(Part 1/3) There was a time in life where all I wanted was fast money, cars, and women. Those were my priorities. I wanted to be among and feel among. So I got mixed up in the wrong gang and started making money. When the money came, I bought a car.

I was a nice guy and a free giver, so with my sweet mouth and the gift of giving, meeting women was easy. Despite my size, girls were all over me. I was a nightlife king and thought I was enjoying life.

This reckless lifestyle created a destructive pattern and it was only the grace of God that took me out of it. It took a while, because I became addicted to sex and alcohol. In fact, I developed a minor heart condition because I couldn’t stop drinking.

One time, I was on my way to a sex party and was involved in an accident. Robbers had put some barbed wire on the road to carry out an operation. I drove over the wires and my car hit the pavement, flipped over three times and landed on another pavement. I heard the robbers rushing towards me saying, ‘Check if he don die.’ I was lying upside down in the car and I pretended to be dead. I don’t usually wear seat belts but that night thankfully, I was wearing one. The seat belt was literally holding me upside down.

My mum had begged me not to go out that night and all of a sudden I heard her prayers. Fortunately a car with a siren was approaching and the robbers ran off, thinking it was the police. I was able to crawl out of the passenger’s side to try and flag down the car but it wasn’t the police but a company car with a siren. I called all my friends but none of them picked up. I was forced to call someone I had fought with in a club two weeks before. Luckily, he came with the police and tow truck to bail me out.

As I stood there looking at the car, I was shocked to come out of the crash unscathed. I thought to myself, ‘Lord did I just come out of this car?’ I became sober for some months but soon resumed my reckless life.

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