Life indeed is not a bed full of roses, life indeed is a battle for the strong minds only and not for the weak minds, over the years i have mingled, dined, and whined with a different set of humans, and still yet i can't say i know everything about these people because humans are unpredictable, corny and tricky...
I have mingled with the selfish kinds, the self-centered kinds, the annoying kinds, the loving kinds, the intelligent kinds, the corny kinds, the sneaky kinds, and most importantly the proud kinds...
The beautiful aspect of mingling with these different types of people is that i learn one or two tricks about life through them and some of it has been quite helpful over the years and that i am happy about...
I have made a lot of friends in the past and that is all because of my socializing skills, out of all the friends i have made in the past, i am just left with about 3 of them as we speak, which means i have cut some off knowingly and unknowingly and that is because i realized i couldn't meet up with them in the real world and instead of doing shady things, i decide to let them go...
One thing about life is that everything is turn by turn but these past friends of mine have decided to bring God's time nearer by using different means which is not the way i was brought up...
The fact is just that i have cut off a lot of friends because of one or two things and i believe cutting them off was the best decision of my life...
Without wasting too much time on my introduction to the topic, i will be taking you all into the main deal of my write-up for today which focuses more on a friend i met and know for just a month plus and decided to let go of before things get worse...
IT ALL HAPPENED 3 YEARS AGO...
I graduated high school about three beautiful yet challenging years ago, 😂😂 and i can remember vividly how beautiful this friendship started but all of a sudden, everything just went off and i felt like the best way to not get shady is by letting him go his way...
Okay guys here is what happened, i met a lot of people in my waec center three years ago and out of all these people, i was able to bond with that particular guy on a different level and that is because he shared the same interest as me, we have lots of similarities...
Thinking i have finally found a friend in an unexpected environment, i decided to be real with him and that was how our friendship started and guess what? i started seeing a very different side of him which was not something i expected of him...
As a waec student, i make sure k study at home, and also when i get to the center, i make sure i am 1-2 hours early before exam time to revise a bit before we eventually head in for the paper, at first Ahmed presumed to be a serious type like me but after several days together, i came to realize he was many things which include being a flirt and the unserious type...
The third week of the exam, he came to the center with an iPhone 11, i was very surprised because i know the worth of that phone, i ignored him and moved on...
The next day, i saw him with my classmates and decided to call him so we can revise together, on getting there he told me he doesn't need to read for the exam and that he has paid his teacher for the whole exam cheat, i was shocked upon hearing the amount he paid her, he paid her #30, 000 for the whole exam and this was when i knew something was wrong...
I shook it off and decided to ask him if his parents paid the money for him but his response shocked me as he said he paid it himself, i was shocked big time and this was how i started observing he is indeed from a rich family or he is into something shady...
After some time, i found out he was going out with one of the most expensive girls in my class, and one day i witnessed them both coming out from a shoprite around and mehn, they had about 5 shopping bags in their hands and we greeted and moved out, this was where my suspicion was affirmed...
Same week i heard he broke up with her and i saw his new target was my crush in the center, that was how i decided to let him know about it, as a friend he was supposed to respect the fact that i genuinely liked the girl but guess what? he started oppressing me with what he had and was trying to get my crush's attention, she already knew the kind of person he was so she played along with him and ate his money a bit and still didn't give him a face...
This was when i decided to start letting him go slowly, i knew he was rich by his actions and appearance, he was dating different girls, he dated three different girls in just one month of whole external examination, he was paying off teachers for examination malpractice, he was using an iPhone 11, he wears expensive clothing, he dated the most materialistic girl in my class, he was always talking like money was never his problem and everything was confirmed when I heard he was an internet fraudster from a mutual friend of ours..
After finding and figuring out he was a rich dude at first, I thought of connecting more with him on a higher level but when i really saw him for be really was, i cut him off completely because he was a bad influence...
He made things worse by trying to toy with my crush's feelings even when he knew i had a soft spot for her but unfortunately for him, she was smarter than him and that was how he ended up with nothing...
In summary, i realized he has the power to influence the people around him into taking a step that might jeopardize their future if care is not taken, and as a friend to him, i might be forced to compete with him if i get too oppressed, this can end badly if this competition gets out of hand, that was why i slowly and carefully withdrew from our so-called friendship...
In conclusion, I took a very necessary step before things went sideways, and at the end of the examination, i got my crush and also dated her up until now we are still cool and so so together in love, this was the best gift waec gave me apart from results hehe...
Now Ahmed is where he is and i am where i am, i want to believe he is doing well, cutting him off was the best decision I made back then and i have never regretted it...
THANKS FOR READING...