Although I find it hard to recall these events, I've really been a recipient of so many unmerited and undeserving favours. Right from when I was a kid , I've always enjoyed a lot of benevolence
One particular event that really touched me and can't seem to leave my head is one that happened years back in the university campus.
I had just graduated from high school and had applied to study civil engineering in one of the universities in the south of my country. I was to write the school's entrance examination and I needed to travel to the university to do so. I really didn't know anyone there so it was quite difficult for me to find a place to stay.
I was fortunately connected to a boy who now is my very good friend. He was already a student in the school. We attended the same church and so when someone from the church learnt that I was going there to write the university entrance exam and didn't have anywhere to stay, they beckoned on him to take me in.
I had always known this boy but we never really talked. From afar he had always seemed really uncool, he wasn't someone I had wanted to associate myself with.
Back then, I had looked at him with some sort of contempt and I had felt he was not of my level.
With the way we were in church - very distant from each other, I couldn't expect so much. I didn't expect a treat or a grand welcome. Infact all I wanted was just a place to lay my head for a day or two but I was surprised at the way he agreed and was infact excited to have me.
I embarked on this very long journey to the university. It took almost a day. With his help I was able to locate his place and I settled in.
My exams was in two and days so I had planned to use the next day to study and revise my books, I had also planned to locate my examination centre too.
What really struck me was how I was treated by this my friend. I was shown so much love. It was very much undeserving and unmerited. He took me like his brother. When I arrived, he prepared a very delicious meal for me and made sure I slept very well.
Early the next morning, I was up and studying, I need to start studies revision early. Almost immediately I woke up, my friend woke up too. He said he had planned to wake up early so he would wake me up to study. He then began helping and teaching me some tricks and skills on how to tackle some complex questions.
He had experience as he was a student already and so he took his time to explain what I was likely going to see. He was really concerned about my progress and it really touched me
When the day was bright, we took our bath and we set out to locate my exam center where my exam would be taken place the next day. He ceased the opportunity to show me around the school and I really had a nice time one.
After that, he took me to some of his friends and got me some books which he said I needed to read in order to do well in the exam the next day. He had to cancel every engagement he had that day including his classes just to make sure that things went well for me.
When we got home that evening, he made dinner which we ate. I needed to sleep because of my exams the next day so I climbed on the bed immediately.
At about 4'oclock the next day, I was woken up by my friend who had already brought out some writing materials and the books which we had borrowed from his friends.
I was again baffled that he'd lose sleep because of my own issue. He was already a student and didn't need to stress himself yet he chose to make these sacrifices because of me, someone he barely knew.
He began tutoring me. He taught me quite a lot till it was dawn then he asked me to go get set so we could leave for the exam venue. He followed me to the exam venue before he left for his classes.
The exam was a very tough one probably one of the toughest I had ever written but it was really amazing how the few things I was able to remember and answer in the exam were the ones he taught me.
After the exams I went home and told him about how it all went, about how a lot of what he taught me came out in the exam questions. I was so glad and I thanked him for taking his time to coach me.
The next day, as I embarked on the journey back to the house, it dawned on me that I had almost not spent any of my money since I arrived 3 days back. My friend had been the one footing all the bills and he never even bothered to ask me for anything.
I was really overwhelmed. Such love and care was indeed rare. I was ideally supposed to be the one doing the spendings since I had just come from fresh the house and he had been away from home and would have spent a huge chunk of his pocket money, plus I was the reason for most of our outings and was almost the sole beneficiary of the outcomes.
Thinking of all these made me really flabbergasted. I knew I didn't deserve all the care and love I got. I was so overwhelmed and ever since I had realised how beautiful a soul he was. I am ever grateful and can never forget his love and care
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