Hello Sweetheart,
I was forced to write to you this letter due to the enormous chances I have observed about you ever since you gained admission to the university. I have a lot of things to say but because you don’t like reading, I will try and make it brief. There have been some unprecedented changes in your life for some time now but that is not my pork, my beef is that if I don’t draw your attention to that you may not be the good future wife I have been praying for.
Ama, As Martin Luther said “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically, intelligent plus character, that is the goal of true education” but that is not the case when I observe you, you seem to be far away from this.
Ama, the way you dress on campus is becoming a nightmare to me, you dress in the name of looking sexy and in achieving that you expose your breast, thighs and other sensitive parts of your body which deserve optimum privacy and are not supposed to be exposed. Every valuable thing in the world is usually hidden and not exposed to the public, so exposing your breast and other sensitive parts of your body invariably means you have no sense of integrity and moreover, have had avalanche of sexual exposures and so exposing your breast will cost you nothing.
The other day my friends were making fun of you when you wore a mini skirt to my room, they said your thighs look like the thigh of a Jerusalem grasshopper, it really hurt me. And how dare you dress shabbily to church too? If you don’t fear nor shy man, please have some reverence for God. Sometimes too much make ups make you look scary like a Zimbabwean monkey, please be natural because that portrays your true beauty.
Ama, you stick yourself to telenovelas, series and episodes of movies too much, I will be glad if you could reduce the hours you spend on movies and engage in something that will help improve your mental faculty and your spiritual life. Ever since you came to the university, you have never done any research nor read any book apart from the downloaded handouts sold to you by your lecturer, you only move from one room to another with your made in China pen drive searching for movies. Don’t stick to your handouts alone, most of the things you learn in class are not applicable in the job market.
Ama, I entreat you to equip yourself with versatile knowledge across every arena of life that will make you a distinguished woman and a potential future wife.
In other to elude that monster called unemployment, I will like us to merge ideas and capital to start a small business or investment before we graduate from the university. Ama, I was told that when you go for lectures you don’t concentrate, you only fridge your phone and take selfie whiles the lecturer is teaching, do you know that phone you spend your time on is a future YAM? Why don’t you rather pay attention and get knowledge that will make you capable of competing with other potential ladies in the world? I told you about a young lady in Mozambique who advocates for the rights of teenage girls and her documentaries were showed on Aljazeera. I am not saying you should go and do documentary but you must also live your life daring to achieve something because a purposeless life is an early death.
Ama, I want to tell you that your bizarre love for restaurant food is becoming worrisome. The way you struggle with guys to buy food is too bad for me; can you please find some little time to cook? You are very much aware that you don’t get the chance to cook at home and this should have been your sterling opportunity to learn how to cook. I don’t want our marriage to breakdown in future because of your inability to cook as happens to many ladies today.
I want you to be a virtuous woman, a woman who can think not a sexy woman; be simple but smart. Marrying a sexy woman who has no wisdom is like riding on a dead horse, I will make no progress. You must be a woman of substance, the Comfort Ocran, Joyce Aryee, Mrs Justicia Apenkwa and Mrs Josephine Mayor type of woman who are making great impact on societies than many men.
Ama, don’t just graduate with a certificate but graduate as a potential woman. I wish you all the best in your studies and I belief that this letter will provoke you to do greater things in this university. I truly love you and will even prefer to chest a Boko Haram bomb to losing you.
Yours eternally,
Ntenhene Felix
KNUST
(felixntenhene@gmail.com)
This piece is a fiction, I wrote it out of imagination to advise our ladies on campus.
