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00:00Once upon a time, in the beautiful city of Lagos, there lived a young woman whose name was Vanessa.
00:07She was the kind of girl who knew that she was beautiful and acted like it.
00:12Her skin glued like melted caramel, and her clothes smelled of a mixture of vanilla and honey.
00:17Her perfume collection featured all the luxury perfumes one could ever think of.
00:22Her wardrobe was every girl's dream, as Vanessa lived the life that Min could only dream of.
00:28With the world, however, came pride, a problem that not even her parents could address.
00:35Vanessa believed she was God's favorite.
00:38She would always boast that she was created on a public holiday.
00:41When heaven had extra time to perfect her beauty, she was so full of herself that she didn't see a need to mingle with people who she referred to as strugglers.
00:50Vanessa had never struggled for anything in her life.
00:53Her father was an oil tycoon who owned several oil wells in the country.
00:58He loved Vanessa so much, and never allowed her lack anything in life.
01:03Her monthly allowance was enough to set someone up for life, but Vanessa did not see it as enough.
01:09She always demanded for more, knowing that her father could never say no to her.
01:15She grew up spoiled, and this reflected in how she treated those she believed were beneath her.
01:19Vanessa did not just think she was better than them, she was convinced of it.
01:25To her, poor people were background decorations in the movie of her life.
01:29Whenever she passed by the street vendors or beggars, she would raise her nose so high that one would think she was smelling the heavens.
01:37Vanessa believed some people were born to suffer.
01:40She always thanked God for sending her to a wealthy family, calling those in poor homes unfortunate.
01:46She could not imagine living life like a normal girl, without all the luxuries that she currently enjoyed.
01:52Her father's mansion was so big that it had a pool, shaped like the letter V of her name, Vanessa.
01:58Her bedroom alone had a chandelier that could change the life of a whole family if it was so.
02:05Yet, despite all she had, Vanessa lacked kindness.
02:10Her beauty shone, her bank account overflowed, but her heart, it was as empty as a politician's promise after election day.
02:18Her parents tried to correct her severally, reminding her that life could change at any moment, but Vanessa refused to listen.
02:25She told her mom that life can never change for someone like her because she was not born to suffer.
02:32Some people are built for poverty, mommy.
02:34I, Vanessa, was built for enjoyment.
02:37Her maids did not like her much because of how wickedly she treated them.
02:42They called her Madam Pride because all Vanessa did was treat them like dust beneath her feet.
02:48She would yell at them for the smallest things, reminding them how poverty had messed up their sense of reasoning.
02:54Vanessa always blamed their poor background for any mistakes that they made.
02:59She hated poor people and believed they carried some kind of invisible curse that could infect her at any given opportunity.
03:07To Vanessa, helping the poor was like throwing money into a trash bin, pointless, dirty, and beneath her dignity.
03:14One afternoon, when the Lagos sun was blazing and the road shimmered like melted glass,
03:19something happened that would change Vanessa's life forever.
03:23Vanessa was in her room, lying on her king-sized bed, wrapped in soft blankets.
03:29She was scrolling through Instagram, liking only pictures of rich people,
03:32and skipping those of her old schoolmates who she believed were not on her level.
03:37Suddenly, there was a loud knock on the gate.
03:40The gate man couldn't lay, slowly opened the gate to see who it was.
03:43There stood an old woman, frail-looking, with dusty feet, and hands that trembled as she held out the bowl and begged for some water to drink.
03:52Please, my son, I beg you, the old woman whispered weakly.
03:57Just more water.
03:58The sun is too much.
03:59I'm thirsty.
04:01Kunle felt pity for her.
04:03He took the bowl and was about heading inside to fetch some water for her.
04:06When Vanessa approached the gate angrily,
04:09Who is making noise at my gate?
04:11Vanessa said, her face twisting like one whose patience was now running thin.
04:16When she saw the beggar, her expression changed from irritation to full-blown disgust.
04:21Excuse me, what is that thing doing at my gate?
04:24She shouted, pointing as if the woman was a stray animal.
