Greetings everyone,
I think I speak for everyone when I say that we have all had some experience with ungrateful people. And the funny thing is that they may not even think they were ungrateful. That is how bad it is. It is an enigma within our society that desperately needs a cure. I don't know if it is an acquired skill of preying on kind people or if it is subconsciously done. Either way, it needs to be dealt with.
Just like many others, I have also had my fair share of the bitter taste of ingratitude. If I am to list the many times when I felt like the good I did for someone was repaid with evil, I think I could write a novel here. This is because, although I have seen this trait in people, I keep seeing the best side of people and give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps it is time I saw people for who they are and not continue to live in a fantasy.
I would like to therefore share the experience I had back in the university with a good friend of mine. This was the first person I made friends with in my university days since our first year on campus. We always shared similar views and had similar plans so we clicked very well and related quite well with each other.
We delved into media together and even started doing media trends on YouTube to see if we could gain traction and develop it into a big franchise. However, I decided at a point that the whole YouTube thing wasn't meant for me and stopped pursuing it together.
During our third year, he decided to set up a studio where he would carry out photo shoots and video shoots on campus. However, the problem was that he didn't have all the capital he needed to make this happen. So he sought for some funds to be able to do this. I, thinking I was helping out a friend gave him some money I had saved up to make me a partner in the business.
Like every startup, it was a bit difficult to get the business up to speed. But it soon started to gain traction.
All of a sudden, during one-semester break, he decided to take all the materials (camera, lights, and equipment) to his hometown and told us that he had relocated the business and was going to eventually pay any capital he received from any partner he had so that he would own the business outright.
That was when I realized that even though I had good intentions for the friend I thought I had, it wasn't being reciprocated.
This was when I learnt a bitter lesson in life that, givers must know their limit at all times because takers don't.
Thank you for your attention.