The Needles..My SuperPower.
"You'll fit for a nurse because you are very compassionate and more than that, you know how to lay a bed properly," My dad would always tease me, and I didn't think it was a bad idea after all; he was also a doctor.
My mindset changed when I walked into the "Save Hand Hospital", the day I had to be injected because I had come down with a fever.
This beautiful lady walked in with her white fitted dress and a cap indicating she was a nurse, and then she brought out the tiny rodlike instrument with a sharp point towards me. I had wanted to run, but I realized the door was shut. "Should I bite her?" My adrenaline was giving me different options to be safe simply because I had a phobia of injections and I didn't like to see a nurse around me, but there was nothing I could do. I watched her search for the right vein to prick the needles in, and from that moment on, I realized I wouldn't be a nurse anymore.
I needed to be liberated from the fear of needles, so I thought, "Are there a thousand and one other things I could do with needles?"
My liberation began in Junior Secondary School two when I had an encounter with Mrs. Jegede my Home economics teacher, I watched her do so many amazing things with the hand needles during our class practicals and unknowingly she began to influence my life gradually.
I particularly find myself smiling and being enthusiastic about the class, especially when Mrs.Jegede walks in and says, "We will be having a sewing practical in a fortnight". Right in my seat, I would have imagined a thousand and one things I could do with my hand needle, and so I always looked forward to the practical.
One Saturday evening, I walked up to my dad in high spirits with one of the projects I had completed. I sat beside him and excitedly showed him my project. "Dad, I will work with needles now, but differently." I watched how amazed my dad was at the first project I completed with my hands, using just a needle, thread, and a leftover African print in the house.
"This is so beautiful," he cheered me on and said, "If it makes you happy, then you have my support, my darling," My dad was a sweet man and didn't force me to do what I didn't have a passion for.
After junior high school, my dad and my mom went to the market to get me a sewing machine that I could use for practical purposes and to perfect my skills.
I began to influence the choice of clothes in my house by creating fancy styles for my mom and siblings and in time, I became passionate about the use of needles ranging from making a hat to making a dress, to making a brooch and even slippers.
Then I realized that the use of needles was my superpower; maybe Dad saw this coming, but from a different angle, not to pierce and prick skins and veins but to pierce and prick through fabrics, leathers, and papers.
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All thanks to your Home Economics teacher because you my darling are doing so great in the fashion world and I am super proud of you, Designer Amie has a nice ring than Nurse Amie if you ask me🥰🥰
Yeah, Designer Amie's ring is finer haha, Nurse Amie's ring cannot be finer.
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Wow! This is so beautiful.
Thanks a bunch.
Good good good.
Atleast, you're not among those that prefer injection to medicine 😅.
Thank God for the idea that picked up the needlework in the fashion way🙌
Haha, yeah I prefer medicine to injection, please.😂
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Lol😅😅
It’s amazing to discover your superpower early in life and have the opportunity and support to use it. It’s a good thing that you visited that nurse who actually managed to put you on the right path in life.
Yeah, I am excited I found my superpowers. Thanks for coming around.
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One of the things in life that make us happy is discovering the talent we have, this can happen in the least expected way, The next thing is to cultivate that talent until it bears beautiful fruits like you did. You really create nice styles of clothing.
Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah, I discovered my talent and that's the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me.
Thanks for the beautiful compliment, it is much appreciated.
Lovely story 💜 its so important for humans to find its passion, thats the only way we feel really happy 🤗
Following our bliss is one of the purposes in life who h helps us to stay happy and fulfilled. Thanks for visiting.
This is absolutely warming to read, Amie. So your love for needles grew. Only, it isn't the needles you thought you would love. I'm glad you had supportive parents to walk through it with you. That's amazing.
Yeah you are right, I am excited that God blessed me with ubsestabding parents. Thanks for visiting.
Awww! What a captivating story you have here. And it’s your life too. You found your way with needles and that little design up there is really beautiful. You’re gifted and your passion blazes through your craft!
Haha, I found my bay with needles but this time in a different way. Thanks, sis for visiting.
You sure make some nice stuff! Sewing is a nice ability to have, it's nice that your parents were so supportive.
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I am glad I had supportive parents and that helped me to perfect my skills. Thank you so much for the kind words.
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You did use the needle another way and it is just perfect. I love the fact that uiur parents supported you.
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It's nice that you found your passion, and that your fear for injection didn't make you hate needles entirely.
#dreemerforlife.
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The best thing is for parents to encourage and support their children instead of forcing them to do things against their passion. Handling a needle, not in an hospital but differently is amazing and your superpower indeed. All the best.
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That is the power of the needle, always doing good.
You made me remember my primary school teacher, Mr Jegede, he is very funny and disciplined.
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This is wonderful, I enjoyed reading every bit of it.
I am glad you found your own path and was able to become a friend with needles in another way.
Thanks to your teacher that inspired you, she inspired you to bring out the talent in you.
Nice piece of work, btw.
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