Making sacrifices is not until we lay down our lives for other people; it could be a stranger, family, or friend. Although we might not see a big deal in the things we do daily, many of our actions have turned out to be sacrifices we make for peace to reign.
I love making people around me comfortable even when I am not, and most people take that for granted because they think they deserve the sacrifice I made for them, which I only did for peace to reign.
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There was this woman that sells provisions on our street, and before I moved in with my husband, he had been buying foodstuffs from her, so I just thought that since he patronized her, I should do so as well.
One day I was on my way out and I needed cash, so I told her to give me the cash and I would transfer it back to her. I remembered doing the transfer on my way before I took the bike.
When I was coming back, I went to her shop to buy something, and she never mentioned that the money I transferred didn't get into her account, so I went home.
A week after my husband passed she sent me a message saying that I was owing her and I had refused to pay her, my husband got home and asked why I had to buy something on credit instead of asking him for money.
For some minutes, I was short on words because I never bought anything on credit from the woman since I moved into the apartment, so I was trying to figure out what I bought from her.
Later, I went to her shop so I could clear up the misunderstanding, and she said I owed her the money I took from her while rushing out the other day. I told her I had sent it immediately before I took the bike that day, but she wouldn't listen to me. All she was saying was that I was owing her.
I didn't have the money on me at the moment, so I had to call my husband at home so that he could transfer the money to her. He wasn't sure I was owing her, so that was why he didn't give it to her when she asked him.
When I got home, he told me that I shouldn't have taken the cash from her because she had done that to him before, and he had to pay twice for peace to reign.
I blame myself for not going to the POS to get the cash instead of taking it from her, which I later paid double for what I didn't owe. Well, I did that so that she could stop yelling at me or tell more people that I owed her.
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Sometimes we just have to let some things go for the sake of peace because some people don't mind tarnishing your image for minor issues, so I had to inconvenience my husband to pay the money that I wasn't owing for peace to reign.
Some months later, I overheard someone dragging with her the money she had collected and still insisting that she hadn't been paid.
I felt bad paying twice, but I couldn't argue with her or overlook the situation because she would definitely be telling everyone in the area that I owed, which I wouldn't like, and that was why I had to sacrifice the extra cash in my husband's account so that everyone could go on their way with peace in the area.
Ever since then, I didn't bother buying something from her; I would rather buy it from a shop and then bring it back home.