Hello readers and fellow bloggers, it is another edition of weekly featured content titled "stingy or greedy" opportunity found" in hive learners community
I must admit, i couldn't stop laughing when I read this week title of weekly featured content 3rd edition because I had the picture of a person in mind already 🤣.
In life, in the course of interacting and communicating with others, you will encounter different kind of people with different lifestyle, attitude, personality. Which is one of the major component in being humans, this personality or attitude distinguish every human from another.
As a person, I have a very small circle of friends because there are sets of behaviour and attitude I seek in a friend, the moment I see the opposite of what I want in a friend I distant my self from them before it becomes an issue, it is evident that every human has what he or she can tolerate but in my own case I find it difficult to tolerate selfish people.
The act of being selfish does not really stand alone, it is an element of greed, it is a proven fact that for every greedy person they are expected to be selfish because you can't be selfless and also be greedy it is two opposite behaviour.
I do not not detest stingy individuals because I do not have expectations from people, everyone has the right to do as they please with their properties and belongings, it is their choice to choose to be generous with whatever they have, Stinginess I can tolerate to a level as long as you do not expect me to give mine when you don't reciprocate the same action.
In life we tend to misunderstand people, there are some people who are willing to give but they don't have and such people are considered to be greedy based on their inability to provide or meet the expectations of people around them, while they are others with gigantic wealth but they still don't want to give, generosity is an attitude it doesn't matter if you have or not, like I said I have no issue with stingy individuals.
On the other hand, I have a very low tolerance for greedy individuals because they are capable of a lot of things, they are driven by selfish desires without any care for people in their surroundings, it is proven that one of the reason for adamant rampage of corruption is as a result of greed. obsessing over things that are out of reach or extreme desire for wealth that is out of their capabilities.
Greedy people are very predictable because they have unyielding desire for wealth and ambition at any cost, they will trade anything or anyone to get what they want. One thing common among greedy individuals is their thirst for power. Having much experience with these individuals I tend to distant myself from them as much as possible.
My recent encounter with a greedy colleague
I had an encounter with a very greedy individual recently but despite the fact that I knew, I still kept him close for some reason only known to me, maybe because I haven't seen enough of his greed.
We knew each other from HND 1 second semester, we both run the same kind of business within the school premises which involves form application, online payments e.t.c due to this we grew closer, I didn't oppose the friendship because I felt like we could be of use to each other and from the looks of it he commercialised on this business before I did, I kind of wanted us to be friends than competitors.
We grew closer in the process of the higher national diploma program, since my own business involves writing of script and broadcast related practical and assignment, he seeks assistance a lot from me whenever he needs it, I never charged him for it but little did I know that after he gets the scripts written by me, he will duplicate it and market it to other broadcast group, which is like selling my ideas without my consent. I found out but I never confronted him about it.
He kept on with his greedy attitude but I kept giving him a pass, until recently. After our second semester examination, we started working on our final year research project, the process involves picking three topics of your choosing and submitting to our supervisor for approval.
This so called friend of mine brought some of his female friends to me for project topics, since he knew I have more experience with research project than he does and I also render research project services to people, I gave topics to his friends for free hoping that when they get their project topics approved they will come back and patronise my research project business, but I was wrong
Since he knew that he doesn't render research project services, after his female friends I gave topics to got their topics approved, instead of bringing them back to me, this friend of mine, went out of the school premises to look for another person rendering project services, he handed over them to the man and collected commission from the man, I found out about this but I refused to ask him about it because I believed he has the right to take his customers to wherever he pleases.
When it was time for him to do his own research project, he gave the work to me and pleaded that he doesn't have any money, that I should assist him with it, I was thinking, why did he not take it to other person. I didn't say anything I collected his research project and did it for him without collecting a penny. I believed a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Until he did the unimaginable recently, we both have printers we use for printing for our customers, on this day he phoned me and asked if he could come over because there was no electricity for him to print at his place, I didn't hesitate I invited him over, he came, spend the night and left the following morning.
During the afternoon, I decided to use my printer to print some documents for some customers, in the process I realised the document looks faded which means the ink in the printer toner has finished, this toner I just filled it two days ago and I have not printed up to one Reem of A4 paper, I was curious to remove the toner and check what was going on, surprisingly I realised it wasn't mine because the label on the toner was different from mine.
No one could have had access to to my printer because it is in a close space in my room, then I thought of my friend that came to visit, knowing the kind of person he is, I couldn't stop suspecting him, I took a bike and I headed straight to his place because I knew if I called him, he might deny it. luckily for me, on getting their I did not meet him in his room, I met one of his female friends in the room, which I knew, her name was jumoke.
I greeted her, and went straight to his printer, I opened it and I found my printer Toner in his printer, I was so disappointed. I never knew he could do such a thing, maybe he thought I would not recognise my printer Toner or I wouldn't notice it is missing
While I was still in his room, he came back and saw me beside his printer, from his reaction I knew he knows what I came for, he just frooze. I dropped his printer Toner, took mine and I left his room without uttering a word.
After that day, he called and messaged me many times, I didn't reply because I know I will be extremely disgusted by anything he has to say. Among many of his previous attitude I couldn't let this one go because I realise he was ready to jeopardise my equipment for his own selfish gain and who knows what he might do next. that was how we went our separate ways and we never said a word to each other again.
Well, it has some effect on me, it made me paranoid and extremely difficult for me to place my trust in people, that is why up till this moment I distance my self from any greedy person immediately I sense it in their attitude.
that is all for now, until next time stay safe🤗🤗🤗.
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