It was a very cold experience when a person I called my close friend accused me of stealing his phone, that day I felt really bad and didn't even know what to say, all I did was just keep on denying it to prove my innocence because I knew I didn't take it.
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I tried so many ways to convince him that I wasn't the one that stole this phone at that moment and that I had gone to use the toilet, he even searched me that day and said nothing but still didn't believe me that moment, this friend of mine was a very close friend that even his mom and my mom were very close, it felt very embarrassing be a I thought his mom might call my mom and start saying rubbish or accusing me of stealing because in know her nature.
At that moment, all I could do was just put on a sad face and walked out of the crowd to avoid further embarrassment and I was already feeling angry at this moment, I mean very angry this time, If I had stayed long I would have cried of flew up because I was very pissed off.
No greater embarrassment than seeing your best friend denying you in front of the crowd, especially when he blames you for stealing something you didn't take or hold which is very bad, sometimes I feel this even now. Since this day we have never spoken again even though he tried several times to get closer to me but I did not accept it again.
He later found the phone, his younger brother took his phone to his mom's shop and was using it to play games and he blamed me from the morning, till night, all this was because he did not put him inside his phone, he would have called and heard his brother's voice. I felt really bad, thank God there was not much crowd at that moment, I would have voiced out because this was very embarrassing. His mom tried to persuade and apologize to her, but after I told her everything that happened, I knew sure she could never accept such an apology, her word was “I don’t want to see you with Tunde again or even go to this place again”, and she meant it with a serious face and her fingers point to me with her straight face.
The feeling of being accused of something you did not do can be overwhelming if we can’t control ourselves, we must learn to understand that days like this will always come, it might not be in the form of stealing, but sometimes it can be in form of words, lies, mismanagement, mistakes or several other phenomenal because It is a fact of life that sometimes you will be rejected for bad reasons but we must learn to have self-control and total confidence in ourselves.
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