Steem4nigeria Accelerator Contest Week 63:The Lies I Grew Up Believing

Greetings my amicable steemians in STEEM4Nigerian, without doubt i believe you're all doing good and y'all have a good day. It's my pleasure to welcome y'all to my blog, in the topic "The lies i grew up believing."

Living as I chilld, i must i really went through a whole lot of lies, not just going through them, i dearly believe in these lies. Thank God for growth because it really truncated this lies from me through thorough research. Now let's dive and fetch out some of these lies.

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Let's start with the "moon following you. Ever feel like the moon is following you?. During my childhood, i normally used to feel like the moon is following me to wherever destination I'm going but i wasn't firmly sure, not until my elders told me that the moon followed me to anywhere and for the long time, i believe them.

Ever heard about this lie, you won't grow tall if you sit on top a stone. I grew up with my grandmother so this lie was trending in the environment, all my siblings used to believe it and avoid sitting on top a stone. In fant we were strongly warned not to sit on top a stone, provoking this warning would lead to punishment.

Let's talk about this popular lie about the football match between Nigeria vs India. According to what I head, there was a football match between Nigeria and India, the outcome of this match was 99:1 with India scoring 99 goals in a single football match, the reason behind these goals was that the India national team Used voodoo to played against the Nigeria national team.

Another version of this story stated that a Nigerian player died while scoring the India team to break the challenge they placed. The challenged was if Nigeria scored one goal, they'll win the match and then teslim balogun, a Nigerian player score and died instantly.

This story continues that the ball would turn to different animals like lion, dog and even an object like stone. Wow I seriously used to believe this lie and discussed it with friends who believe the same damn lie.

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I was sincerely happy the moment i realized the truth behind all those lies, I was like wow so all these while, I was in the dark knowing the truth about the moon staying on its own, growing tall evening when sitting on top a stone, no football national team has ever scored Nigeria 99 goals in a single match.

I was happy because I can firmly vindicate to people the truth about these lies I believe. I'm now in the light part of the world.

I refused subscribing of telling lies to young people just to protect them. Lie has never a strategy used in saving people, if it does, Satan and God wouldn't be separated from each other. Besides no matter the depth of a lie you instill in a child mind, when he or she grows up, he or she will probably research and reveal the real truth.

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A spade remains a spade no matter what it is been used for, therefore we and i should say the truth regarding it's nature, even if it results in an abrupt manner, the truth should be told instead of beating about the bush.

In conclusion, living a life as a childhood is full of untruthful believed, this is because we don't know our left and right as a young mind. Our elders should be focused on calling a spade a spade instead of abusing the young people with lies, this is a great strategy to train the leaders of tomorrow.

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