Choosing Between What You Love And Who You Love.

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In this story, John my character, is stuck in a state of choosing what he loves which pays the bills and who he loves who makes him happy, but doesn't what to choose one over the other.

John is an ambitious young man, who grew up poor, because his dad was gambler who gambled away all the money meant for solving all other problems in their house, including his school fees and his younger siblings school fees too, leaving all the responsibility to his wife, John's mother to handle including paying his gambling debts.

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Which made John to grow up so fast being the first son and first child of the family, he took up the responsibility of being the breadwinner of the home at a very young age to support his mother who is trying her best the little way she can, John vowed never to be like his dad and vowed to make sure his family are well taking care of, no matter the cost is going to be (not evil or get illegal stuffs though).

John grow up to be a successful business man, but had an issues of always wanting more, the more he grew older his ambitious grew even more bigger than ever, he didn't notice what was going on, until he got married, he got married to the love of his life, who he love so much and she love him too.

But his ambitious and business became a problem for his marriage because he's always busy and barely have time for his wife, any time he got home he is always tired, so he will go and take his bath, he loves having warm bath after a stressful day at work, when his done bathing he goes straight to bed and the next morning his up very early and off to work before his wife is up.

It was like she got married to a ghost, she couldn't take it anymore and had to give him an ultimatum, that he has to make a choice either he chooses her over the business, or she's going to leave him, that she can't be married to a ghost, he doesn't give her any attention, he barely even does his duties as a man in the bedroom.

The ultimatum from his wife who he loves so much and doesn't want to lose her, got him thinking of a solution to save his marriage from falling apart, so he asked for advise from other of his successful friends, who gave him good advise on what to do to help him spend a enough with the woman he loves, save his marriage and at the same time not put his business on pause or at a disadvantage.

He took his time to find someone who could represent him well in his company and manage the day to day office duties and responsibilities, and then report back to him, he will also be goes to the office to supervise what his manager is doing and how well his doing the job given to him. At the end he balance the love for his wife and his ambition to succeed, his marriage and business kept on flourishing, his problem was solved.

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Good story. Am glad he was able to balance his desires and its didn't get to affects his home. Your story writing skills is cool and impressive. I enjoyed reading, although there wasn't much details about how he meant his wife, how he became a successful man or what happened to his mother and siblings. Truly story writing takes steps to follow and am sure you are getting it already.

Great job bruh. Keep writing ❤

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Thanks for the correction, I have noted them down and will do better next time.

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This is a beautiful story of learning to prioritize love and family over gambling urges and business success, both of which offer hollow rewards.

We encourage you to use the resources in The Ink Well community and read our community rules. We ask every writer who posts in The Ink Well to read and comment on at least two other writers' stories for every story published. This keeps our community strong!

Also, here are some great resources that you might find useful:

The last one is great because it describes how to draft your content in Google docs before posting, which can help to identify errors and fix them. For example, in your story you use the word mange (a dog disease) instead of manage, and manger (a feeding bin for farm animals) instead of manager. The spelling and grammar tools in Google docs can help you identify and fix those.

Good luck and keep writing!

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You have so many good things going in this story. It offers a rationale for John's character development. His father was not a responsible person, so John works hard to be different. But, he works so hard he hurts his family. So you give him a way out, a way to solve his conflict: Be responsible and be loving.

I liked this line:

It was like she got married to a ghost

That sums it up, and it sums up what happens in many marriages.

I do suggest you read the comment from Ink Well very closely. This story is good but some of that gets lost because of grammar errors, including spelling. As the Ink Well comment suggest, if you load the document into Google Docs before you publish, a lot of the grammar errors will be corrected. Then your story will truly shine.

I hope you continue to write. Please do read our rules about engagement, and what we allow. This will help you to fit in beautifully in the community culture.

Have a great day and keep writing.

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Thank you, I will read and comment on others people's stories, and I have made the correction to the spelling errors.

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