Turning a new leaf? Hmmm.
I have gone through many stories and read about how they turned a new leaf.
Not like I don't have bad habits or some things that are not proper that I have dropped there are plenty. But the story you are about to read will be kind of different.
So there is this guy Daniel (I have mentioned him in one of my nonfiction posts before).
Daniel stayed with me and my friend in school once when he was helped by my friend's senior brother to get a place for some time. He squatted in our house with us and ever since he has found a way to always come back for one reason or the other.
Daniel has always had a problem with me which is only known to him, he never really liked me. And with every time I have spent with him my dislike for him grows too.
So one day Daniel was at our neighbor's house, and he stayed at this guy's house most of the time. I had already told my friend that I didn't like the way he went to our neighbor's house to stay over because he stole from us that he stayed with.
That night I was trying to read for my test the next morning when our neighbor came into our house. I noticed something was wrong with his facial expression and on a normal day he would make jokes the moment he walked in.
He just sat on the corner of the bed frowning and pressing his phone.
“Did Daniel come here and cook noodles this night?” he finally broke the silence.
“Ummm…” I tried recollecting because I wasn't concentrating on what was happening around me due to my devotion to studying that night.
Finally, I remembered that at a time I could perceive noodles from the kitchen.
“Yes," I replied to him and went back to studying. He then left shortly after.
My roommate came back and told me that Daniel and our neighbor had a brief argument, he said that our neighbor accused Daniel of taking his noodles but they resolved it when Daniel said he went out and bought it from a store which we were all familiar with the owner.
The next day I went to the owner and asked her and she said Daniel hadn't come to her store throughout the day.
I wasn't surprised, Daniel stole and lied, and since the case had already died down I said nothing about it.
Lately, I and Daniel have been talking more than usual, and just last week I saw a Whatsapp post he made captioned “Return bad with evil,"
I replied to his story telling him that life wasn't meant to be like that and we entered an argument.
That argument lasted for so long and I tried to see if I could get him to turn over a new leaf but it ended up with me telling him that
“If it was like that then there would be no one to do good and it would just go on like that,"
And he replied to me;
"I have been there before I know what am talking about,"
I got slightly angry and replied;
"Who knows maybe it is the bad that you have done that is returning evil to you,"
And he replied;
“Then the circle will not stop,”
So just like that, that is where the conversation ended because I was tired of trying to convince him. I wasn't and don't think I will be able to change him but I hope and pray someone or something will make him see from a better view.
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