MY CHURCH NEVER SUPPORTED ME, KILLED MY DREAM (pt. 1)
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS
A TEENAGER
WRITTEN BY ADEBIYI KAYODE – KAY CROWN
I grew up in a church
environment and while I was a teenager and with the help of God, I was able to
discover my hidden potentials on time and I believed that was a good state of
my life to have discovered such. I was known for so many things but my core
talents were singing and dancing. My passion was so strong that I began to form
and became part of music and dance group with my friends both in and out of the
church.
In my church home where I
lived, I was not allowed to be a part of any church talent group based on some
reasons I would share later in my other story. So basically, I was just a young
teenager and youth that nothing was known about. The group I formed I with my
friends in church wasn’t my church based but just as friends who had one thing
in common. So with this, only they knew my potentials.
I became aggressive and
stubborn to the fact that I wanted to be in my church group and also learn the
keyboard. But I was not also allowed because my guardian who is a pastor in the
church said she was not able to afford my transportation fare on weekends and
when I try trekking to church on weekends, I get disgraced, embarrassed and
humiliated to the face of everyone and will be sent home. I cried and feel
rejected but I never gave up
I began to do things outside
the shore of my church and at this time, I mustn’t go to another church for no
reason. Most times I sneaked out and trekked a far distance to attend
rehearsals with my friends as well as youth programs. My friends couldn’t cope
with my lapses so I had to leave them and formed my own group where I had the
control of everyone and everything although it was all done in secrecy.
Right from my secondary
school days, I had formed my music group and I nurtured it to the best of my
ability. In had great singers whom I wished had been with me till this day
because they also struggled and gave their all with me. They also had their
challenges but they made me strong because I pushed them to be determined.
Before I drop my pen, I would wish to have
been better but my church killed me with lack of support because I was under
them. The microphone had been collected from me several times and that made me
never to show my ability in my church anymore.
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