Free Essay About A Lesson Learn The Hard Way

Long ago in a land known as Sankara, there lived a young girl known as Belema. Belema lived with her loving mother in a big wooden house her father had built them. Unfortunately, her father had passed on when she was so young that she barely had any of his memories. However she was told a lot about his heroic acts. That he was a great hunter and had lost his life fighting a leopard that had invaded their village. Belema therefore lived with her mother alone as she had no siblings.
Belema was a very hard working young lady and was very close to her mother. She had few friends as most of her age mate girlfriends disliked her. It is her eye-catching beauty that made all the boys in her village want to be her suitor. Belema was however very strict and her tough character made most boys cower from approaching her. Those who were courageous enough went up to her home and met her mother to seek Belema’s hand in marriage through her. None of them was ever lucky to be accepted by her. All of Belema’s age mates in her village got married and she still denied all the men from her village. This made her mother very angry with her as wanted her to get married like the other girls so that she could bore her grandchildren.
One afternoon, Belema and her mother went to pick firewood in the forest like it was their tradition. On that fateful day something happened out of the norm. A dark cloud filled the skies and darkness engulfed the land. Belema and her mother were scared as they could not trace their way back home. They then came to a decision that they would put up a fire and stay where they were until the skies became clear again. So, they placed some pieces of clothes down and had some rest. Within no time, Belema’s mother fell fast asleep leaving Belema awake to watch over them.
After sometime, Belema noticed someone approaching them. She stays still but the person got closer and closer. Her heard started to pound hard and faster for she did not know who was approaching them. To her surprise, a tall and handsome man appeared. The man was so kind that he offers to stay with them until everything went back to normal. They get along well with Belema and when the skies opened up he asks her to be his wife. Belema accepts and her mother was so happy about it. A ceremony was then organized and Belema married the good looking man from a village far away from hers.
On the night of their wedding, Belema for the first time in her life shared a bed with a man. It took a while before she fell asleep. Later that night she has nightmares and woke up to the shock of her life. She realized that she was sharing a bed with a snake. She busted out of bed and headed very fast for the door. Lucky enough, she managed to open it and run. Outside, she screamed for help. By that time, the snake was following her hissing with anger. Armed men came out of their housed and killed the snake before it caught up with her. She spends that night in one of her rescuer’s houses.
The next morning, she was told that the man she had married was a powerful witch who would have swallowed her before that morning had she not escaped. She was told that there were several of them in that village but it was difficult to identify and kill them. From this narration, we learn that sometimes we look search too hard yet the answer lies right below our nose. Belema could have looked for a good man in her village, one whom she knows well, to marry.