04:28The old man bowed slightly as she began to speak.
04:31My daughter, please, I only want water.
04:35Just water to drink.
04:36Before she could finish, Vanessa hissed so loudly that the gate man flinched.
04:41Oh, so you walked all the way to my mansion to beg for water?
04:45She laughed mockingly.
04:47You think because your life is hard that you can come and disturb me?
04:51You want to use your poverty-streaking hand to knock on my gate?
04:55Do you know who I am?
04:56The old man looked at her with tired eyes.
04:59I am only thirsty, my daughter.
05:01Please help me with water.
05:02Vanessa, Vanessa, rolled her eyes dramatically as she rebuked the woman for referring to her as her daughter.
05:08How can a poor, wretched woman like you be my mother?
05:11I reject it, she said as the woman apologized and asked for water again.
05:17Filled with so much anger, Vanessa walked into the compound, grabbed the bucket of water,
05:22and poured it on the old woman, who stood there drenched from head to toe.
05:27The old woman gasped as the freezing water hit her skin.
05:31Kunle stood frozen, unable to speak, as Vanessa gave the woman a piece of her mind.
05:37Next time, if you need water, drink your sweat and never you come close to my house again,
05:43she said as she ordered Kunle to lock the gate.
05:46Vanessa grumbled as she returned to her room.
05:48She felt no atom of remorse for the old woman, whose only crime was being poor and thirsty.
05:54Vanessa decided to post on Instagram.
05:57She took a video of the old woman earlier and decided to create a content that she knew would go viral.
06:03Vanessa posted the video online with a caption that set social media on fire.
06:07Why do beggars exist?
06:09Why do they even choose to live when they know their life is nothing to write home about?
06:13Imagine this beggar coming to my mansion to knock and beg for water is the audacity for me.
06:20These beggars need to know where to draw the line, she said as few people laughed and supported her post.
06:26Others bashed her for being so insensitive, but Vanessa had a savage answer for each and every one of them.
06:32Feeling fulfilled, Vanessa decided to take a nap.
06:36She felt the pang of headache and blamed the poor woman for it.
06:39Hours later, she woke up and everything was wrong.
06:44Her room was gone, her chandelier was gone, her AC was gone, even her silk sheets and mansion were all gone.
06:52Vanessa was lying on the hard, dusty floor inside a small, smelly house.
06:57Her skin was now wrinkled and her clothes old and thorn.
07:01Her feet were bare and cracked as she screamed out in terror and ran outside.
07:05He boosted at her like a mad woman as she ran towards a nearby car to look at herself.
07:11To her complete terror, Vanessa realized that she was now in the body of the poor beggar.
07:17She stood there frozen as her mind tried to understand what was happening.
07:21A moment ago, she was in her bedroom taking a nap, surrounded by luxury.
07:25Now, here she was, on the streets of Lagos, shaking like a vibrating Nokia phone, in the frail and trembling body of the same woman who she had humiliated.
07:36No! No! This cannot be!
07:39Vanessa screamed as she began to yell out for help.
07:43Help! Somebody help me! I'm Vanessa! I'm not this woman!
07:47Vanessa from Leki Phase 1.
07:49My father is Mr. Adey Manor.
07:51People around bursted out into laughter as they began to mock her, saying,
07:56Who dashed this one, Leki, with her smelly mouth?
07:59We like to say this one, don't go low.
08:00Another said, as Vanessa grabbed his hand and began to plead with him for help.
08:05Please! I'm Vanessa!
08:07This is not my body. I don't belong here.
08:10The man pushed her away like trash as he began to speak.
08:13See me see trouble low, but mama way her brain don't cook finish.
08:16Vanessa, for the first time in her life, felt fear tighten around her like a rope.
08:21She began to cry, not the soft, elegant tears she used for Instagram pictures,
08:26but loud, ugly, embarrassing cry that shook her entire body.
08:31She walked towards her mansion.
08:33Barefoot, sweating and dirty, Vanessa met Kunle at the gate.
