Indeed not all that glitter is gold, this phrase is self explanatory and also explains a lot of situations happening in the world today, we see things and envy them thinking it is pure gold but rather, they are just some sort of mud painted with colours of gold to deceive sights. Without much introduction, let me tell you a real life story that relates to this famous quote.

It all started in my first year in the institution, normally as a fresh or new student, you try to get along with your school system in everyway possible to get aquatinted and make new friends. Back then i only knew most of my colleagues facially but not their names. So i could easily tell facially if a person is my colleague or not.

As new students, we always tend to struggle and work very hard to attend classes and keep up to most school activities, you needed to see the way we get stock in a tiny lecture hall with thousands of new students because we were huge in number. But within all of these struggles, we do sight some of our colleagues who never cared about attending classes or even involving in some school activities. They were some colleagues we see that just drive in to school with some flashy cars just to relax under a tree with their peer clicks doing absolutely nothing while the rest of us are sweating heavily in the lecture hall.

But guess what, these guys that never attended classes never fails their results, so what the hell was actually going on?. At the end of the semesters you will see their results posted on the notice board with a minimum of "C" and "B" on their results while we that even attended classes were struggling and scaring through with "D" or "C".
Obviously without doubt these guys had money to sort out every course in the university and i always assumed they all came from a rich and wealthy home merely looking at they way they show off in and outside school.

During my second year in school, one evening i was walking down to school in preparation for an evening lecture then on my way to school o saw government officials and some police officers that we call state anti rubbery squad(SAS) parading themselves at a spot with some group of students sited on the floor with their clothes pulled off and some injuries over them. When i walked closer, i saw these colleagues that i always assumed were actually rich people from wealthy homes and i was shocked, i asked the people who were close to the scene what happened and they said, those were students they caught doing some internet frauds we popularly call "Yahoo boys/girls" and that some were caught trying to sell a car that doesn't belong to them.

I was soaked in shock but at the same time wasn't so surprised after all because the world has really turned into something else with the current generation of youths. I really do pity for women especially because they get moved by guys who look flashy without knowing how they make their money or the source of income for some of these guys.

Unfortunately this colleagues of mine were never heard of again since that day and that was the last time we ever seen their faces in school. I really don't know where they are today or what they are doing currently because i wasn't so acquainted to them, don't know their real names nor even have any form of contacts with them but i just hope and pray that they are in a better place today and doing something legit to utilize and sustain themselves. Indeed, not all that glitter is assured to be gold.

𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝔽𝕠𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕝𝕖 𝕚 𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕖𝕟𝕛𝕠𝕪𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕥 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕚𝕥.