Have they ever been a time where you said something and that thing starts fighting you in the future, something you didn't even mean to say, something that you said carelessly? Or, I have, and it was not funny.
When I was much younger, I was in secondary school. I had a friend named Melody; she was very, very close to me. She was my classmate, and she was my church member. We've been friends since we were very small because our mothers were close friends.
So, I was in school that day, and my classmate borrowed my note. I was looking for it for weeks, and I hadn't found it. I didn't know I had borrowed the note to that classmate I learned that someone said they saw it with her, so I went to confront the girl. Now, here's the story: the girl is from Ogoni, an ethnic tribe in Nigeria. They are usually talked down upon because of their character. I never knew the character of Ogoni people, but I've always known that everybody doesn't like them. So, I grew up not liking them. As I was expecting every other reaction, I said, "I don't like Ogoni people," because they would have been like that to me.
Back to my story... I went to confront her, and I asked her for my note. She said, "Oh, yes, it's true, you gave it to me 3 weeks ago." I was so annoyed, and I shouted at the top of my lungs, "That's why I hate Ogoni people!" And then, oh no! Melody, my friend, I forgot that she's from Ogoni! Hi! I was so shocked when I came down from my anger and from my outburst. She was like, "Hey, why did you say that?" And I was like, "No, no, no, no, no, you are different, your Ogoni is different." I tried explaining myself, but maybe I wasn't clear to her.
Becanext Sunday, her mother confronted me in front of my mother, and I was really sad and confused. I thought she would keep something like that in her head. Maybe she has faced it so much in her life, maybe because it's just where she comes from, or maybe I should not expect it from somebody so close to her. I do not know, and I did not care about the emotions she was feeling. I only cared that I was so sad, I was so angry that she would keep something as small as that in her head and took it to church and made a sin out of it. I cried at the thought of it. But that was my story.
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