08:38She pleaded for him to allow her in, but Kunle, instead of allowing her into the house,
08:43rushed forward with a stick.
08:44Hey! Go back, oh! Go back!
08:46You cannot be coming here to beg every day.
08:49Vanessa cried out.
08:50Kunle, it's me! It's me, Vanessa!
08:53I swear, something strange happened.
08:56I'm inside this old man's body, and I don't know how it happened.
08:59Kunle laughed so hard that his uniform almost ripped apart.
09:02You? Vanessa?
09:04Vanessa fell to her knees, as she began to plead with him for help.
09:08Please, Kunle, call my daddy.
09:11Let him see me, please!
09:12Kunle lifted the stick as he warned her to stay away.
09:15If you don't leave this gate now, I will help you meet your ancestors, he said to Vanessa,
09:20who was clueless on what to do.
09:22As they stood there, the gate opened and out stepped the old beggar, who was now standing
09:27there in Vanessa's young body.
09:29She stood there calm as she watched Vanessa try to convince Kunle that the old man has
09:34stolen her body.
09:35Vanessa burst into tears as she pleaded with the old woman, who was now in her body, to
09:41return her body to her.
09:42That's my body!
09:44Please!
09:45Please!
09:45Give it back!
09:46I'm Vanessa!
09:47You are the beggar!
09:48Please!
09:49The woman smirked as she began to speak.
09:51Oh!
09:52So you are me now?
09:53The same thing you poured water on?
09:55Is that what you're saying?
09:57Vanessa held her by the ankles as she pleaded for mercy.
10:01Please!
10:01I'm sorry!
10:02I'm so, so sorry for everything, I said.
10:05Please give me back my body.
10:06Kunle pulled her away roughly as she began to yell angrily.
10:10Old woman!
10:11Please behave yourself, oh!
10:12Vanessa was dragged away like a sack of onions.
10:14She spent the rest of her day wandering the street, begging for help, trying to find someone
10:20who would believe her.
10:22But nobody cared.
10:23Nobody listened.
10:24Nobody pitied her.
10:25Her stomach growled loudly as her throat burned with thirst and her feet began to ache
10:31from walking.
10:32By evening, her once proud spirit was shattered completely.
10:36She stretched out her hand to a woman who was frying puff puff by the roadside, pleading
10:41for some puff puff to eat.
10:43Please!
10:44Just one!
10:45I haven't eaten!
10:46She said to the woman, who hissed loudly and told her to get out of her sight.
10:50You want to eat my profit?
10:52You old woman!
10:53Vanessa staggered backwards.
10:55Tears spilling down her face.
10:57By nightfall, she had collapsed near a gutter, trembling from hunger and drinking from a public
11:03tap like a stray goat.
11:04Vanessa had never been this hungry in her entire life.
11:08She had never felt her stomach twist like a rope.
11:10Being pulled by angry village children.
11:12Her once perfect legs that used to work only on Italian marble, they are now shaking on dusty streets like a generator with low fuel.
11:21That night, she caught beside the gutter, shivering.
11:24Her pride had cracked, but not broken yet.
11:28She woke the next morning to the painful cries of her stomach empty.
11:32This is hell!
11:33She groaned.
11:34This is actual hell!
11:35But even in her suffering, Vanessa remained selfish.
11:40That morning, a tired mother with two children approached her.
11:44Mama, please, do you have 15 naira?
11:47My children have no eating today.
11:49Vanessa looked at her in irritation.
11:51Do I look like Central Bank?
11:53A big shift!
11:54The mother walked away sadly.
11:56As the woman leapt, a heavy wind blew against Vanessa's face.
12:01Almost like the universe sighed in disappointment, but Vanessa did not understand.
12:06She just hissed loudly and walked away.
12:08Her stomach rumbling as she moved around looking for food to eat.
12:12Hours later, she came across a half loaf of bread by the roadside.
12:16Her eyes lit up like Christmas light as she reached out to grab it.
12:21However, another beggar also reached out in the same time to grab the same bread.
