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We are wired differently, as we journey on earth we will come across people with different characters, different mindsets and ideologies. Some of them will be accommodating while others may not. It's life people act funny, it just better for us to take our time to study them and handle them the way they are because honestly, some of them will never change.
I use to have this friend while I was in high school, he is still my friend though. This guy would always come to me when he has need to use a phone. Not that he doesn't have one but his parents monitor his activity on his phone because he was very stubborn. In fact, a point reached where they have to cease it from him permanently and guess what? We started sharing my phone.
Those days, he was always at my house anytime he comes for weekend (he attends a boarding school) He will use my phone to chat on 2go , Facebook and play games. It was a Nokia phone. To be honest with you I use to be inconvenienced by that but what are friends for? I always let him have it when he comes by.
There was a time he came to me and pleaded that I should help him with my memory card, he wants to try something out on a phone, I eventually did, days turned to weeks and I didn't see my memory. he suddenly stopped visiting me till they vacated for that term.
Subsequently, he came one evening to use my phone again. I asked about my memory card and he started telling me stories. I didn't want to drag the talk so, I just let it slide, moreover I was having another one. To be sincere I really like the guy. I trust him so much and I was just trying to protect our friendship. One day he came and pleaded to use my phone and he tarried till night fall. I was waiting for him to go back home but he doesn't seem to want to leave.
Later, he started begging me to let him use my phone for the night, because his phone was not yet given to him. I really didn't want to give him but I did. The following day, I waited for him to return back my phone but I didn't see him. I tried calling and he was not picking. I continued calling and calling with my mom's phone until evening.
After a lot of calls, he finally picked and told me that his uncle ceased my phone. Wow! And you couldn't even tell me? "How did you pick the call then"? I asked him, he said he removed his sim from the phone and slotted it in his mother's phone. Omo! I got so angry. Early the following day, I went to the house and met the uncle and told him the phone is mine. He asked me to prove it. I unlocked the phone and showed him some contacts.
He finally agreed, gave me back the phone and warned me sternly never to give the boy my phone again. They said he is stubborn and they want to him to be remorseful first before they give him back his phone. You won't believe me if I tell you that he still comes by and I still let him use the phone.
Years after, I think I was even done with College then, I was not having a smart phone, so I reached out to him and begged him to help me with his phone so that I can use it to open an account with student wallet (an online, investment platform. It was a ponzi scheme and it has already crashed) but this guy refused. He said he was busy with is phone. I tired to explain that I was not going to take it home, I will just register, invest and give him back his phone when I am done but he still refused.
Gosh! I felt so bad, I couldn't hold it inn, so I told him the little piece of my mind. How could you have forgotten so soon how I helped you with my phone when you were in need and even had my phone ceased because of you? Guess what he said, I am lying, he can't recall ever taking my phone to his house, talk more of having my phone spending a night at his place. Nothing like that ever happened. Well, I wasn't surprise with his response. I just kept mute and didn't say a word again till I left his place that day.
I felt so stupid for giving him my phone all those while, I remembered one time he spoilt the phone I had to fix it with my money and didn't tell even stop him from using the phone afterwards. I just learnt that there are some sacrifices that we should not make for some persons and if we must take the risk, we should just do it as a gift not expecting them to reciprocate it when we are in need.
Are we still together? One may ask, well, of course yes! We are still good friends but I know my limits. I understand the kind of person he is and I am treating him just the way he is. He is a very good person, guess that was just one of his weaknesses and we all have one.
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