Life Of A Dreamer

Just An Average Life

My name is Dami Hassan Olujimi but I like to called Alex. I'm a simple average guy, like to think that I'm cute too. I'm born into a strict but wonderful family. My dad has 2 wives but we don't stay together. My mom has 3 kids while my stepmother has 5 kids.
I never really knew much about them because we don't stay together. My siblings are twins Tayo and Tola but I like to call them the double Ts. My step siblings are ayo, bidemi, bisola, sola and dotun. We all aren't that close but still dad loved us equally in his own way.
I stay with my dad, mom and siblings in the outskirt of  Lagos, while my stepmom and her kids stay in the city which made it easier for them to get access to opportunities like ayo and bidemi are at Chicago due to a sport endorsement gotten from their school. I don't really know much or remember much about my step siblings to make it more pitiful, the twins and I don't get along very well.
Either it's arguing, insulting or just trying to show superiority over me because they are the eldest but which older siblings doesn't do that especially when they are girls.
      I have always wanted to explore the world, see things I see on the TV but sometimes it's just a dream or imagination. Growing up In a country like mine makes you hungry to be the best, succeed so as not to go back as been a shame to the family. I have always been pressured to be the son who helps my family to save them from poverty that's why they always try their best to make sure I get the education I need to climb to the top...
          The funny thing is, i have no say but to shoulder it especially when i see how my family and I struggle every day to stay afloat. It wasn't always like this, we were comfortable,
Mom had a great job till the company went bankrupt and still unable to get another job due to her age. Dad is a retired officer who have not been able to get his pension. To put in a simple term, my parents are jobless, they just struggle to ensure my sisters and I get an education. My step siblings help sometimes when they want to but to the dismay of their mother.
My growing up was good till I got to high school. When I was in primary and junior secondary school, I was always in the top 5. But when I was in my senior secondary school, it wasn't as easy. I used to have lots of friends since I transfered to Fort joy secondary school. I have never been bullied just ridiculed because I really embraced my feminine  side which made me look queer but what do u expect?! I have three women in my life!!!
The boys don't like to hang around with me because of this and the girls don't like guys who was chubby like me and had a big ass. But still paved through this. So I had to control my self to fit in... It worked a bit though I didn't have close friends but still had friends to talk to me. I have always felt like an outcast like I don't belong to make it worse I was a terrible dresser
Didn't know much about fashion styles or trends. Been called girly names too but as a joke still I never let it get in my head just that I was lonely
Yes!!!
I have an average boring life
In Nigeria, when students are promoted to senior secondary class one, they have to choose what departments they want to go to that will take them to their careers. They were science, commercial and arts
I love art maybe because I talk a lot as my family used to say *roll eyes* but due to being an African a Nigerian again for that matter, the parents chooses your career before you have a clue about what you want to do in life but we can't blame them. What they want is the best for their children and want them to be successful, rich and make them proud
Which parent doesn't want that especially in a tough and corrupt country in Nigeria where jobs are not available especially as there are many unemployed graduates. To get anything done here requires money and connections, without that my dear its only God who can help. Trust me, I learnt the hard way..
So dad didn't want me in arts and commercial and off to science I went but I didn't go without a fight, let's say I was rebellious and I'm still am and no thanks to learning that from TV. I love movies a lot. Movies are my passion. Music too but can't sing. I know that's a bummer right.... Other than those two, I read novels, cook and really try to be a people pleaser and get new friends but gave up on that because no matter how much u please people and u want them in your life, they Still leave... So I don't bother but I still try and fight for some. What?! Can't help it and I can also be called a helpless romantic too.
                    Me and my dad had a deal to try and feel how science was and if I still hated it, I could leave but fell in love with physics but chemistry and me still fight lol alot. Growing up in my neighborhood was boring and dry
Really boring. My friend from school stayed far away and was never really allowed to go out much and socialize with the kids in the hood but the funny thing is I'm popular. I might not know people but they sure as hell act like they know me. When I was in ss 2, I got to be friends with two girls from my neighborhood but funny thing is our friendship was based on novels music and movies. We always had our difference & and people are always questioning our friendship because I was the only guy in the group but I didn't care..
Time went by, we fell apart due to they getting admission into the university and I still in school. I thought our friendship would last but I was wrong and we kind of fell out but they both fell out from me and since then never had a close and long friendship last that till date. I always thought I could always get a good friend but not happening. We still talk but rarely.
I didn't know what I want to become so I just graduated from high school, worked a bit while trying to gain admission and when I got one at a polytechnic nic and not university  dad was disappointed but still in order not for me to wait for another year and keep working
I went to study electrical and electronics engineering. Guys, the only reason I took that was because it seemed like the only option. Didn't want to study medicine. It wasn't easy but got my national diploma after two years and went to work for a year before writing another exam to gain admission in an university and I did...
Though money was tight. Used all my savings and made sure I paid my acceptance fees and tuition fees but boy did I suffer during my first year. Polytechnic and university are two different things and trying to adapt especially with course mates younger than u.