12:25But Vanessa, not willing to share, snatched it from the ground before he could reach it.
12:30He begged her to cut some for him.
12:32But Vanessa rolled her eyes and called him a joker.
12:35Will you shift your hand?
12:36I saw it first.
12:37And as you can see, I have not eaten since yesterday.
12:41The old man pleaded with tears in his eyes.
12:43But Vanessa ignored his cries and devoured the bread without mercy.
12:47She sat by the roadside.
12:48Sad as she wondered how long she was going to remain trapped in the old woman's body.
12:53Vanessa saw first hand what it felt like to be poor.
12:57Not only poor, but wretched with no means of livelihood.
13:01Her maid, who she once mocked for being poor, we are now doing far better than she was.
13:06And Vanessa could not endure the humiliation anymore.
13:09She walked up to their mansion and waited by the gate to meet her parents, who she believed would believe her story.
13:16However, when her father drove by, he tossed some money to her on the floor as he drove into the mansion without even sparing her a second glance.
13:25Vanessa felt so useless in that moment.
13:27She used part of the money to pay for a call center as she called her own number repeatedly to speak with the old woman who had now taken over her life.
13:37Vanessa yelled angrily at the woman, threatening to deal with her if she failed to return her body in me.
13:43Give me back my body this instant.
13:44You wicked old woman.
13:46I swear, if I catch you, I will teach you a lesson you will never forget.
13:51The old woman in Vanessa's sweet young voice simply laughed softly through the phone.
13:56Now you know what it feels like to be poor and thirsty.
13:59She said calmly as she laughed and hung up the call.
14:03Vanessa could not contain her rage.
14:05She screamed out in anger, hoping that doing so would break out from the nightmare that had now become her life.
14:11Her anger carried her through the day, but hunger humbled her again.
14:16By afternoon, she collapsed beside the kiosk.
14:19A kind-looking man saw her trembling and handed her a small piece of roasted plantain.
14:24Take mama, it's not much, but it's something.
14:27Vanessa snatched it from him at first, but before her teeth could touch it, a small girl thugged her tongue wrapper.
14:34Mama, please, can I have some? I haven't eaten.
14:38Vanessa hissed and looked away, but the child's tumour growled loudly.
14:42A familiar pain, the same pain Vanessa had felt all week.
14:47Her proud heart struggled, but something inside had softened.
14:50Take, Vanessa whispered, handing the entire plantain to the girl.
14:55The girl smiled so wide that Vanessa felt something warm in her chest, the kind of warmth money could never buy.
15:01Hours later, Vanessa saw a little boy crying at a busy junction.
15:07Please mama, help me cross.
15:09Normally, she would have walked past, but something nudged her.
15:13Vanessa took his tiny hand, shaking as she held him and guided him across the road.
15:18His smile was enough to melt even a proud heart.
15:21Mama, thank you.
15:23Vanessa blinked back tears, as nobody had ever thanked her with such sincerity in their voice.
15:28She loved how she felt in that moment and decided to always do good.
15:33The next morning, just as Vanessa was walking around in search of food,
15:37her eyes caught sight of a woman whose dress was thinned with menstrual blood.
15:42Vanessa could see some men laughing and whispering to themselves
15:45as they pointed at the woman who had no idea that her dress was thin.
15:49Vanessa, without thinking twice, rushed the woman and tied the scarf around her waist.
15:53The woman froze.
15:55She touched the scarf, then looked at Vanessa with trembling eyes.
15:59Oh my God, thank you.
16:00Thank you so much, she whispered, her voice cracking with embarrassment and relief.
16:05I didn't even know.
16:07I didn't know it had stained.
16:08Vanessa held her hands gently.
16:10It's okay, she said softly.
16:12You're fine.
16:13Go home.
16:14Do not mind them.
16:16The woman burst into tears and hugged her tightly.
16:18For the first time in her entire life, Vanessa hugged someone without thinking about class,
16:24status or perfume, just humanity.
16:27And right there, something shifted inside her chest.
16:30A quiet breaking, a painful healing that she never knew that she needed.
