Helped By a Total Stranger
There are still good people out there. There used to be days when I feel as though I am the prince of the world because of how good people around treat me, not because I have done anything good to deserve such favors but out of the abundance of the goodness in their hearts they were moved to do so.
I have enjoyed a lot of favours from even people I do not know. One of the favours I got was while I was working in Abuja in the year 2020 . In fact starting from how I got the job alone was a miracle. It was in the church after a youth fellowship service that one woman called me and asked about my current employment status, I told her I was not doing anything yet, because as at then , I just graduated from college. After the long chat she requested for my mobile number and I gave it to her reluctantly. It never crossed my mind that she has a plan of getting me a job.
That same day when I got home, I received a call from her that brought joy to my heart, she offered me an opportunity to go and work for her brother at Abuja Nigeria. It was a good news to me, prior to that time I had nothing doing. I told my parents about it and they gave me their consent.
Ordinarily, I was supposed to start arrangements and get every resources that I would use for the journey myself but it all happened differently. When the day for the journey finally came, she called me early in the morning and told me not to go and board a taxi, her brother is coming to pick me up. Wow!! Meanwhile my parents had already given me money for transportation and the rest. I was very happy when she broke that news to me.
All I had to do was to patiently wait for him to come, so I went to the place she asked me to wait for him and relaxed until the man came. Though when he arrived I got to realize that he is not the one I would be working for, he just volunteered to pick me up. He was such a nice man, we spoke in the car a lot and he gave me a lot of advice, you know all this aged men😁😁 he is a senior lawyer in the Federal High Court Abuja.
All my life I have never met a rich God fearing man like that, I considered it a privilege, he gave me a lot of encouragement and narrated the stories of how he was once poor and had nothing but was helped of God when the right time came. Such a blessing. Through out the journey, I didn't spend a penny from my own money.
I had to pass the night at his place, because he came and picked me late. Early the next day, he took me to his office and from there he brought me to his brother's office and the brother took me to his house and showed me the shop where I would be working. It was all like God tied me to them. Ideally if I was to sponsor that journey myself, I am very sure that the Money I held would not take me anywhere.
The next miracle is at my boss's place, those of you that knows how working outside is, all yours bills are supposed to be on you. Your accomodation, feeding and the rest are solely your responsibility except otherwise agreed under certain conditions but in my case it was different, the man gave me a room to reside in his house, I have all I needed there, water, toiletries and so on. The one that blew my mind off was that he said I shouldn't bother about feeding, since I would be living in the same house with me, he would be feeding me. I had never experienced a favor like that from anybody.
This man doesn't know me anywhere from Adam yet he showed me so much love and treated me like his own child. The love became so much that it started making me feel uncomfortable but I had no option than to just enjoy God's goodness.
The last thing he did was, when it came to my salary, unfortunately I spend only a month there before the issue of Corona broke out, shops were locked down . So I decided that I was just coming home. He tried all he could to make me stay but to no avail. Guess what he did, I thought he was going to subtract from my salary money for accommodation and feeding but I was surprised he gave me my full salary as arranged and gave me extra money to travel back home.
Meeting that man was like meeting God himself, he showed me love I am sure even my relatives won't render to me if I was to be under them.
In conclusion, I understood that in life the best thing you can ever do to anyone at all is to be the reason for the smiles on their faces. You must not have all the money in the world first, no! Even without money you can be of help to that neighbor of yours next door. Love is unconditional, you don't have to know someone before you do good unto them. Let's us help and love expecting nothing in return. It might look silly but it is a seed you are sowing there. One day you will reap of it.
This is my entry for week 49 Edition 03 contest on Hive Learners community with the title ; Undeserved. Feel free to check it out.
