"Pick a Word, Paint a Story #22"

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Hello my steemians friends!

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I am more happier to see this lovely HWC contest "Pick a Word, Paint a Story #22," by @senehasa. Among the words (GRIN, GLOW, and BREEZE), Glow 🌟 becomes a standout one for me and my interest for it stimulate my opinion.
^{For this week! Let's get it done}

"-The Village Girl with a Dim Future-"

• Nsemeke had always been this quiet girl in her village—Ikot Obio. Not for the sake that she had nothing to say, but just because life had taught her to lower her voice and as well hide her dreams. Her father passed away when she was still very little at nine. Her mother, a farmer, really struggled to raise Nsemeke and her two younger brothers.

She wore always her old slippers to school and borrowed books from her classmates. She was mostly mocked for how she looked, and sometimes went to bed hungry. But somehow, inside her, something did remained, a tiny spark, too stubborn to die.

- The Glow Nobody Saw -
As at of the time, nobody in school noticed Nsemeke’s brilliance, not even her class teacher at first. She don’t speak much, but she observed everything around her. She loved science, loved to know eventually why rain fell and how the human body worked. One evening, after helping her mother on the farm works, she would light a candle and study while her brothers slept.

• So one day, the school principal announced a science essay competition which is statewide. The winner 🏆 would get a blow scholarship and represent the community. No one expected Nsemeke to enter, let alone win.

But she did.
And not just win it, she really stood out. Her essay on the topic "Harnessing Rural Areas with Solar Energy" was a handwritten one on a reused paper, but her ideas 💡 shone like sunlight itself.

- The Glow That Lit Her Path -
That very moment became her turning point now.

• She was awarded a scholarship that helped allowed her to finish secondary school without worrying about the fees anymore. Her confidence then began to grow. Her teachers this time took notice. She started tutoring other students after school and joined a science club.

Nsemeke began to glow. Definitely not that type of glow people think or gets from beauty creams or the luxury clothes, but the kind that truly came from self-belief, purpose, and resilience.

Years Later...
Nsemeke became a known and renewable energy engineer. She did returned to her village with solar kits, installing lights in homes that had known only darkness from the past. Her mother wept the first night their hut had light, this time not from a candle, but from the daughter she once feared might never go far like now. Indeed life had other plans for Nsemeke.

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Conclusion

Nsemeke's story is obviously not a rare one because of her success, but because she really chose not to let her situation dim her light after all. The glow in her didn’t need those loudness. It only needed the faith, focus, and fuel, from discipline and the desire to make a difference.

• Just Like Nsemeke, we too all carry that spark. Life may bury it under fear, poverty, failure, or doubt but it’s still there.
  And so when we choose to trust the process, keeps on learning, and rise each time we fall, we glow.

"We All Have a Glow"

I invite @miftahulrizky, @kouba01 and @edu-chemist.

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 -•- Thanks Y'all for Reading -•-

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