16:35Days later, and Vanessa came across her friends,
16:38sitting by a roadside restaurant, as they had some drinks.
16:41They were talking about her real self, how she believed the world revolved around her,
16:46all because her parents were rich.
16:47They talked about all her savage comments online,
16:50and how they only clapped for her to deceive her.
16:53One even revealed how she created a fake profile,
16:56just to troll her online, and the others laughed loudly,
17:00clinking their glasses together.
17:02Vanessa stood not too far away, invisible to them in her old, wrinkled body.
17:07She recognized every voice, every laughter.
17:10Those who were the same girls who used to hype her,
17:12post her pictures, call her Queen V,
17:15followed her everywhere like perfume.
17:17They laughed as if her entire existence was a joke.
17:21The loudest amongst them, Anita said,
17:23Vanessa thinks everybody is jealous of her.
17:26Meanwhile, she has nothing, except her father's money.
17:29Remove daddy and she's an empty vessel that ends up making the loudest noise.
17:34Another went on to add,
17:35Honestly, Vanessa is not even a good person.
17:38She's just fine, that's all.
17:40No kindness, no humility, nothing.
17:43If not that her parents are rich,
17:45you will never catch me dead with an unruly girl like her.
17:48Imagine her wickedness to that old man.
17:50God will punish her one day.
17:52They all burst into laughter again,
17:54sipping their drinks,
17:55calling her stupid,
17:57shallow,
17:57empty,
17:58fake,
17:59and heartless,
18:00as Vanessa staggered backwards holding her chest.
18:02It hurt.
18:03It hurt more than hunger.
18:05It hurt more than her thirst.
18:07More than sleeping beside the gutter,
18:09she realized in that moment
18:10that nobody truly loved her,
18:13not even her so-called friends.
18:14They only loved what she had
18:16and were with her because of it.
18:18Tears poured down her old wrinkled cheeks
18:20as she walked away,
18:22each step heavy like her heart was carrying a cement.
18:25For the first time,
18:26Vanessa understood what it felt like to be laughed at
18:29with no voice to defend yourself.
18:31Later that evening,
18:33she caught up beside an abandoned shop
18:34and wept bitterly.
18:36She could not believe how she belittled others
18:38just to make herself feel better.
18:41Vanessa remembered how she treated the poor old woman
18:44whose body she now possessed.
18:46All she had to do
18:47was give her some water to drink,
18:50but instead,
18:51she poured the water on her.
18:52Not caring how inhumane her actions were,
18:55Vanessa wept as she began to apologize,
18:58promising that if she ever gets back to her body,
19:00she would be nothing but kind
19:02and considerate towards others.
19:04Her tears soaked the dusty ground
19:06as she cried herself to sleep.
19:08The next morning,
19:09Vanessa woke up to the shocker of her life.
19:12She was now in her room,
19:13lying down on her soft bed,
19:15which she had missed for all these weeks.
19:18Her eyes widened in disbelief
19:19to realize that she was finally back in her own body.
19:23Oh my God!
19:24Vanessa screamed,
19:25grabbing her face,
19:27her hair,
19:27her body.
19:28It's me!
19:29It's me!
19:30I'm back!
19:31She burst into tears,
19:32not the fake Instagram type,
19:35the deep grateful kind that came from the heart,
19:37that had been humbled,
19:38broken,
19:39and rebuilt.
19:40Vanessa jumped up and hugged her pillow,
19:43laughing and crying at the same time.
19:45But then,
19:46something inside her stopped her celebration,
19:48a memory,
19:49a hunger,
19:50the humiliation,
19:51the begging,
19:52the loneliness,
19:53the old woman's trembling hand,
19:55the bucket of cold water.
19:57Vanessa suddenly dropped to her knees.
20:00Thank you!
20:00Thank you God for this second chance!
20:03I promise!
20:04I won't waste it!
20:05She said as her maids walked in to greet her,
20:08expecting the usual insult.
20:10However,
20:11instead of insulting them,
20:13Vanessa stood up and smiled at them.
