Chapter 7

A great friend will always besides you

A friend is someone supportive, want to see you make it big, contribute to your

growth and always there with you in dark and light days. as of today's world people use friend or word ' friend as tools to put people in uses for their interests, you know

sometime some people are not friends they are just scared to be your enemies; so they

use the word ' friend as a tools to make you happy to hold your back, they became

dumbfounded and some will have called it a Fake friendship.

 A friendship is good thing that can help some people make it big or reach their

dream goals in life, friends competing with giants not with each other’s.

 A friendship is un-apologetically thing that kept universe expanding for every

seconds in minutes of an hours of the days in weeks of the months in a year.

 A friendship is what allow sun to rise up every morning to give its shining to

the planets ' no matter how tired it was ' it still coming back tomorrow to

supplying planets with its energy.

How our current world look like today is behind imagination of deity of the universe,

you can't force things like friendship because anybody that came just for uses will leave

immediately after they found out; they can't afford to put you in uses instead of cheers

that's what they said’ friendship can't last forever.

Friendship is not love' they're different things" because love is a hate and hate is a love

that's way different from word ' friendship. if you happened to be a part of those

practicing friendship then you must understand Friendship goes with showing

supports not yours secret hatred, hold down, plant evil acts, and more’ to give you an

example’ there was an Actor struggled to do something so when he got a friends; the friends were very supportive, they did not worry about how he going to be look like,

so their efforts made an actor won it big and now they all won. checked yourselves if

you are not doing so to your current friends; then you're just disgrace; you better leave

them alone.

Great friend like my childhood friend Piol Akuol and Akok Mayen Piol Akuol as great

friend of all time' we shared fantastic timing together in our teenage, I understood Piol

was unique amongst all my previously childhood friends' Piol Akuol spent some time

prioritized me in everything we do; I never felt any act of jealousy from him' during

breakfast' Piol could definitely make sure am around in the breakfast table' or he will

discord the breakfast just to find out first where I am at; sometimes we go for fishing

in Akuem bridge, the place that was known for everyone where they go to get plenty

of fishes.

We play football together nearest our playground' what makes Piol Akuol as great

friend of all time is Piol himself care a words' what he saw bothering me' or any

disturbances nor against me has already involved him and he will join hands with me

to stop it, we spent the cheered moments of our teenage in 2009' going to the parties,

drums, making girlfriends sometimes when my girlfriend start drama with me trying

to end our relationship, Piol will make intervention and bring back us together, he got

my back in everything' although I was only son from my mother who has never had

experience of having brother, then Piol Akuol was exactly billion dollar brother not

only friend' he is one in lifetime experience.

Best friend, protector and person of tireless Supports towards my growth though we

were age-mate he never noticed that he put me first and expect me to win, what this

friendship offered to me, it taught me to do the same thing back to him when he no

longer stand on his feet to get my back" then it's my turn to get his back to let him

make sure he was supporting right person" not fake friend' Deng Jimmie is great person

as you expected in his teenage ' he never fake things' in 2014 we were spread by external disturbances in our hometown, then I travelled to north Sudan and then to

Egypt, later in Egypt I made researching for him for almost three years' people who

lives with him unable to connect us, they said’ they don't know where is he at, three

years later one of my area who was in Europe, chats with me online ask me how was

everyone else where, I said' everyone is doing somehow' thought I was looking for

my longtime friend Piol Akuol' do you have any knowledge about his whereabouts?

The guy response’ he is actually in khartoum, Sudan' I said' come on man" I have been

asking everyone in khartoum but they don't want to show me where is he at? People

must be rude" the guy told me ' I will connect you with him' few minutes later he sent

me screen shot of his social media account, during my reach to his inbox' Piol don't

recognize me' he was struggling to know my name and recognize my face for he was

knowing me by my childhood name not my legal name' he asked me who are you

please' I told him I will never explained myself to you if you fail to know who is me

actually' it's up to you to know me or not' Piol was so furious to know me quick but

he failed' he couldn't remember anything' I told him, you're Piol Akuol, telling him

the names of all his siblings.

