Value of life comes from within a person. One’s value is not determined by the material things he possesses, therefore it is best we know the value of our life and realise where best to give people our invaluable worth. Rosemary Olubode, the visionary woman behind Rosemary Olubode Inspirational is one among us all who understood the essence of it.
The Rosemary Olubode Inspirational founder was born on January 12, 1975, in the city of Lagos, to a family of six. Raised with substantive Christian training, which formed part of what has shaped her outlook about life, the second of four children was nurtured by strict and hardworking parents, who made sacrifices to ensure the family had the best they could afford.
Without a sermon from childhood, Rosemary Olubode placed a high premium on academic excellence. She attended Onoyade Community Primary School, and got her secondary education at Jibowu High School in Lagos. She demonstrated unusual distinction as a student and in 1993 emerged as the best student in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in her school. She proceeded to the reputable University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Edo State to study Pharmacy. After her graduation, the mother-of-three embarked on Internship at Psychiatrist Hospital in Uselu, after which she observed the compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Akwa Ibom State.
Rosemary Olubode was married for 18 years to Niyi Olubode, an engineer, who died after a fire incident in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Blessed with three children; twin girls and a boy, the pharmacist holds deep memory of every minute of the years she spent with her beloved husband. They shared similar values about life and mutual philosophy about a marriage built on understanding and love.
With couples going through rough patches in marriages today, due to the failure of the pair to come to terms with their responsibilities, particularly women, the trained pharmacist is geared towards enlightening current generation of women and raising the next, about their traditional roles in marriage to their husbands and children, through Rosemary Olubode Inspirational, where she shares her stories.
“What has changed is that women of this generation, they take a lot of things for granted. They want to live the life they see on social media and it is all fake. And it is sort of different in the way they think, they are carried away, not calm and do not want to understand their spouse. They are following what is said on TV, on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Those days, there was no Instagram, so your model was the way your parents brought you up. Now, though they have a way their parents brought them up, but they are still looking at life in the glam. So they now compare, most of them choose what is said on social media, which is wrong,” Rosemary Olubode explained in an interview.
“My Inspirational stories are really helping me. In one of my videos which I have not released, I talked about this because a lot of people will say why is she sharing her story. Some women are lazy to take care of their home; they are. They would feel like they’ve been at work since like 8.00am, close at 5pm, driving through traffic. They will be tired. They will just order food online, they have chefs and cooks. There was this particular incident where one of my family friends came to my house and we were talking but I was busy doing other things. And she asked me: ‘Aunty Rosemary, I this boy house, who cleans for you?’ I said nobody, she asked ‘who cooks for you?’, I said nobody. Who does this, I said nobody, and she asked who really do them, and I said I do them.
“She wasn’t too surprised because she was our n3ighbour where we were living when my husband was alive. The things I could do by myself, I try to do them, even as a working class woman. They are just lazy hiding under the pretense of work. They are just lazy, they do not want to do anything.”
The brain behind Rosemary Olubode Inspirational, who mentioned her mother as one of the individuals who have inspired her in life, argued that though some men are not contented with whatever their wives do at home, stressed that lack of proper care at home is the reason some men consider having partners outside marriage.
