I have always tried so much to avoid losing my friends or people I know. Apart from the inevitable death that comes to take our loved ones without questioning us. That’s natural. But I dislike seeing myself cutting bonds with people around me whom I already find myself used to. It's always a great pain to overcome.
I remember some time when I got admission into the university to study Agriculture. I was with my brother in his final year. And after which i had to be on my own when he graduated.
There is a family friend that lived in the same city but a little distant location from the school area. So at times i would have to go visit them maybe on holidays or weekends. I don't know any of them before, but through the influence of meeting my brother on his final year i was able to tag and get along with them.
Of all the children in the family, they are about seven boys, i could only get so close to one of them who happens to like me than others and also found himself attached to me.
Though he was way younger than me, but that wasn't a reason not to get close, i opened up to him so much to the extent that every means by which i earn online he was also interested and i guided him on how to do it. The bond even got so strong as time passed by.
At some point he decided to study the same course I studied. He opted as a student of Agriculture and was so passionate about it. We had a lot of discussions about the future and how we were going to practice farming to the fullest.
Humans would remain humans. And so this disastrous incident happened between both of us. I never saw that coming. We’ve been together for over three to four years without any problem. Even when we disagree on something we get to settle it amicably.
There was a time when i showed him a platform where he can earn a good amount of money. Which he did. Then at some point he was about to withdraw the money and then I asked him to bring his account or his brother's account. But he was scared to receive the money. He never wanted his brothers to know he had such money.
I wasn’t fine with his decision and I don't want to spend his money. So i had to agree we loan it out to someone and then get it back when it ripes. He agreed.
But before the agreed date he started acting up that he needed his money immediately. He changed everything and turned the case upside down trying to label me a scammer and a thief in front of his parents and brothers he didn't want them to know before. I explained myself, but to no avail.
No one in the family listened to me. All they wanted was their child's money. I was forced to get the money back and pay it. But a price was paid for such an act. They never expected me to pay the money at the time I did. I felt betrayed and then his parents asked not to get closer to their son ever again or even step a foot inside their home.
And since that very day I had to keep my distance and also cut off everything related to this friendship with him. I got my heart broken for months before I could recover. But at the end of it all I learned my lesson and moved on with life.
