I NEVER BOTHERED ABOUT WATER FILTERS UNTIL I EXPERIENCED THE MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT OF MY LIFE
Christmas seasons are always perfect times to go on holidays and also have that wonderful vacation our body has always craved since the beginning of the year due to the hustle and stress of city life.
It was my first holiday with my husband and we travelled to his village for the first time since we got married. I was very excited and seriously looked forward to spending our first Christmas together since we got married and also meeting other members of his family
As expected of a typical African wife, I was trying my best to impress my in-laws and make sure I was never found wanting in any task I needed to do as a wife in the family.
I made sure I bossed every task and was first to do any task required for the women in the family to do. Things were going according to plan until the most unexpected thing happened.
Unlike my husband, I did not grow up in the village and I am a city girl who is very used to the city lifestyle and innocence.
I just felt that things in the city will almost be the same in the village. This event taught me my first and most important lesson on the distinct difference between the city and the village.
I was cooking the Christmas meals a day to Christmas and was happy that the borehole and the taps had just been newly installed in the house, hence making cooking very easy for me.
We had a public tap outside the house where we get water from and I had been using the water from there while cooking but since it was too late to go outside the compound, I decided to use the water from the newly installed borehole and make life a little easy so I could finish my task early.
This decision completely ruined Christmas for me personally.
I of course tasted the meals I cooked and there were so yummy, so I felt great about myself and confident that I had completely made a good impression of myself as a good wife. I felt this way until things began to unfold.
After coming from church, I went straight to the kitchen and started serving everyone the Christmas food according to their favorite delicacies.
The first thing I noticed was my father in-law bite a little stone in his mouth that sounded so loud that everyone in the house paused and looked towards his direction. Then he took another scoop of food again and the same thing happened, another loud sound of him biting stone in his mouth.
I immediately went into panic mood, and everyone began to taste their meals to see if my father in-law's scenario was just a coincidence.
This was absolutely no coincidence, and as everybody began to chew stone from their foods, I suddenly realized that the cause of this was the water I took from the newly installed borehole.
After the whole embarrassing episode had settled and I had explained to everyone why it happened, I immediately retreated to my room and cried for the rest of my Christmas.
How bad could my luck get. I had just spoilt the first meal I ever cooked for my in-laws in their family home on a festive day and while I kept apologizing and everyone understood the scenario and tried to sympathize and cheer me up, I was just too emotionally down and inconsolable.
I lost all my will to make up for the mistake that day and just decided to be on my own and cry alone.
I honestly could barely sleep and woke up several times at night even when I eventually slept a little.
When I woke up again by 3am, I decided to go through my phone and just visit tiktok for some memes to cheer me up after a very challenging day.
It is said that sometimes the universe sees our needs and attracts us to those things we need at the most critical times of our lives.
This is how I came across a User Generated Content on a very easy to use water purifier I wish I knew earlier before my embarrassing episode.
ADJUSTABLE WATER PURIFIER
Unclean water and poor sanitation have claimed more lives over the past 100 years than any other cause. The water-crisis claims more lives through disease than any war through guns.
At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
The good news is that it is possible to do something about it. Many organizations work to improve water conditions in developing countries.
You can begin improving the water quality in your home by using this filter
When I narrate this story, I always do so with plenty of laughter because what was a very bad experience, now makes me laugh because of my discovery and how I have remedied the situation years after the event.
Till this day the adjustable water purifier is used in the family house and I have been opportune to cook more happy meals during festive seasons because of this adjustable water purifier