20:15Good morning!
20:16She said softly,
20:17as the maids froze.
20:19Vanessa,
20:19in that moment,
20:21apologized to them for all the terrible things that she did,
20:23and said to them,
20:25I'm sorry for everything,
20:26for the way I treated you all these years.
20:28I was wrong!
20:29She said as they all stared at her like an alien.
20:33You are human beings,
20:34and you deserve respect.
20:36Thank you for all the times you took care of me,
20:38when I didn't even appreciate you.
20:40One maid burst into tears,
20:42as the others followed.
20:43Vanessa hugged them tightly,
20:45something she had never done in her entire life.
20:48From that day,
20:49she treated them with kindness,
20:51patience,
20:51and dignity.
20:52She learned their names,
20:54asked about their children,
20:55gave them better salaries,
20:57reduced their workload,
20:58and made sure her home became a safe place for everyone to work and live.
21:03Vanessa,
21:03then set out in search of the old woman.
21:06She wanted to apologize properly,
21:08and had to find her to do so.
21:10She searched the street,
21:11went to the junction,
21:13checked under the bridge,
21:14and even asked beggars and roadside sellers for her.
21:17But no one had seen the poor old woman.
21:20Vanessa was so disappointed.
21:22She returned the next day,
21:23and the day after that,
21:25and even the next week.
21:26But still,
21:27no one had seen the old woman.
21:29It was as if the woman had disappeared from the face of the earth.
21:32So,
21:33one evening,
21:34exhausted and heartbroken,
21:36Vanessa sat in her room,
21:37flipping through her diary,
21:39a diary she hadn't touched in months.
21:41As she turned the pages,
21:43a small folded paper slipped out.
21:45Her heart skipped,
21:46as she opened it curiously.
21:48It was a handwritten note that read,
21:50Kindness is the water that quenches the thirst of the soul.
21:53Thank you for finally drinking from it.
21:56Vanessa pressed the note to her chest,
21:57as tears rushed down her face.
21:59She wept like a child,
22:01not out of sadness,
22:02but out of a deep,
22:03overwhelming gratitude to a woman,
22:05who taught her kindness in the most unusual way.
22:08Vanessa remembered the humiliating video she made of her online.
22:12She opened her Instagram page,
22:13and found the video,
22:15which now had millions of views and comments.
22:16Vanessa took down the video,
22:18as she made an apology video,
22:20one that shook the internet at its core.
22:23Within minutes,
22:24her page exploded.
22:26People were shocked,
22:27confused,
22:28some applauded,
22:29some doubted,
22:30some mocked,
22:31but Vanessa did not care.
22:32For once in her life,
22:34she wasn't living for applause.
22:36She unfollowed every friend who laughed at her during her lowest moment.
22:39She blocked the fake account.
22:41She cut off every toxic group chat,
22:43and left behind Vanessa whose heart was empty.
22:46From that day on,
22:47Vanessa lived a life full of kindness and love.
22:50People in Lagos began to whisper,
22:52that Vanessa had changed,
22:54not because she announced it,
22:55but because kindness glowed from her like perfume.
22:58Her parents were shocked.
23:00Her maids felt safe.
23:01Her community respected her.
23:03And Vanessa finally felt something money could never buy.
23:07Peace.
23:08And though she never saw the old woman again,
23:10Vanessa never forgot her.
23:12Every time she treated someone with kindness,
23:14she felt a soft, gentle warmth around her.
23:17Almost like a blessing.
23:19The blessing that changed her life forever.
23:21The lesson to be learned from these stories is that,
23:24true beauty is not measured by wealth,
23:26appearance, or pride,
23:27but by the kindness we show to others.
23:30Life can change in a moment,
23:31and the same people we look down on today,
23:33may become the very ones we need tomorrow.
23:36Vanessa's journey teaches us that humility,
23:38open doors that pride will forever keep short,
23:41and that kindness,
23:42no matter how small,
23:44is the only wealth that never fades.
23:45I hope you enjoyed the story.
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