Once Bitten, That’s All

One time in primary school, we were asked to bring personal items that meant a lot to us. I didn’t send anything because I just didn’t want to. In fact if I’m being honest, I just wanted to pull a stubborn stunt and the funny part is I got my squad to do same too. When we were asked why we didn’t do what was asked of us, we lied that we couldn’t get them, which made absolutely no sense. But our teacher had no choice and couldn’t force us to do so.

The following day, we all brought those stuff we were asked to bring. Our teacher got angry and didn’t understand what was going on. So you could have brought them but you didn’t? Why?. Honestly, I didn’t see what the fuss was about. Come on, you just taught us the rebellious nature of Yaa Asantewaa let her lead the Ashanti Kingdom to war against the British colonial rule. What’s so bad about kids aspiring to be her?

Guess what guys? Philomena snitched on me. She snitched on the whole squad about our plans to go against our teacher. We were punished for days and each blessed day my hatred for her grew. I cut her off from my friend group and decided to have revenge. Of course she came back begging with a lot of letters. I mean who wouldn’t want to hang with the popular kid? But I said no.

Eventually, I caught her stealing from the administration block one day and honestly, if we were still friends, I would have let it go but I couldn’t recognize her anymore. I reported her and she got expelled. You might think I went too far or even blame it on the fact that I was a kid. But then, nothing has really changed. I can stand everything but the moment you snitch on me as a friend or stab me in the back, bye!

My friends call me second Jesus for many reasons. One of them is the fact that I always have opened arms waiting to receive anyone who comes to me with apologies. Most of my friends hate to hear that someone offended me and after the person apologized, I let it go. For me, I believe it’s alright to make mistakes and step on toes here and there. The only problem is don’t wait to step on my toe intentionally when I’m not looking.

I read something the other time about someone saying she didn’t die when she got shot but she died when she saw who pulled the trigger. I felt it because it hurts to experience betrayal from people around you. There are times you just get shocked that this person did something like that to you in the dark. And that shock is exactly what it takes for me to cut and erase people from my life.

As I said, I believe it’s okay to make mistakes. Do whatever you want to do but the moment you do something behind my back? Have a nice life!