Know when to walk away

The beautiful thing about friendship is that there’s room for growth, correction, exchange of ideas, counsel and the parties involved get to still love themselves.

Everyone around me knows I am a strong believer of love and friendship, I stand with the popular saying “No man is an island”, I could invest my all in a friendship just to make it work because if I choose to call you my friend you are truly my friend and are stuck with me!

Friendship makes correction easier, if I am your friend there’s no way I’d see something wrong in your life and wouldn’t say a word to you. To me, it’s better if it comes from me than from anyone else.

In the process of correcting my friends, I know when to draw the line, I know when to close the curtain of an argument and I also know when to save a chaotic situation regardless of anything or anyone in the picture.

I usually have so many heart-to-heart talks with people, we’d probably just start with a light conversation, and the next minute you’re opening up to me and seeking advice from me and I do not fail to give out what I know😃

Advising people can be really great but what happens when you get fed up? This leads me to the Thinker’s Corner prompt for this week👇

Have there ever been a point in your life that you looked at yourself and said; "I need to stop telling him/her what to do".
Think and tell us why you made that decision.

Oh dear, there have been so many times, so many times I have had to walk away from people’s businesses for peace to reign, there have been so many times that I have had to swallow whatever words of wisdom that I had to say and so many times I have had to appear as the bad guy.

There are so many cases of me giving up on advising my friends and worthy of note is the incident that happened a few months ago.

If there’s one thing I hate in life is people being insensitive, just because talking is free people tend to open their mouths and say whatever they want to because there are no consequences most times. I am a very sensitive person and I believe we all to an extent should have a part of us where we can read the room, and say what we have to say in the most polite manner that we can not bluntly saying trash in the name of “making your point” or “scoring points”.

I have this friend who talks carelessly, she’s so blunt that she can say whatever is on her mind without caring how the next person feels. There were times where I’d have to wink at her or tap her so as not to vomit all the words building up in her. Where she gets the confidence to say some kinds of things still baffles me till today.

I had so many conversations with this girl, I advised her countless times on the acceptable way to talk, and each time we had these sessions where I went on and on stressing on the importance of being sensitive and filtering one’s words, my friend would always listen attentively, some times you could even see how calm and remorseful she was Lol but just give this tigress some time and she’s back to square one again.

I kept advising this girl over and over again but there was no changes, all my advice went straight to the mud😂

Homegirl kept on living with this bad attitude of hers and didn’t fail to enlarge her camp of enemies as nobody can tolerate a person with a foul mouth!

I looked at this so called friend of mine and decided to give up on her, just like people say “You can lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink”. Giving up on this girl was my last resort.

You can keep advising a person but a person who is not ready to change will not change and when you get fed up with everything it’s okay to walk away😃

This is my response to the Thinker’s Corner prompt by @kenechukwu97