Lockington's Everyday Fiji ... Life Goes On

                                                                       Good Dad

During my stint with the Fiji National University  Nadi I saw this middle aged chap in my class.

About a month later I took him aside and we sat and chatted. I asked why he had enrolled when he already had a good job. He said that he had a daughter who had enrolled at FNU but had found it hard to keep up with lectures and dropped out. She told him that even he wouldn't be able to hack it.

He sat back and said that all his family had ordinary low paying jobs because of lack of high education and he wasn't going to let his daughter go through the same thing. So he enrolled secretly without tell his family.

His wife became suspicious when he would come home late and they would have little arguments. He assured her there was no other woman. He never took home his books and never let on on what he was doing.

Then three  months down the road a friend of his daughter told her that her dad had enrolled at FNU Nadi. She was shocked.

One evening when they were having their devotion he told the family that he had enrolled to show his daughter that he could hack it.

To cut a long story short, the daughter went back to FNU and the dad and daughter now both have diplomas. He will soon be promoted at his work place and the daughter now has a better chance of getting a better paying job with her diploma.

I was inspired by this man even after he had left school years ago. Nothing is impossible for those who believe.


Allen Lockington is a self-employed customs agent and business consultant who has regular articles published in Fiji. I thank Allen for permission to reprint some of them in this political blog. They remind us that life goes on, whatever the political situation. And it's good to know that.