MY HIVE NAME AND A LINGERING MEMORY - LOH#65

Greetings to all the prestigious women here in this community, I trust we are doing just fine. For me, this week prompt is quit a remarkable one because it has brought alive so many things in my mind and it will be my pleasure to have you travel memory lane with me. I’ll be answering the two question so let’s begin with the first;

What is the most embarrassing moment that you can’t forget??

Wow! answering this brings so much goose bump to my entire body right now, this sad event happen sometime ago, precisely 4 years from now but I can’t forget how it made me feel. I was pregnant at the time and living in an environment where promiscuity is not accepted I had to go through a lot because I was just a girl who got pregnant out of wedlock. I had every-one talk about me on the streets, market, church and social gatherings. No one wanted to identify with a girl who wasn’t smart enough to stay chaste so each time I stepped out I had a big pullover (sweater) on to cover my already protruding tummy.
I had a friend who was willing to share in my pains so she would help walk beside me to cover up the pregnancy especially when we got to social gatherings and open parks. This faithful day while returning from work and still trying to hide all that I was going through under the pullover, a young man walked up to me and at the top of his voice, he said something like “foolish girl, you thought you can hide the fact that you’re pregnant, get this pullover off and stop deceiving yourself” at once everyone left whatever kept them busy ad I became the focus and the topic of discussion on every lips. I felt the world staring as I struggled to carry myself, my feet automatically became too weak to carry me, I hated myself, I felt disappointed and useless and hot tear rolled down my face. I still had a long journey ahead of me, I just didn’t want to Abort this child but yet I had people say a lot things to me that day that made it seem like that was the best thing to do and for once, I wished I never existed. How I trekked home that day is still a mystery, perhaps I was carried by grace because I know that was all I had left – God’s Grace and Mercy were my constant companion.
I later gave birth to a very handsome boy but each time I passed through that very park, I can’t seem to get the picture of all that happened that day off my mind. It’s been such a long time but I can’t forget all I had been through during that phase of my life.

What is the story behind your Hive username??
While in college, I met a young man I kinda liked and he called me Gold and after several years of being in a relationship, I guess the only memory I was left with was how I felt when he would call me Gold over the phone.
When I wanted to create an email, I had a lot of suggestion from Google that didn’t match my taste but surprisingly, the young man helping me to create the account attached gold to my original name – (Uduak) and then I liked it, of course it sounded easy and nice to the ears and so I adopted it as a nick-name.
Secondly, whenever I get to talk to people for the first time and sharing some of my ideas and experiences, a lot of people would say to me “girl you are special in every sense and you’re as precious as gold, keep being you and never stop aiming high” and most time I marvel at such encomium so while creating my Hive account, the only name that came to mind was UDYGOLD and boom! I went with it.

I am precious, admirable, better than who I was and I am worth more than GOLD.

I hereby invite @ladivee and @evegrace to be a part of this community and contest.

I remain @udygold.