All He Needs Is Love

In order to be truly good, a person has to speak the truth, act with and stand for the truth. The true measure of a good person is their courage to think with their heart, allowing nonconformist viewpoints, decisions, and perspectives to lead their lives. Those who follow their hearts stand only with God and with their conscience.

Collins was a young boy born into a Christian family in a corrupt society. As a young boy he was completely enchanted by love, and his heart was swimming in it from an early age. There are three main traits that he possesses: an authoritative personality, a wise spirit, and the ability to think two steps ahead of anyone who surrounds him. The type of environment in which he found himself causes his mind to corrupt at the slightest event. In addition, Collins does possess a good power of imagination. When he meets you, he uses his imagination to visualize the type of life he would like to live with you.

When Collins was five, his mother hired a maid. Someone who assists with household chores, such as cooking and washing. It was her, Elizabeth, who led Collins into his sexual and love life. She taught him everything that a girl had, and she also showed him how to set up a sexual relationship with a girl. Collins, who has the ability to quickly and efficaciously assimilate what he is taught, picked up right away and started applying it to his life. Now he has developed a greater sense of attraction to girls, he finds it easy to be aroused whenever he is around them.

Whenever his mother and Elizabeth go to the market, he invites their neighbor for a drama. He will be the one to say what they will act and how they will act it and finally chooses the role of a father. He picks someone as his wife and they will be sleeping in another room why their children will be in another. Collins' heart Seeks pure love with any girl that comes around him and this led him to meet different girls down the road of life.

The first girl that he came in contact with was Rita who was living on the third floor with her parents. Rita was a very beautiful girl and also a spoiled child. Collins and Rita are in the same age bracket (7) and also attend the same school. Collins met Rita and his heart felt love and happiness. They start to share good moments after school, like doing assignments together. When Elizabeth noticed this closeness between the two, she decided to spice things up for them. During the afternoon or evening time that Rita will come for assignment, Elizabeth will decide that it is time for Collins to take his bath and will also ask Rita, a small girl who she knows is very corrupt to join her as she was bathing Collins. This event continues with Elizabeth warning Collins never to tell his mother. On one fateful day, Elizabeth asked Rita to teach Collins what her parents do at night and which she did. Finally, the young Collins was exposed to the world of sexuality. All he wanted was for Rita to show him love not to take him to the other part of the world. Things never continued like this, because all Collins wanted was loved and never the other side of it. His little friendship that he was trying to build with Rita stopped at the way as he made pursuits for the heart that will love him as he want.

Collins continues to grow in knowledge and wisdom as he progresses through life. By the time he is eight years old, he already recognizes the characteristics of a beautiful lady. As a member of a spiritual family and one with the fear of God, he was forced by his mother to attend the children's fellowship meeting that normally took place in the evenings. As a member of the fellowship, Collins never participated fully or gave his maximum concentration to the prayers, and there were times when he missed the fellowship maybe two or three times a week. When he comes back around 8 p.m.

his mother will try to question him about what he learned from The Fellowship, but he never answered any question.

On one fateful day, Collins returned from school. He did not meet anybody at home and was very hungry at the same time. He went to the kitchen and discovered that the whole pot was empty. His mind wandered as he sat on the small stool near the stove, thinking about what to cook. Though many ideas entered his head, he did not know how to execute them since he does't know how to cook. He also thought of going to mama Isaac's shop to get something on credit, but he knew that his mother was going to kill him for doing that. His memory was enriched with much thought and he was able to recall that the biscuits he normally takes for breakfast in the morning are in his mother's room, on top of the wardrobe. He quickly headed towards the room and with the help of a chair, he was able to get the biscuits and took only four pieces. When his mother came back, she noticed that someone had invaded her room and the only thing the person could be looking for was biscuits. Not thinking twice, he called her son and asked if he took any biscuits from there. Collins, who has the gift of being two steps ahead of someone, said no without waiting for the second question to come in.

The mother immediately called the director of the fellowship and told him what had happened. In the evening time when Collins arrived for fellowship the director called him aside and gave him 10 strokes of cane. After crying Collins told the full story about the biscuits. This even made his moral go down about attending fellowship again and he slept off that night without talking to his mother. In his dream, he took an oath never to attend fellowship again. After 2 months of being absent from the fellowship, Collins noticed a strange face in their compound. A decent-looking girl who his brain told him that they might be in the same age bracket. Every evening the girl ties her scarf and heads towards the venue for the fellowship. She comes back in the evening and in the morning goes to school. There was no chance or opportunity for Collins to befriend her and now what is going to make Collins start fellowship again has finally come.

Collins spent weeks trying to know her name. Instead of staying inside to wash plates, he will carry them outside to know if he can get the little girl's attention or if her mother can call her. On a very good day, her mother finally mentioned her name which was Amara. Amara was a small girl between the age range of seven. At a little age, she can spend time reading her book, do some house chores and also say her prayers. The only time that you can see her outside is when she's back from school or going to fellowship.

Collins was not in the same school with her and the only opportunity to befriend her is to start fellowship again.

Finally, Collins started fellowship but this time from a different perspective. He bought a Bible and a prayer book. He makes sure he reads it all the time to have some of the prayers of head. Whenever he comes back from school he does everything fast in order to be the first person to arrive at the fellowship center. Like always Collins discovered Amara is a very intelligent girl and the only way to associate with her is by proving that he is also an intelligent being. After prayers at the fellowship center, Collins will always volunteer to teach others the little prayer that he knows and also pick a Bible portion to read. Everybody was amazed how Collins changed suddenly but they did not know that he has a plan for doing that. Amara on her side does not know some of the prayers and having a neighbor such as Collins can go a long way in helping her. On one sunny afternoon, Amara came back from school, after her siesta she went straight to Collins's house and knocked. Through the window, the young Collins saw the beautiful Amara at his doorstep, cleaned his mouth full of red oil, and drank water immediately. He went straight to the door, opened it, and with a smile on his face asked little Amara how he could help her. Amara pours out her motive for the visit and the young Collins agreed to help immediately. After school, they always set aside like an hour before siesta for the lecture. Mama Collins on her side was even surprised how her son changed suddenly. She went on to promise him gifts upon gifts. Suddenly the intimacy between Collins and Amara grew stronger as they spent much time learning from each other.

At the fellowship center whenever you are looking for Amara just look for Collins. Well in life things don't end up as we plan. Amara's auntie from Lagos sent one of her sons to live with them. Chidiebere was much older than Collins. He (chidiebere) was also good at the fellowship prayers and this cut the gap between Collins and Amara. Amara no longer looks for Collins to teach her those prayers since her cousin can do that. Collins always cries and feels disheartened whenever he sees the two going and coming back together not minding they were related. Soon Collins stops going to the fellowship again. When his mother noticed that he no longer attend fellowship, she confronted her son who told her that his friend no longer likes him. Asking who the friend was, Collins told his mother that it was Jesus Christ and that he promises to start when he begins to like him again.

There is nothing better than a love that awakens your soul; one that makes you strive for more, one that plants the fire in your heart and brings you peace of mind. That's what I hope to give you forever. – The Notebook