He said' again come on man' who are you? I told him' do you have a best friend once

in a while?' that's when he shouts loaded he knows just now' Deng Akon Aguer' my

childhood friend, thanks God for we meet again, I have been looking for you' I told

him didn't I got you, we spend more than two hours talking, I was very happy to meet

him again.

Another childhood friend Akok Mayen, was also a great friend too' I remember when

we did vendor businesses with Arabs when we used to take trip to wanyjok marketing

day' It was morning time when Akok asked me to go to wanyjok in this marketing day' we have to go and make money, what you think? Akuem market is empty today

because everyone when to wanyjok, we have to go and come later with people who

went there' Akok was serious and in desire of pushing me to accept going to wanyjok'

I asked him Akok do you think we can make great money when we get there" Akok

response" most definitely, we could make so much cash for sure' I said’ where we will

get car for trip seemed like all lories are gone' Akok told me to wait" he runs to nearest

Lorry and ask them to allow us come along with them' then Akok return back to me

and told me come along I got a car.

We came to where lorry is preparing to leave for wanyjok and we took a trip to

wanyjok, after Lorry Arrives we jump off the lorry and enter wanyjok marketing

looking for a jobs' few minutes of researching Akok got a job and start working' he

told me to do more research and I did' I got a job too, we worked with Arabs traders

as day-pay' we worked and worked until Afternoon and evening' during the time as

day-pay ended in evening time at 7:00pm' Akok didn't realized the Lorry which

brought us might leave at 6:00pm, we finished our works at 7:00pm and rushing to

place where lorry was standing at and found lorry has left' we asked everyone around

and they said lorry has left' Akok was feeling down to hear it" he came back with

shocked face' telling me Deng' we are not Lucky! The lorry has left' I almost Shock to

hear this too' he asked me what can we do?' I told him find someone wearing watching

and ask him about what is the time is it?' Akok went to restaurant near and ask the

actually time' he came and said" it is 7:30pm.

I told him we have to leave on foot going home (Akuem) since nobody could help us

find place for sleep here in Wanyjok' yeah it's our county but being in our county

could not help us find sleeping place' Akok asked' what about big forest between

manyiel and Akuem how we are going to cope with: do you think it is easy? There's lot going on in that forest and we might be a victim of deadly forest' I told him’ we

have to leave now' Akok accept the decision of going home' we started running

jogging from wanyjok to manyiel and take little rest in manyiel by walking slowly, we

didn't running again' this took us from 7:45pm to 9:15pm, it was darker hours' there

were no moon shining at that night which made the forest between manyiel and

Akuem more darker' place us in walking with fears' we came into big fear think of

how to get home on this darkness' we collected stick as self-defense' we walked and

walked until we arrive at little man made pool that was created by roads builder

company.

We were walking along high way side that connected wanyjok, manyiel, Akuem and

Aweil' walking on sidewalk we hear something walking in front of us' Akok asked me

what is that? I said never mind brother" if anything appear trying to block us from

going home we must fight to break through' there is no choice now then to fight with

anything that can appear' Akok said' I agree we got this' there was noise going on but

we kept waking" few minutes later we reached out to someone who was walking to

Akuem with his sheep" a car coming from Aweil to Akuem lights high way that almost

reach us, it made us spots the dust that raised on other side of high way' after reaching

we hear sounds of sheep' Akok said’ these must be livestock walking with someone in

front of us" I shouted who are you? he responded" I'm human and called us to cross

the high way to other side to help him, we crossed to him greeted each other' we

walked together to Akuem and we arrived home and telling him goodbye.

Akok mayen take some time noticing we were great friends who could have die

together in bush full lions from wunyiik division three headquarter; Akok was exactly

someone who could believe in friendship’ keep his head up; telling a friend let’s do it’

it’s only thing we got’ when I told him ‘ Makuac Abuk’ we have to go home’ he didn’t

dive into world of fearing what is going to happens in front of us heading home’ he nods’ and follows me when start walking to joking while going home although he

have knowledge how the bush between Akuem and wunyiik looks like’ since he

noticed now this is not our goddamn choice, we have to go home no matter, whether

lorry left us or not; Akok was bravery to support decision’ I made and follows unwavering