past is dead, gone, and buried, and make the best of today. Maybe, just maybe, you will meet that special someone who will make you question why you never met him/her earlier than now.

You are too beautiful/handsome not to give love a chance in your life again; your bad experience irrespective.

God sometimes takes you on a long journey before getting you settled in your place of rest. Source: https://aderonkebamidele.com/The Prison Of Negativitiy-SINGLES