Actually, people closest to us can be our biggest strangers.

Life is loaded with ups and downs, distrustful people and their attitudes, many are easily derailed from whom you had known them to be into misleading behaviors by what they heard from others or whatever they have seen happen to someone or at some places. People do determine to change to become better or the worst element than one ever thought could happen.

Some people doesn't even have emotions... Yes, I have noticed such along life's journey.

All of the things we do in life begins from our hearts. When our hearts have decided a change from whom we used to be into who we want to be, every part of our members will follow suit to achieve the particular goal. Every step takes place first from the mind and the mindset, before anyone else can acknowledge it.

I was really shocked sometime ago when one orphan that has nobody and was helped through life and through higher education now has become a little better than where life had kept him literally told the uncle who helped him get where he has seen himself,

"is it mandatory to help back?, did you not choose to help me?, it was your choice, so don't make a brag about that. Heeeeeh, haaahaa.....🤔🧐.

"it was your choice and never mandatory that I would reciprocate, even when you my uncle is in dare need to be helped".

Wow oooo, this very statement or feedback as it seems, struct me hard, I was there contemplating, how?, who is talking?, is this not this helpless rechard orphan boy that was trained through school and about every aspect of his life?, how come he has this stingy character and mindset?

This senerio shocked me to my bones....,life and attitudes are unpredictable.... That's my conclusion.

It calls for carefulness about who we decide to give all that we have, or most of our stuffs, attention and our sincere helps in order to stand up in life, so that they will not stand up to drag their helpers into the moud, or to the ashes on the ground of life.

He segregated his uncle's family, never comes there or calls anyone on phone, in the name that he has arrived. He impregnated a girl, wedded her in a Catholic Church crowd wedding, absolutely without informing his uncle

I clearly remember him begging the uncle few years ago to pay his school fees or send him money for food and some school stuffs, now hear him out and hear his decisions, mindset and vabal dispositions...

"it's not mandatory to respond positively to those that helped you out from difficulties, when your condition has changed for the better or for the best he said openly"

Can you imagine that kind of mindset? Very shocking and unbelievable but that was #how he had decided to reward his lifters and burden bearers that saw him through thick and thin....

Till tomorrow, he still believes and maintains he owes nobody anything, even when it looks like the uncle needs that relationship to thrive to higher grounds, he is very far away from thinking or doing such at all, he now has a family of his own, his wife and children have toed his foot prints on the sand of time.

This is my story of rewarding evil for the goods done to a family relation that's an orphan, lonely, rejected, knowing not what to do about life or where his next meal was coming from, a situation that had been for so many years before his uncle showed him some kindness, some benevolent by sending him to the higher institution ; he now graduated, doing business , balanced in life and decided and behaving otherwise. He studied at,

"Abia polytechnics", his uncle paid all his fees and feeding for 4 good years of study.

This is his reward for all the goodies done to him.

This is my response to this prompt #10.

"People closest to us can be our biggest strangers""

This is my first content in this community, #realtalk,
hoping to be accepted.

Thank you every member of this community and more especially, the admin and his team members, thank you for the good jobs we have received and are enjoying.

The picture is mine.

@ijebest.